The experience of our staff contributes to the high quality care we offer.
Senior staff have made The Pines their personal mission.
The mission-driven goals of The Pines cannot be reached without senior staff who approach their jobs as more than a way to earn a living. Look at the tenure of The Pines staff and their record of customer satisfaction. When you do, you’ll feel comfortable asking for more information about vibrant living in a college community.
“Having long known about The Pines before moving here, it was still a pleasure to discover the high level of respectfulness that characterizes The Pines. The respectfulness extends across and to all levels - staff, employees, residents. It creates a very comfortable atmosphere in which to live and, I imagine, to work. Furthermore, in addition to respectfulness, graciousness permeates our living here, and that is another genuine asset.” - a resident of The Pines

Vernon M. Baker
President/CEO
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Mr. Baker has worked in the senior living industry for more than 30 years. Before joining The Pines in March 2021, he was Executive Vice President/CEO of Williamsburg Landing, Inc. in Williamsburg, VA. From 2002 to 2017, Mr. Baker was the Administrator of Dogwood Village of Orange County, a senior living community in Orange, VA, which provides long-term nursing care, rehabilitation services and assisted living. Earlier in his career, he served as Senior Vice President of Operations at American HealthCare, LLC, in Roanoke, VA and in the years prior, was an Administrator in facilities in Charlottesville and Brookneal, VA . For nearly 20 years, he served on the Board of Directors of the Virginia Health Care Association/Virginia Center for Assisted Living, including as Past Chairman. Mr. Baker is a graduate of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Education in 1987 and completed all course work for a Master of Science in Education.

David C. Rainey
Vice President, Assistant Secretary & Director of Financial Services
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Mr. Rainey is licensed by the State of North Carolina as a certified public accountant and is licensed by the State of North Carolina as a Nursing Home Administrator. He has served as The Pines’ Director of Financial Services since May 1988. Prior to working with The Pines, Mr. Rainey worked as a bank officer in the Financial Accounting Services Department of First Union National Bank for three years and as an auditor for Arthur Andersen & Company for three years. Mr. Rainey has a B.A. in Psychology from Davidson College and a B.S. in Accounting from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has served on the Finance Committee of the Lake Norman YMCA and Davidson College Presbyterian Church and is a member of the North Carolina Association of Certified Public Accountants and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Mr. Rainey has served as Assistant Scoutmaster for Boy Scout Troop Number 58 in Davidson.

Karen Frazier
Assistant Director of Financial Services
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Mrs. Frazier is a certified public accountant. She has been employed by The Pines since May 2014. Prior to working with The Pines, Mrs. Frazier worked as a consultant for Monaghan Group, a division of CliftonLarsonAllen LLP and worked for six years as CFO for Winston Packaging. Mrs. Frazier received a B.S. in Accounting from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is a member of Davidson United Methodist Church and a member of both the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the North Carolina Association of Certified Public Accountants.

Judy Green
Director of Nursing
Mrs. Green joined The Pines at Davidson in 2011 as Charge Nurse for the Health Care Unit and was promoted to Assistant Director of Nursing in May 2012 and to Director of Nursing in 2015. She left The Pines in 2018 to work as a traveling nurse which gave her flexibility to spend more time with her family. In 2020, Mrs. Green joined the North Carolina Division of Health Service Regulation as a nursing home surveyor which involved passing a three-hour national exam on nursing home rules and regulations. She is returning to The Pines at our request, which reflects the confidence we have in her based upon her past work with us. She is a member of the National Association of Directors of Nursing Administration in Long Term Care and through that organization is recognized as a Certified Director of Nursing Administration in Long-Term Care, having passed a national exam and met certain Director of Nursing experience requirements. She studied nursing at Erie Community College and the State University of New York at Buffalo. Mrs. Green came to The Pines with twenty years of long-term care experience, having served as Director of Nursing at Meadowood Nursing Center in Gastonia, Assistant Director of Nursing and Staff Development Coordinator at Avante at Charlotte, Nurse Manager at Southminster CCRC, and ten years as a Nurse Manager at a CCRC in Getzville, NY prior to relocating to Charlotte in 2005. She also worked as a Hospice nurse for many years, but her love for the elderly redirected her path back to long-term care.