Corporate Ladder

• Ashley ManorCare Centers (Boise, ID) has named Jim Shadduck divisional manager of operations for the company’s eastern regions and Robert Vande Merwe divisional manager for its western regions.

• Advocat (Franklin, TN) has appointed James Mills senior vice president/CFO. Mills joined Advocat in 1999 as corporate controller.

• Steven D. Bell & Co. (Greensboro, NC) has named Michael Bateman president for its Senior Living Services subsidiary that manages the company's assisted living communities.

• EdenCare Senior Living Services (Alpharetta, GA) says its president/CEO, Alfred Holbrook, was nominated as one of the top five candidates for this year’s Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Small Business Person of the Year award. The award was presented to Cliff Oxford from Support Technologies.