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Paul Contris Arizona founded Mission Healthcare LLC in May of 1997, bringing with him higher than a decade of experience within the long-term care industry.

In 1982, Paul Contris Az earned a bachelor�s degree in accounting from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash., graduating summa cum laude. He worked for Ernst & Whinney (now Ernst & Young) being a certified public accountant in the company�s audit division before joining Hillhaven Corporation in 1983. He served as Hillhaven�s acquisitions analyst and was instrumental in expanding the organization, which at the time was the second-largest long-term care system in the united states.

Paul was then recruited by Samaritan Health Systems (SHS), a hospital chain located in Arizona, to serve becasue it is chief financial officer in charge of creating a long-term care subsidiary called Samaritan Senior Services. Under Paul�s leadership, Samaritan Senior Services grew to incorporate 22 long-term care facilities.

After eight years with SHS, Paul helped found a new long term care company called SunQuest HealthCare Corporation, which grew in to a multi million dollar company that went public in 1995 underneath the new name Unison HealthCare Corporation. In 1996, the company�s ownership altered, and Paul worked as the executive vice president of acquisitions and new company development until 1997.

Paul Contris Attempting to continue working in the long term care industry, Paul began Mission Healthcare with Evergreen Terrace Healthcare Center, located in Grand Rapids, Minn., as the company�s first community. Today, the company has more than 900 associates working in seven communities that offer quality services and gives a number of specialty care programs for example memory care and ventilator units (such as the largest Minnesota ventilator unit based in a long term care facility). Mission Healthcare also boasts several Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs certified facilities.