FOUNDERS
Lisa Grod,
PhD candidate, MS CPG
co-founding partner
Lisa Grod brings a unique approach to geriatric care management, advocacy, and consulting services for health care organizations. She maintains licenses as a skilled nursing home administrator and an administrator for residential care facilities for the elderly. In 2007, she was a Governor's Appointee to open and operate the William J. “Pete” Knight Veterans Home for the California Department of Veterans Affairs. Her work in the healthcare sector, academia, and long-term care arenas emphasizes organizational leadership, team building, education, training programs, ethics and compliance, contract negotiations, operational oversight, reimbursement, and risk management.
Ms. Grod is a doctoral candidate in Organizational Leadership with a concentration in the Health & Human Services Sector from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. She holds a Masters of Science degree in Gerontology with a concentration in Health Services Management from the University of La Verne. Ms. Grod founded LWG & Associates to protect and act as advocates for our seniors.
Ms. Grod serves on the California Council of Gerontology or Geriatrics (CCGG) Policy Committee, the California Assisted Living Association’s (CALA) Rapid Response Committee, and the Southern California Piano Conservatory Foundation (SCPCF)
as Parliamentarian.
Carla Ford, Esq.
co-founding partner
Carla Ford recognized the significance of stressing compliance rather than suing care facilities after injury or death of loved ones from personal experience and she wanted to make a broad impact for positive change. In 2005, Ms. Ford was a lawyer working as an Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles when her mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Two years later, her mother entered the first of several nursing homes where she received varying levels of care and in 2009, she passed away.
In 2010, Ms. Ford joined Walmart Stores, Inc. as a senior director on the company’s environmental compliance team, where she led a California-based team of compliance managers who kept the Fortune One's 300+ stores in compliance with state and federal environmental laws. That experience showed Ms. Ford that effective compliance programs can prevent negative outcomes and improve the quality of services in every organization.
Ms. Ford is the general counsel for United States Veterans Initiative, a nonprofit organization that serves homeless veterans. Ms. Ford earned her Juris Doctorate degree at Georgetown University Law Center and she has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from Boston University. She is a member of the State Bars of California and Georgia.