Paramount Healthcare Consultants

Paramount Healthcare Consultants operates a group of primarily skilled-nursing facilities offering inpatient rehabilitation—and in some cases outpatient rehabilitation services—in Louisiana and Texas ([paramounthcla.com](https://paramounthcla.com/about-us/?utm_source=openai)). Based in West Monroe, Louisiana, their footprint includes locations in several Louisiana cities and at least one in Texas ([paramounthcla.com](https://paramounthcla.com/about-us/?utm_source=openai)).

The business was significantly shaped by Dawne Smith Barkley, who began with the company as a consultant in 1999, became full-time business office manager, then Administrator, and in 2008 purchased four nursing facilities. She later expanded the portfolio with acquisitions of eight additional homes in Texas during 2017 and 2018. She remains the owner and CEO ([paramounthcla.com](https://paramounthcla.com/about-us/?utm_source=openai)).

Their services extend beyond skilled nursing with inpatient rehab: they also operate outpatient rehabilitation services, an independent living property, assisted living properties, a specialized bariatric wing, and memory care units in some facilities ([paramounthcla.com](https://paramounthcla.com/about-us/?utm_source=openai)).

On another regulatory side, a 2022 SEC filing (from a different entity also named “Paramount Healthcare Consultants”) describes a consulting firm founded in 2008 that provides consulting to 11 healthcare facilities in Louisiana and Texas. That appears to be a separate corporate entity offering consulting services rather than direct operations of nursing homes; it is unclear if this is the same as the operator chain ([sec.gov](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1782430/000149315222007851/forms-11.htm?utm_source=openai)).