---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-25-012697"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NRC"
cik: "0000070487"
company_name: "NRC HEALTH"
filed_at: "2025-04-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T09:43:28.359157+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.45
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# National Research designates CEO Hays as interim PFO, appoints Freeman as CAO

## Summary
- CEO Michael D. Hays designated principal financial officer; will serve as PEO and PFO until Trent Green becomes CEO on June 1, 2025.
- Jordan N. Freeman appointed Chief Accounting Officer and principal accounting officer, effective April 18, 2025.
- No compensation changes were made in connection with either appointment.
- Freeman previously served in accounting leadership roles at Nelnet and as a senior audit associate at Deloitte.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-25-012697
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NRC
- cik: 0000070487
- company_name: NRC HEALTH
- filed_at: 2025-04-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.45
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/70487/000143774925012697/0001437749-25-012697-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/70487/000143774925012697/nrc20250422_8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-25-012697
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-25-012697.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-25-012697.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jordan N. Freeman was appointed as Chief Accounting Officer at NRC HEALTH.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: appointed Jordan N. Freeman as the Company’s Chief Accounting Officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/70487/000143774925012697/0001437749-25-012697-index.htm
- Executive change
  Michael D. Hays changed role as principal financial officer at NRC HEALTH.
  - Action: designated
  - Role: principal financial officer
  source text: designated Michael D. Hays, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, to serve as the Company’s principal financial officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/70487/000143774925012697/0001437749-25-012697-index.htm

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