Rona S. Bartelstone is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, a Care Manager Certified, and a Diplomate in Clinical Social Work.

A Cum Laude graduate of the University of New York at Buffalo, Rona earned her Masters in Social Work at Indiana University. She has taught the psychology of aging, healthy aging and other courses on coping with aging parents for adult education of the Dade County School Board, Miami Dade Community College, and Broward Community College.

Also, she has taught at Nova University in their Master Degree Gerontology Program, and at Florida International University, Graduate School of Social Work on Geriatric Care Management. She is also involved in extensive training and consultation in the area of aging, caregiving and programming for chronic care needs.

Active in many community and professional organizations, Rona is a founder and past President of the National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers (GCM). She currently is a founder and Vice President of the National Academy of Certified Care Managers (NACCM), an independent, non-profit, credentialing organization.

Rona was a Board member of the Greater Miami Alzheimer’s Association Chapter and Chaired the Annual Educational Forum from 1994 to 2000. In addition, she is past Vice President and Treasurer of the Florida Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers. Rona is a member of the National Council on the Aging and a delegate to the National Institute on Community Long Term Care (NICLIC), the Gerontological Society of American and the American Society on Aging for which she’ll be co-chaired the International Care/Case Management Conference in 2001.

She is a regular presenter at the national and international conferences of these professional associations. Furthermore, she is on the Editorial Board of "The Case Management Advisor". Rona has been a regular contributing author to numerous professional publications. Rona has worked with the Florida Department of Elder Affairs on a Task Force to develop an Ethics Curriculum in long term care.

Rona was named Social Worker of the Year in 1983 in Dade County, as well as the recipient of the Women’s Committee of 100 Trail Blazer’s Award in 1984. Moreover, she has been listed in Who’s Who Among Human Services Professionals since 1988 and in Who’s Who of American Women since 1990. She received the Up and Comers Award in healthcare from Price Waterhouse and the South Florida Business Journal in 1990. Rona is also a member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers and the NASW Register of Clinical Social Workers.

Rona has also been featured in many media articles about geriatric care management, including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Forbes, Money, Health, Working Woman, Ladies Home Journal, the NBC Nightly News, ABC World Wide News, Your Financial Future with Jonathan Pond, and Healthy Living with Dr. Joyce Brothers.

Recent Honors
Elected as a recipient of the “Women of Excellence” registry of the National Association of Professional & Executive Women

For more information on any of the above and how we can help you, please contact:

Rona Bartelstone Care Management & Home Healthcare
phone: 1.800.678.7224
email: rbartelstone@rbacare.com