---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-22-141356"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SNDA"
cik: "0001043000"
company_name: "SONIDA SENIOR LIVING, INC."
filed_at: "2022-05-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-25T23:16:43.458979+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sonida Senior Living appoints Howard Garfield as Chief Accounting Officer, adds CFO and Director of Financial Reporting

## Summary
- Howard Garfield appointed VP and Chief Accounting Officer effective May 1, 2022; previously CAO at CorePoint Lodging.
- Kevin Detz started as CFO on May 1, 2022, alongside Garfield and Debbie Milligan.
- Debbie Milligan named Director of Financial Reporting, also from CorePoint Lodging.
- Hires follow strategic capital raise in November 2021 to strengthen finance and accounting.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-22-141356
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SNDA
- cik: 0001043000
- company_name: SONIDA SENIOR LIVING, INC.
- filed_at: 2022-05-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1043000/000119312522141356/0001193125-22-141356-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1043000/000119312522141356/d340329d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-141356
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-141356.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-141356.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Howard Garfield was appointed as Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer at SONIDA SENIOR LIVING, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: On May 1, 2022, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Sonida Senior Living, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Howard Garfield, CPA, as Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer of the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1043000/000119312522141356/0001193125-22-141356-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.