Meet Our Senior Living Professionals at Discovery Village Deerwood

Janann Holt
Executive Director
Janann Brings over 30 years of experience to Discovery Village Deerwood. A trusted and accomplished leader in Senior Living and Senior Health Care, she has been recognized by Florida Senior Living Association as Executive Director of the Year in 2016 and was awarded the FSLA (Florida Senior Living Association) Leadership Award in 2021. She served on the Board of Directors for Florida Senior Living Association for five years. She is known in the industry for her strong leadership and team building skills and collaborative initiatives with other industry leaders. Janann began her career in healthcare as an intake coordinator in the Emergency Department, with the goal of becoming a Hospital Administrator someday. The excitement of the emergency department led her in a different direction. She became an emergency medical technician, working the night shift in the Emergency Department while attending nursing school, she worked as a nurse on a step-down progressive care unit in a hospital, she was a supervisor in a long-term care dementia unit; and worked for years in the home care industry before she found her niche in Assisted Living. Janann has three children and two fur babies; she is a Floridian and enjoys swimming, golfing, and reading.

Michele Dotts
Director of Sales and Marketing