Meet Our Senior Living Professionals at TerraBella Sugarloaf

Leslie Frisch

Executive Director

Leslie Frisch, Executive Director, brings over 25 years of senior living and operational leadership experience to TerraBella Senior Living. A highly experienced leader with a proven track record maintaining compliance, building strong teams, enhancing the resident experience, and producing strong margin growth, Leslie looks forward to serving our senior population at TerraBella Sugarloaf.

Prior to joining TerraBella, Leslie managed many levels of real estate and senior living communities, operating in LTAC Hospital, Rehabilitation Hospital, Skilled Nursing, Assisted Living, Independent Living, Memory Care, Hospice Care, and Private Duty facilities. She holds a Bachelors in Psychology from Loyola University as well as an MBA and NHA certification.

Raised by her grandmother, Leslie’s spirit of service for seniors stems from a young age. In her free time, she enjoys reading and spending time with her husband, children, and grandson.

Bianca White

Senior Lifestyle Counselor

Bianca White has a true passion for working with seniors. She is honored and proud to help seniors and their families feel secure and confident in their choice of a senior living community. Raised in Alpharetta, she studied Business Administration at the University of North Georgia. She recently relocated to Dawsonville, GA with her spouse and puppy. In her spare moments, she enjoys spending time cooking new recipes, being outdoors, and having fun with family!

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Donna Toro

Director of Health & Wellness

Donna Toro is the Health and Wellness Director of TerraBella Sugarloaf. Donna has 30 years in Nursing experience including 10 years Geriatric experience. Prior to working for TerraBella Sugarloaf, Donna experienced travel as a Corporate Resident Care Director before settling home in Georgia.

Donna has five children, and eleven grandchildren with her spouse. She currently lives in Auburn, Georgia. Donna relocated from Cary, NC. Her home state is Baltimore, MD where she worked for John’s Hopkins Hospital Emergency Department for several years.

Donna enjoys being a nurse and spending time with family, mixed genre of music and reading.

Sharon Dodgen

Business Office Manager

Sharon Dodgen serves as the Business Office Manager at TerraBella Sugarloaf. Sharon brings over 27 years of senior living experience to TerraBella and joined Discovery Senior Living in March of 2017. After relocating to Flowery Brach, GA in October of 2019, she joined our Sugarloaf community. Sharon has a 23-year-old son in college in Orlando, FL and in her free time, she enjoys spending time with her sister, niece, and two dogs and cat.

Henry Mercado

Culinary Director

Henry Mercado serves TerraBella Sugarloaf as Culinary Director. A native of Puerto Rico, he began his career in senior living and has remained in the industry for over 13 years. He began his career as a server before working his way up to Director of Culinary. Henry feels honored to cook for TerraBella’s residents and loves working with each and every one of them.

Justice Maclean

Maintenance Director

Justice Maclean was born and raised in Ghana and moved to the United States in 2002. Prior to that, he lived in Europe and in the Middle East for 14 years. He has worked in senior living for 14 years, working in facility maintenance. He loves working in senior living because he has a passion to serve seniors.