Terry Dandy
CEO/Administrator

Terry has served as Administrator/CEO since 1990. He has been involved in the senior healthcare field since 1978. He earned a degree in healthcare administration from Des Moines Area Community College, Des Moines, and a liberal arts degree from Iowa Lakes Community College, Spencer. He has served as administrator at Hillside Manor in Glenwood; Salem Lutheran Home in Elkhorn; and Bartels Lutheran Home in Waverly.

Email: terry.dandy@stlukelh.com

Greg Meeter, C.P.A.
Chief Financial Officer/Controller

Greg has served as the St. Luke Campus controller since 1989. He acquired his Nursing Home Administrator license in August 2007. He earned a bachelor’s of arts degree in accounting from Dordt College, Sioux Center. Prior to joining the St. Luke family, he served as a certified public accountant for Winther, Stave & Co. LLP, in Spencer.

Email: greg.meeter@stlukelh.com

Kim Krause
Office Manager

Kim joined the St. Luke staff in 1995. She serves as office manager and the human resource contact for the campus.

Email: kim.krause@stlukelh.com

Georgia Wrightsman
Social Worker

Georgia, a licensed social worker in the state of Iowa, joined the staff of St. Luke in 1979. She earned a bachelor's of science degree in social work from Buena Vista University, Storm Lake. She serves as the campus’ full-time social worker.

Email: georgia.wrightsman@stlukelh.com

Nancy Mills
Director of Health Services

Nancy joined St. Luke Administration in 2003, bringing a wealth of experience with her in long-term care.  Nancy began her career in long-term care in 1986. 

Email: nancy.mills@stlukelh.com

Dale Meyer
Maintenance Director

Dale was employed as the maintenance supervisor in July of 1992. He has been a Certified Boiler Operator Grade I since 1993. He received his Class I Plumbing Contractor license in 2004. Dale served as the Building Project Manager for all three phases of Riverview Terrace, for Hillside Terrace and for the Aquatic Center addition at St. Luke. Dale overssees all plant operations at St. Luke, Highlands, Riverview and Hillside, as well as the two rental properties St. Luke owns and supervises a staff of six.

Currently, Dale is involved with Chapter #42 Iowa Association of Building Engineers and has been active with the group since 1993.

Email: dale.meyer@stlukelh.com

Becky Thong
Housekeeping Director

Becky joined the dedicated staff at St. Luke in December 1985, starting in the House-keeping department. She became the department supervisor in July of 2007 and manages a dedicated staff that provides services to both the Nursing Home and the Highlands facility.

Becky finds her job at St. Luke Homes & Services very rewarding and enjoys both the award winning team environment while providing outstanding services to all residents.

E-mail: becky.thong@stlukelh.com

Kay Meyer
Dietary Director

Kay has worked in health care in dietary since 1982 and has worked at St. Luke Homes & Services since September of 1990.  She took the food service 90-hour course in 1991 and was named Dietary Director in December of 1991.

Her duties include supplying meals to the nursing home, both Assisted Living facilities and the Highlands.  She plans the special and holiday meals, as well as the ordering for all of the buildings and supplying the pop and candy vending machines.  There are two sets of menus that are written each year.

Kay also does the scheduling and supervising of 25-30 staff.

E-mail: kay.meyer@stlukelh.com

Linda Manwarren
Laundry Supervisor

Linda has been with St Luke’s since October of 2007.

She grew up in Spencer, graduated from Spencer High School, and attended ILCC for a year. She and her husband have raised their family in Spencer, as well.

The laundry department at St. Luke’s consists of two full-time and two part-time employees. They launder the Nursing Home resident’s personal laundry and all of the linens used by this facility. They deliver clean clothes to the resident’s rooms daily, Monday through Saturday. They also stock nine linen closets daily.

Linda is responsible for maintaining a clean and efficient laundry department. She oversees a wonderful laundry staff, orders linens, keeps circulated linens in good order and carefully monitors the distribution of personal laundry to residents.

E-mail: linda.manwarren@stlukelh.com

Pastor Michael Sharp
Chaplain

Pastor Michael Sharp attended Concordia Theological Seminary and earned a Master of Divinity degree in 1982. He has served congregations in Logan, Iowa, Wathena, Kansas, Canton, Kansas and Spencer, Iowa.  In Canton, he served not only a parish but also a nursing home facility that the congregation owned. He earned 400 plus hours in Clinical Pastoral Education from Heartland Hospitals in St. Joseph, Missouri in 1989-1990. His passion is working with the elderly. Pastor Sharp's duties as a full time chaplain for St. Luke Homes and Services started on July 1, 2007.

His duties include conducting all worship services for the nursing home and two assisted living complexes, as well as conducting all Bible Classes. He conducts memorial services and does a great deal of bereavement counseling with the families of our residents. Pastor Sharp keeps busy with attending all of the department head meetings at St. Luke and working with the residents and staff on all of the campuses of St. Luke's in Spencer.

Pastor Sharp finds the work quite intense, but very satisfying.

E-mail: michael.sharp@stlukelh.com