Leadership

SolAmor’s goal is to offer support and improve the quality of life for all patients who are diagnosed with a terminal illness. We are passionate about treating each patient as though he or she were our own family member and firmly believe that no one should die alone.

Listed below are some of our senior team members.

Glen R. Cavallo is president of SolAmor Hospice. Since entering the healthcare arena in 1988, Glen has served in many capacities in home health and hospice including overseeing privately-owned, regional organizations as well as subsidiaries of national publicly-traded corporations.

Prior to taking the reins of SolAmor in September 2006, Glen was hired to lead Medshares out of bankruptcy which he and his leadership team accomplished in July 2003. Prior to that, he helped develop Beverly Enterprises’ hospice company and also oversaw their infusion therapy, home health and private duty companies.

Glen received his B.A. in sociology from Duquesne University in 1980 and is married with three grown children.
Karen Lindstrom, vice president of clinical and regulatory affairs, has spent the majority of her career in home health and hospice in a variety of clinical, management and administrative positions. Since joining Sun Healthcare Group in October 1997, she helped develop the home health division and provided compliance, regulatory and clinical expertise to the home health division as well as the home pharmacy, mobile laboratory and radiology subsidiaries. She served as the vice president of compliance for those divisions from October 2001 to December 2006 at which time she accepted her current position with SolAmor Hospice.
Karen received her B.S. in physical therapy from California State University, Northridge and obtained an M.B.A. from the University of Redlands in 1995. Karen is married with two grown children and lives in Glendale, CA.

David Cwiertnia, vice president of finance for SolAmor, joined the Sun Healthcare Group family in November 1998 to help consolidate Sun’s Part B durable medical equipment programs. He served Sun in various roles before becoming SolAmor’s CFO in March 2007.

David brings a diverse financial background to SolAmor with experience in nursing home accounting/cost reimbursement, home medical equipment, mail order respiratory and diabetic supplies, contract therapy and durable medical equipment for nursing homes. He received a BA in criminal justice from University of Arkansas in 1992 and a BS in accounting from Arkansas University in 1995.

As vice president of human resources, Cathy Anwyl’s HR experience includes four years in retail before transitioning to an acute care/hospital setting. In that capacity, she had increasing recruitment and retention responsibility for a 270+ bed center that included multiple off-site clinics. She joined the Sun Healthcare Group team in 1995 and has supported all the lines of business during her tenure. In her current role, she is responsible for providing HR support and leadership for SolAmor Hospice, SunDance Rehabilitation and CareerStaff.

Cathy received her BS in Retail Management and Economics from Russell Sage College in 1980; she currently resides in Dallas, Texas.

Fred Schmidt, MIS field services manager, has more than 13 years of experience in information technology and project management. During his nine years with Sun Healthcare Group, he has been the project manager of many large IT projects for their nursing home, home health, pharmacy, staffing, therapy, laboratory and radiology lines of business. Fred is a PMI-Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE).