Passionate people. Exceptional results.
Excelcare is a leading provider of short-term post-hospital rehabilitation and long-term and specialty care throughout New Jersey. We aim for excellence in everything we do, and it shows in our approach to care.
We are constantly setting new quality, service, and innovation standards, while remaining focused on our core mission - patient care. You can trust our facilities to provide the very best for you and your loved ones.
Meet the Team
Eli Frankel
CEO & Founder
As a veteran healthcare operator, Eli has a proven track record for balancing patient care delivery with operational efficiency in the senior healthcare space. He began his career in healthcare administration in 2008 working as a Licensed Nursing Home Administrator serving skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) in New York and New Jersey. In each facility, Eli quickly transformed them into fully-functioning, five star rated - stabilized assets. Eli’s strengths center on his analytical skills, fiscal prudence and his keen understanding of the operation. Elis' approach cultivates teamwork and respect while ensuring high quality outcomes. In addition to his work, Eli actively contributes to the community through various local charitable and community assistance organizations. He holds certifications as a Licensed Nursing Home Administrator and a licensed Emergency Medical Technician-P (EMT) in the State of New Jersey.
Nanci Vekios
Vice President of Strategic Development
Serving as Vice President of Strategic Development, Nanci has an extensive history of fostering relationships within the healthcare industry. Armed with a strong understanding of multiple hospital structures and systems, she has a history of overseeing multiple company representatives in a plethora of settings. Respect, determination, and compassion are some of the key characteristics preached by Nanci when reflecting on performance with her personnel. Strengths including communication skills, multilingual capacity, creativity, and an ability to bring atypical positive ideas to light have all contributed to propelling her career from a front-line Clinical Liaison to the imperative management position with Excelcare.
Diome Kramer, BSN, MBA
Vice President of Clinical Services
For the past 12 years Diome has worked at a skilled nursing facility that offers long-term care, sub-acute care, rehabilitation and ventilation therapy, palliative care and hospice. Diome began her career as a bedside nurse, became Unit Manager, Clinical Liaison, and for the last 3 years was the Director of Nursing. The promotions and the trust invested in her, were in response to her work ethic, reliability and her passion of empowering the staff. Diome, like many others, is a mother, a wife, a sister, and she has recently obtained an MBA degree. Her previous positions taught Diome how to become creative in resolving a multitude of issues, expected and sometimes unexpected, such as successfully guiding her team through the COVID-19 pandemic. The ultimate goal of her dedicated work, is simply to deliver the highest possible quality of patient care.
Sam Gottlieb, LNHA
Regional Administrator
Sam’s “Be There” approach has him traveling to each of the facilities to personally assist in leading the day-to-day operations. He prioritizes connecting with patients and staff with transparency and effective communications; assuring that everyone—patients and staff alike—feel like they are part of the Excelcare family.
Josh Raider
Chief Financial Officer
Josh joins Excelcare with an extensive background in medical field billing following his start in June of 2007. Strong performance and experience propelled Josh to advance to a supervisor position by 2009 before overseeing over 30 Skilled Nursing Facilities within a full time role assuming all payers and revenue streams. Josh holds himself, his clients, and their operations accountable by conducting AR meetings, managing audits, and holding operational meetings to communicate appropriately. Josh prefers a “hands on” approach evident by his move in 2013 to become controller of billing in house where he met with families and residents in person as opposed to remotely. His experience and work ethic has contributed tremendously to the early success of Excelcare since he joined the team in 2022. His unique point of view has assisted in the guidance of collection and billing processes for all financial endeavors. Josh’s interests lie in maximizing our ROI, overseeing expenses, and reviewing financial statements to promote accountability from our current vendors.
Maurice Duran
Vice President of Operations
You can count on Maurice to ensure that Excelcare staff provides you with appropriate and professional care and that you are treated with respect and compassion. Maurice is constantly interacting with our staff, our residents and their families. He is the consummate professional and is always looking to help out and share guidance and feedback. Under his leadership, Excelcare continues to set the standard of excellence in health care delivery.
Erick Venegas Campos, BSN
Vice President of Risk Management
A true leader at heart, Erick has worked in the healthcare industry for the past 7 years. Working in the long-term, sub-acute, and ventilator units, Erick has excelled professionally to provide high level care. Erick’s passion, work ethic and skills have allowed him to grow rapidly in the field holding various titles such as lead nurse, unit manager, wound nurse, and infection preventionist. His most recent accomplishment is serving as the director of nursing at a 5 Star facility. Dedication and commitment to outcomes have earned the trust of families and colleagues. Uprising and humble beginnings have contributed immensely to his attitude that no job is too big or small. A husband to a US Marine Veteran, Erick has a special heart for the care of those who served the country. Erick’s everyday goal is to oversee the safety of residents, families, and staff. Erick, like many other healthcare workers, battled through the COVID-19 pandemic with resilience and bravery.
Nikki DiPasquale
Director of Digital Media
In her role, Nikki leads Excelcare’s efforts to promote the facility on its social media channels. A communications professional with experience in digital communications, social media, and graphic design. She is responsible for creating content and distributing it in the best strategic way in order to meet our ambitious view targets.
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