Jessica Beaven

Jessica Beaven first got the chance to work in senior healthcare as an intern at the local hospital in Henderson. During her work at the hospital, she was told there was an opening as the marketing/social services director at a local senior care community, and with a marketing degree from Western Kentucky University, she jumped at the chance for an interview. She says at the interview, she was hired on the spot and started at Colonial Assisted Living in March 2010.

Once there, it didn’t take her long to learn she’d found her passion.

“I fell in love with the residents and the residents’ families,” she says. “I just felt that I was where I was supposed to be.”

She worked at Colonial Assisted Living until 2013. She then moved to St. Anthony’s Hospice and stayed on there until 2015, before returning back to Colonial. She worked as director of marketing and admissions until 2018, when she took a different position with Colonial, administrator. In summer 2019, she resigned to start working on and planning Homeplace of Henderson.

In addition to her work experience, Jessica is very active in the community. She is the co-founder of the Henderson Healthcare Network, serves as the media chair for the Sandy Lee Watkins Songwriters Festival, has been a community ambassador of Henderson Chamber of Commerce since 2010, has served on the board of POW! – Partnership of Women since 2018, and has served on the board of the Henderson County Senior Center since 2018. She is member of the Lions Club of Henderson and is past president of the Rotary Club of Union County.

She loves working with senior citizens because they value the small moments—giving them a shoulder to lean on, saying a kind word, visiting them at the hospital. By being able to give them these things, her own life improves. “They enrich my life by showing me the little things mean a lot,” she says.