Who’s Who Hammer Residences’ Organizational/Membership Structure Hammer Residences, Inc. is a private, non-profit, tax-exempt 501-C3 corporation incorporated in the State of Minnesota. The on-going leadership and oversight of Hammer falls to the Board of Directors to fulfill. Board members offer strategy and direction but are not involved in management or tactics. The Board in turn hires a chief executive officer (CEO) and delegates management authority to this chief executive and his/her staff. The Board elects officers, creates policies and establishes committees as it sees fit to accomplish Hammer’s mission. John Estrem is our CEO. Under John is a team of 9 executive staff members. The organizational chart on the following page shows each department, the staff member’s name in charge and his/her staff within the department. Sue Walker is the Chief Program Officer. Sue manages the 7 Program Directors. Each of the directors supervise 7-9 managers who are responsible for the operation of a house or apartment. These managers have some direct care responsibilities as well. They each have 4-15 staff, called Direct Support Professionals (DSP) that are responsible for direct care. Tom also manages the Director of the Nursing team, Brandon Eddy. Brandon supervises the four nurses who provide care to those we support.
Management Model
Individual we support Direct Support Professional (DSP) Program Manager Program Director Chief Program Officer – Sue CEO – John Hammer Board