An assisted-living company recently fired one of its top administrators after a resident death in Iowa resulted in a care facility being cited for numerous violations and its license being downgraded to conditional status.
State records indicate Natasha Kanealy, 39, began working for Jaybird Senior Living, also known as JSL Workforce Solutions, in July 2017, most recently as the company’s full-time regional director of clinical operations.
In 2025, the Iowa Department of Inspections, Appeals and Licensing inspectors visited one of the company’s facilities, the Parker Place Retirement Community, which is an assisted living center in Parkersburg. DIAL ordered Parker Place to stop accepting new patients, while also placing the facility’s license on conditional status. Parker Place was one of the businesses over which Kanealy had oversight responsibilities, according to state workforce records…