Lifespark CEO Named Finalist for 2017 Innovators in Health & Wellness Awards from Minnesota Business Magazine

Aug 22, 2017
Meaghan Puglisi
1-min Read

The Minnesota Business Magazine has announced its finalists for their 2017 Innovators in Health & Wellness Awards and Joel Theisen, RN, Lifespark CEO & Founder is one of three Minnesota executives named finalists for the Health Care Executive Award. “I’m honored to be counted alongside Siyad Abdullahi, President and CEO of Informed Health Systems, and Andrea Walsh, President and CEO of HealthPartners – two healthcare innovators well respected in our industry. Congratulations to both of them.”

Other Articles

News

Lifespark Earns Meaningfulness Award and Top Workplace for Minnesota

June 12, 2025 Meaghan Puglisi

Lifespark has been awarded a Top Workplaces 2025 honor by Minnesota Top Workplaces and for the first time, the Meaningfulness Award. This award is based on scores in response to the question “My job makes me feel like I am part of something meaningful.” This feedback from employees determines all special awards and because it’s […]

News

More Senior Living Operators Embrace Pharmacy Services to Improve Care, Revenue

May 27, 2025 Meaghan Puglisi

In a Senior Housing News (SHN) article, Matt Kinne, Lifespark Chief Operating Officer, sat down with SHN reporter, Austin Montgomery, to talk about how Lifespark has embraced geriatric pharmacology within its community and senior living settings and if revenue and improved care is something we are seeing. In 2021, St. Louis Park, Minnesota-based Lifespark acquired […]

News

How to Cut Emergency Department Overuse with Community Paramedicine and Urgent In-Home Care

May 5, 2025 Meaghan Puglisi

In this opinion piece by Joel Theisen, Lifespark CEO, that ran on the front page of Emergency Medicine News, Joel, a nurse by background, calls out the overuse that is occurring in emergency rooms, especially for seniors, and what we can do about it. “It’s one of the most frustrating—and costly—signs of a health care […]