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Oakland Care is a luxury care home provider in the South of England, with nine homes and a pipeline of further homes in various stages of development. Joanne has worked in care since the age of 18, starting her career as a care assistant, before training to become a registered nurse, working in a range of roles in primary care and secondary care. Since gaining her MBA health executive, for the past 13 years, she has worked solely in adult social care for a range of providers, the most recent before Oakland being Sunrise Senior Living/Gracewell Healthcare where she was senior director of care and quality for six years. Joanne was awarded a British Empire Medal for services to social care in 2021 She has a particular interest in sustainability.