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Tealwood Care Centers Partners With Silverchair Learning Systems and Swett & Crawford

Silverchair and Swett to provide custom training courses, comprehensive Learning Management System

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., July 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Tealwood Care Centers, a leading senior care organization headquartered inBloomington, Minnesota with facilities inMinnesota,South Dakota,Iowa, andNebraska, has partnered with Silverchair Learning Systems and Swett & Crawford to implement a comprehensive eLearning program for the organization.

Tealwood Care Centers is a longtime client of Swett & Crawford, a leading insurance underwriter in the Senior Care Market. Silverchair and Swett have formed a strategic partnership to provide exclusive training content managed by Silverchair's Learning Management System technology.

"We are thrilled to have Tealwood Care Centers on board with us," says Shane Kramer, VP of Business Development for Silverchair Learning Systems. "They are an organization dedicated to fulfilling the needs of their residents and we look forward to our role in helping them accomplish that mission."

Silverchair's Learning Management System is a highly effective, efficient, and affordable turn-key learning program that delivers, tracks, and reports on educational programs for senior care organizations. The program provides a complete curriculum of in-service and regulatory courses required by CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) and OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration), as well as important resident care topics that specifically address the needs of long-term care providers and their employees. The system can also be customized for an organization to include material specific to its facility/facilities.

"The day we were founded, we established lofty goals when it comes to providing care for our residents," says Gail Sheridan, Vice President of Health Services. "We believe that as an organization and as a staff, we must go beyond merely providing a safe and comfortable environment. We must meet the unique needs of our individual residents. As part of our mission, we are committed to having staff members who are skilled in providing services to the elderly and who are continually trained to improve the quality of care. We now have the ability to assign, complete, and track courses online. We'll also have access to course content that's specifically designed for the needs of organization thanks to our long-standing relationship with Swett & Crawford. Finally, the ability to author our own courses ensures that we have a consistent message across all locations. Silverchair is a tremendous enhancement to our program."

"We are very pleased Tealwood chose to take advantage of our partnership with Silverchair to enhance their internal training capabilities," says Mary K. Nolan, Senior Vice President of HealthCare. "We continually look for ways to bring our clients value added services with real world benefits. Effective online staff training is essential to a Senior Care providers' ability to deliver the highest quality of care possible".

About Tealwood Care Centers

Tealwood Care Centers, Inc. was formed in January 1989 as a long term care, for-profit company, dedicated to serving the needs of skilled nursing facility residents.

Our goals go beyond taking care of the resident's needs in a safe and comfortable environment. We are committed to meeting the physical, psychological, sociological and spiritual needs that are unique and vital to the elderly. Tealwood is founded upon the premise that to truly address patient care, the company and its staff must use the holistic approach toward addressing, treating and solving the health care problems of the elderly. www.tealwoodcc.com

About Silverchair Learning Systems

Silverchair Learning Systems works with senior care leaders who want to improve the training process in their organizations. Silverchair offers a user-friendly online training solution that improves compliance and eliminates record keeping headaches, while saving time and money. We make online training successful with easy set-up, ease of use, simple tracking, and educationally-rich yet fun courses. Using this system provides peace of mind and confidence. www.silverchairlearning.com

About Swett & Crawford

Swett & Crawford, headquartered inAtlanta, Georgia, is the nation's oldest independent wholesale insurance intermediary. The company is owned by its employees and two private equity firms, HM Capital Partners and Banc of America Capital Investors.

For over 94 years, Swett & Crawford has delivered exceptional expertise and service to the commercial insurance marketplace. Swett has been the leading intermediary of its type inthe United States for decades and has been voted "Best Wholesaler" by readers of the influential Business Insurance(C) magazine for the last three years.

In its national network of offices, Swett & Crawford serves independent agents and brokers through specialized Property, Casualty, Oil & Gas/Energy, Professional Services, Transportation and Underwriting Practice Groups. These groups provide access to commercial insurance products and programs, including property and casualty coverages, products liability, professional liability, commercial and public auto liability as well as a host of customized binding authorities and exclusive programs tailored to specific industries, businesses and professionals.

www.swett.com

Contact:

Mike Mutka

Executive Vice-President of Sales and Marketing

Silverchair Learning Systems

(866) 805-7575, x. 1813

mmutka@silverchairlearning.com

SOURCE Silverchair Learning Systems

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