Denise W. Warren

Denise W. Warren joined the Board in October 2018 as an independent director and was appointed Interim Chief Executive Officer of Brookdale in April 2025. Ms. Warren brings more than 30 years of operational, financial and healthcare experience. Most recently, she served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of WakeMed Health & Hospitals from October 2015 through December 2020, where she was responsible for the strategic, financial and operational performance of the organization's network of facilities in the North Carolina Research Triangle area. Prior to that, from 2005 to September 2015, Ms. Warren served as Chief Financial Officer of Capella Healthcare, Inc., an owner and operator of general acute-care hospitals, as well as its Executive Vice President since January 2014, and as its Senior Vice President prior to that. Before joining Capella, she served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Gaylord Entertainment Company from 2000 to 2001, as Senior Equity Analyst and Research Director for Avondale Partners LLC and as Senior Equity Analyst for Merrill Lynch & Co.

Ms. Warren currently serves on the Board of Directors of TruBridge, Inc. (formerly known as Computer Programs and Systems, Inc.), where she serves as Chair of the Audit Committee and a member of the Compensation Committee. She also serves on the Board of Directors of Newport Healthcare, Straive, and Virtusa, Inc.

Ms. Warren is National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Directorship Certified(TM) and received a Corporate Directors Certificate from Harvard Business School. Ms. Warren earned a B.S. degree in economics from Southern Methodist University and an MBA from Harvard University.