Dr. David G. Wolf is the Professor and Program Coordinator of the Health Care Management Program in the College of Business and Management at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida. Dr. Wolf graduated from Villanova University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Administrative Science and a minor in Accounting. He graduated Suma Cum Laude from Cabrini University, where he received his Master of Science Degree in Organizational Leadership and was awarded the Sigma Phi Omega National Gerontological Honor Society Medal for academic achievement. In 2012, he obtained his Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership with a concentration in Business Strategy from Eastern University in St. Davids, PA., also graduating with highest honors. He most recently graduated from the Seton Hall University School of Law, obtaining a Master of Jurisprudence degree in Healthcare and Hospital Law in 2018.
Dr. Wolf began his career in the long-term care industry in 1983 and purchased his first nursing home in 1990. He successfully grew his company and, at the time of the sale in 2000, his organization encompassed a 180-bed skilled nursing facility, 100-bed assisted living facility, a certified Medicare home health care agency, a nurse staffing agency, and an outpatient rehabilitation facility.
Dr. Wolf’s research specializes in long-term care quality improvement. He began his research by joining the team at Florida Atlantic University College of Medicine that created the INTERACT quality improvement program that is used in many long-term care organizations. He is currently the consulting subject matter expert for a National Institutes of Health research grant that will create a toolkit for nursing homes to deal with residents who are clinically obese. He is also serving on a research committee that is part of the “moving forward” coalition from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) that will create sustainable action plans based on the April 2022 NASEM report recommendations to reform long-term care.
David currently serves as the national Academic Board Member of the American College of Health Care Administrators and has been a certified nursing home, assisted living, and post-acute care administrator since 1988. He is licensed to practice in Florida and New Jersey.
