Biography and education
In November 2012 Todd was appointed executive director and Austin Market Leader for Brookdale Senior Living; he is a respected leader in health care and rehabilitation services. With Texas State since 2002, currently serving as an assistant clinical professor and the LTCA Program Coordinator
Todd brings to Brookdale a track record of success both as a healthcare executive and educator. Most recently he was with Remington Medical Resorts for five years, opening its inaugural rehabilitation facility in San Antonio, and later moving to Dallas as chief executive officer. Prior to Remington, Mackenzie spent 11 years at the helm of Deer Creek of Wimberley, where he built exceptional community support for his successful turnaround of a declining nursing facility there.
He was named Texas Health Care Association (THCA) Administrator of the Year in 2001 and American Health Care Association (AHCA) Future Leader of America in Long Term Care in 2007.
Mackenzie has also served since 2004 as an assistant clinical professor at Texas State University-San Marcos College of Health Professions. In 2014, Todd was named Director of the Long Term Care Administration Graduate Certificate program at Texas State.
Todd brings to Brookdale a track record of success both as a healthcare executive and educator. Most recently he was with Remington Medical Resorts for five years, opening its inaugural rehabilitation facility in San Antonio, and later moving to Dallas as chief executive officer. Prior to Remington, Mackenzie spent 11 years at the helm of Deer Creek of Wimberley, where he built exceptional community support for his successful turnaround of a declining nursing facility there.
He was named Texas Health Care Association (THCA) Administrator of the Year in 2001 and American Health Care Association (AHCA) Future Leader of America in Long Term Care in 2007.
Mackenzie has also served since 2004 as an assistant clinical professor at Texas State University-San Marcos College of Health Professions. In 2014, Todd was named Director of the Long Term Care Administration Graduate Certificate program at Texas State.
Teaching Interests
Research Interests
Featured scholarly/creative works
- Mackenzie, T. A. (2018). High Acuity Unit in SNF: Novel Program to Improve Quality of Care for Post-Acute Patients. JAMDA, the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association.
Featured awards
- Award / Honor Recipient: Best Executive Director Partner of the Year, Brookdale Senior Living. January 15, 2022 - April 15, 2022
- Award / Honor Recipient: Servant Heart Award, Brookdale Senior Living. March 11, 2020 - December 31, 2020
- Award / Honor Nominee: Teaching Excellence Award, SOHA. January 15, 2018 - July 15, 2018
- Award / Honor Recipient: Texas State University Favorite Professor, Alfred H. Noel Alpha Chi National College Honor Society. September 1, 2016 - December 15, 2016
- Award / Honor Recipient: Future Leader of Long Term Care in America, American Healthcare Association. January 1, 2007 - December 1, 2007

Featured service activities
- Member
THCA Advocacy and Legal Advisory Committee
- Member
WellCare Committee
- Member
WellCare Committee
- Participant
Alzhiemers Association Memory Walk
- Co-Chair
Douglan Ahrens MSDA Comp Committee
- Chair
Kayla M Dudley MSDA Comp Committee