Owners Linda and jim smith
Linda Smith is co-owner with jim smith and is the ceo president of legacy life care programs with donating her time , sharing job duties primarily as the managing director and administrator while serving clients she offers to counsel or coach. jim works in off site duties as the vp of operations and handles financials and maintenance and is the trustee officer over legacy life care programs, board of directors.
On a personal note Linda Smith lives with Jim in Tennessee with their two cockers, Cody and Kona. The couple have four children and several grandchildren. They often entertain their family members during all major holidays and gift exchanging and offer contributions and gifting which are expressed abound under neath their Christmas tree. Their grandchildren listen to the Bible story of the Manger scene and Jesus birth, as Linda's favorite Bible story is retold year after year. Linda's favorite meal of Christmas Even is Christmas brunch and the Christmas story.
The couple love gardening, improving their family home and supporting ventures with grandchildren.
Nonprofit Corporation Structure
Legacy Life Care Programs corporation began development over a period of several decades with incorporating the 501 c 3 organizational business in October of 2013. Previously the corporate structure had been a healthcare management LLP in Tennessee.
Credentials and Licenses
Linda holds a MMFTN-1814 license and is a certified counselor under direct site supervision of a licensed LMFT supervisor. Linda's past tenures took her through travels in nursing home administration throughout Tennessee and Florida as a long standing health care consultant and licensed NHA professional in health care practice. Linda keeps her nursing home TN NHA license, often taking short corporate jobs in Tennessee and has retired her NHA license in Florida.
Religious Affiliations and Community Work
Linda and Jim belong to a local congregational church locally, and Jim's volunteerism often has found him doing home office maintenance, new renovation refurbishments with Linda, or helping in the church affiliated food pantry, or working outside to assisted living and nursing homes while driving a van or helping with faciity based maintenance.
Practice Site and Home Office Relocations
Recently, Linda closed her outpatient mental health licensed agency practice and moved back to her home office site where she maintains counseling business donating her time to Legacy Life Care Programs. Linda also holds her administrator NHA directorship and is still licensed in NHA licensing in Tennessee. Relocation to the home office of Legacy Life Care Programs Linda volunteers with billings and client accounts, medical records audits and other daily administrative business as the Legacy Life Care Programs board of directors give recommendations.
New Direction at the Home Office Location
Legacy Life Care Programs offers a newly refurbished beautiful business reception area entry apart from the home living, and recently installed a newly refurbished restroom in the home office incorporating to it, a large foyer and admission site for new clients seen virtually or paying bills, needing records or needing transitional and wellness coaching.
Both Linda and Jim continue to be involved in supporting the corporate structure.
Corporate Roles
Jim takes an outside role as VP over operations, and is the co-owner of Legacy Life Care Programs serving as the Trustee over the Board of Directors. Jim does life safety, evacuation and maintenance at the home office ongoing. Jim also oversess financial solvency and pays bills, etc.
Linda is the official Agent over client base working and working with an outside bookkeeping and filing agent for the company filings each year. Linda assumes all site and staff training and training. Linda volunteers her time as the billing agent for helping clients billing needs, medical records, and screening, assessing and evaluations, or complaint issues when counseling clients or community needs.
On a Personal Note
Linda and Jim's favorite pass time is gardening, working in home upkeep, volunteerism and traveling during the holidays, often visiting their children or supporting a grandchild during a beauty pageant. Linda's favorite volunteerism is giving back to her family and community in different projects and outreach ministries.
Linda promotes her own self-care while fixing Christmas Breakfast brunch while sharing time and love with family and friends. Linda has two written novels, not yet published.
Degrees and Post Experience
Linda holds a post master degree as a graduate in Strategic Leadership and holds a post master degree in Marital and Family Therapies, specializing in Family Therapies
Jim has attended Trevecca Nazarene University and undergraduate completing three years of college courses. Jim served the local Columbia Fire Department as a training officer, captain and fireman/driver. Most pub ed was in schools for fire safety and how to escape burning buildings.
Linda holds a MFTTNMFT-1814 license for Legacy Life Care Programs under endorsement of her site supervisor, now is serving as the primary counselor volunteering her time to Legacy Life Care Programs while serving in this capacity under case management and partnering with a site supervisor who is currently endorsed in Tennessee as a site LMFT Supervisor.
Linda meets weekly with the site supervisor to discuss case oversight utilizing prefixed client identifiers for clients with upholding confidentiality and protections, completed with HIPPA compliance. Linda's profile can be found at our Legacy Life Care Programs and licensing division for the State of Tennessee, Licensing for Counselors and MFTS at the below link at TN.gov
Linda remains an active member with American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, TN Association of LPC and MFT, is Certified in EMDR, and Certified in Life Transitional Coaching working with career job satisfaction, grief and dying, transitional life changes while helping women to win and become an achiever in their life challenges.
Hospice Chaplain
Linda is a Hospice Chaplain and will visit nursing homes, group or assistant living or community settings and will work with the grief process for death and dying and after death supports.
Tennessee Public Notary Licensed and Bonded
If you need a State of Tennessee Certified Public Notary, you can book with Linda in after hours or weekends. Legal attorneys, banking institutions, community and senior homes, real-estate or financial copyright access notary is booked by appointment at legacyoflife16@yahoo.com
Please find Linda's profile and what Linda is focused on for individual, couples, family counseling on Gottman Therapy for Couples with Linda, Legacy Life Care Programs, is a member in good standing with the Tennessee Association of Marriage and Family Therapy.
Linda Smith invites you to visit our new training institute for Transitional Coaching at this website.
Linda's State Licensed Credentialing:
Linda holds a long-standing Tennessee Nursing Home Administrator license. Linda has been instrumental in supporting various health care facilities throughout Tennessee, Florida and Arizona. Linda serves on various corporate level positions as the regional administrator, and, or corporate liaison administrative support person in long term and assisted living and rehabilitative facilities. Linda has worked on a panel with other health care management and professional level consultants both throughout Tennessee and Florida, providing consultation to other specialists in the areas. Linda stands ready to offer expert consulting through out of network and in network adult care and subacute senior projects and supports. Linda is a Certified Social Worker consultant or licensed nursing home and assisted living administrator while working in other states from Oklahoma, middle TN, and East Tennessee areas, often staying on site locations to complete corporate goals with outside corporate entities.
Level of Expertise:
Linda holds a Master Level Degree from TSU-in Strategic Leadership and has helped stabilize survey health care nursing and subacute facilities with expert deficiency free outcome, has helped to move in new administrators into various facilities throughout Tennessee areas. Linda is capable of managing small or larger group or outpatient/inpatient mental health homes, nursing homes, assisted living homes, adult care programs while teaming a team through leadership. Through her initiatives, she has copy righted corporate evacuation planning, and thesis composites for outcomes and benefits to seniors for healthcare outcomes, was awarded districts and local health care providers for outstanding customer service awards and with awards for outstanding nursing homes while working at top corporate levels as a survey compliance officer.
Current Achievements:
2024=2025 Legacy Life Care Programs Mental Health Outpatient Agency Announcement
"LEGACY LIFE CARE PROGRAMS WON MAURY COUNTY THE BEST IN CUSTOMER SERVICE FROM MAURY COUNTY TENNESSEE IN 2024-2025!!"
During collegiate level awards, Linda won top accolades selected by faculty for "Who's Who Among Outstanding College Students in America". Linda recently won recognition for being nominated from North Central University with being selected from her peers and professors and the Association of The National Society of Leadership and Success for Spring/Semester 2020 recognition.
Linda has currently held several credits to her credentials. One statement made by our corporate President and CEO of Legacy Life Care Programs, when asked by one peer's quoted as saying, and Retrieved from Archives was credited as " being a corporate sought-after advantage, Linda has remediated several company's deficiencies and helped stabilize how staff retentions, and top-level corporate managed financials have influenced all who find outcomes beneficial results to their employees and staff doe solvency and success," identified by the unknown alias who prefers to keep their identity unanimous
New Refurbished Leader and Developer for State-of-the-Art Communities
Linda has designed courtyards, rebuilt skilled units, developed policy and procedures and opened the gateway to newly opened new state of the art facilities in Florida and throughout the middle and East Tennessee Areas-Contact Linda for corporate oversight today at 931-215-2182 for further assistance-ask for Linda
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