Our Team | Honeysuckle Senior Living

Jared Mangum DC, MBA – Administrator

Jared has nearly twenty years of business, service, and sales experience. Jared has an MBA in Healthcare Management and is a Chiropractic Doctor. He has proven ability to build, re-brand, and grow successful companies. He is highly motivated, a self-starter, and personable with the ability to lead and inspire his team. In addition to spending time with his lovely wife and five children, you can find Jared serving in various non-profit church callings, volunteering with the Boy Scouts, or spending time in the outdoors.

Koy Hernandez: Assistant Administrator

Koy is a Montana native who moved to Coeur d Alene ID, in 2012. He began his career in healthcare working as a Direct Support Staff providing in home care for adults with Developmental Disabilities. In 2014, he made the transition to caregiver working in Assisted Living facilities, that is when he knew he found his calling by caring for the senior population. He attributes much of his caring and kindhearted nature to his Montana roots, having ties to a large family that always cared for each other and others.

In 2018, Koy joined Honeysuckle Senior Living working on the floor as a Med Tech, then becoming Lead and eventually gaining the title of Assistant Administrator. With this position Koy has taken on a new journey in the world of Senior Living and is very excited for the future and the many opportunities that it holds.

Koy likes to summarize his experiences in senior care with a quote by Tia Walker, “Caregiving often calls us to lean into love we didn’t know possible.”

Stefany Silva Escobedo:Business Services Director

Stefany was born and raised in Peru where she received her bachelor’s degree in management and tourism. She has always had a passion for serving and helping others which led to many years of work in the hospitality industry before moving to the United States where she continued her career as a Front Desk Lead.

Now in North Idaho Stefany enjoys spending time with her husband, family, two furry babies and using free time decorating cakes. Stefany enjoys working at Honeysuckle Senior Living where she feels a great satisfaction in helping elders feeling cared for and appreciated.

Mark Testori RN: Wellness Director

Mark grew up in Connecticut and spent many years in the New England area. In 1983, Mark left New England and enlisted with the U.S. Navy and spent the next 8 years there serving as a medic. Mark enrolled in college while in the military and started taking courses to pursue his nursing degree. After being honorably discharged from the military he enrolled in a nursing program and earned his degree in 1996. Mark has spent time around the country as a traveling nurse and gained experience working in many hospitals in acute care settings. From 2012 to 2019, Mark worked in a very busy emergency department in Salem, Oregon doing critical care nursing.

Mark made the transition to Honeysuckle Senior Living in January of 2020 and was unsure of the experience he would have. Now he loves the path that he has set forth on! Enjoying every day with wonderful coworkers and caring for the best residents.

Mark and his fiancé, Ali, recently moved up to Idaho last October from Oregon and love all that North Idaho has to offer such as hiking, fishing, golf and traveling. Mark and Ali are excited to be tying the knot within the next year!

Troy Chandler: Dining Services Director

Troy has cooked professionally for 27 years. He grew up in San Francisco idolizing the great chefs of public television. As a kid he would take the bus to Chinatown and Fisherman's Market to buy ingredients that he would then take and practice creating meals for his family. This opened the doors to his culinary path. After serving four years in the Army, he landed in Portland where he cooked with great chefs for more than a decade. This led him to opening and running restaurants from Portland to Las Vegas.

His love of the outdoors, hunting and the desire to start a family brought him to North Idaho where he created and ran a resort restaurant as well as being a personal chef for golfing and vacationing celebrities.

Now retired from the busy restaurant industry, Troy has found a new culinary passion: creating great meals and memories for amazing residents. Plus, he now has the time to enjoy all that North Idaho has to offer with his family!

Tiffany Sparks – Life Enrichment Coordinator

Tiffany grew up overseas in the Philippines and South Korea. She is married with 3 grown children and 2 beautiful grandchildren. For over 20 years, Tiffany has worked in numerous areas of healthcare mostly working as a private In-Home caregiver. Part of that time was spent in Colorado where she worked as a firefighter and an EMT. She always found caregiving for the elderly to be her passion.

Tiffany joined Honeysuckle Senior Living in 2019 working on the floor as a caregiver. Throughout her time here she found herself using many of her skills contributing to life enrichment. Since being promoted to Life Enrichment Coordinator Tiffany has enjoyed much of her days with our residents baking, gardening and so much more.

Kirk Allender: Maintenance Director

Kirk grew up in California, he has a great son who works for Apple Inc. Kirk’s father was a pilot and he thought maybe he would follow suit one day, but he knew that deep down he had a passion for the medical field. Kirk worked as a surgery attendant at Peninsula Hospital in Burlingame, California where one of his greatest experiences was assisting the float nurse in the open-heart surgical room.

Kirk has lived in Hayden for over 20 years and enjoys many of the recreational opportunities that North Idaho has to offer. He spends much of his time with his girlfriend, hiking remote areas, walking his dogs along the lake, and playing tennis. Kirk has worked for Honeysuckle Senior Living since 2013; he’s worked for other facilities but says Honeysuckle beats them all!