As the fourth-generation of a family of long-term care providers, it was probably inevitable that Phil Fogg Jr. would devote his life to serving seniors. His great-grandmother was one of Oregon’s pioneers in the profession, and by the age of only 13, he was already working in his father’s facilities—doing laundry, washing dishes, making beds or whatever else was needed. “It felt like my second home,” he recalls, “and the residents became like family.”
Almost immediately after his college graduation, Phil formally entered the profession as an administrator, then regional manager at his father’s company, before finally stepping out on his own. Even with dire financial challenges facing providers in Oregon, he started Marquis Companies in 1989, and assumed the management of his first skilled nursing facility. It was a challenging but ultimately successful turn-around project that’s still in the family today as Marquis Vermont Hills.
Since then, the organization he created has grown to become one of the Northwest’s premiere providers of senior care services, with more than 4,000 employees. Marquis owns and operates 22 skilled nursing, assisted living and independent living campuses in Oregon, California and Nevada, and also provides home health and home care services. Responding to opportunities in the changing health care environment, the company most recently launched AgeRight Advantage—a Medicare Advantage health plan, and AgeRight Clinical Services, which provides nurse practitioner services in skilled nursing facilities.
Phil founded its sister company, Consonus Healthcare, in 2004, and it now serves rehab therapy and pharmacy customers in 11 states, as well as offering a wide range of consulting services. Again in response to challenges facing long-term care providers, he led the profession in the creation of the innovative Co-Pilot data analytics solution, which helps facilities demonstrate their patient outcomes and quality of care to potential payors and referral sources.
Looking back on almost three decades of leadership and achievement, Phil’s measure of accomplishment has little to do with growth or revenue. Instead, he defines true success by the impact Marquis and all its corporate entities he had on the lives of those it employs and serves. “Our proudest achievement has been in creating a positive culture that promotes vitality in our residents, clients and staff members,” he says.
Throughout his career, Phil has been an active advocate for long-term care in Oregon, and an influential national voice in the nation’s capital. He is secretary/treasurer and an at-large board member of the American Health Care Association (AHCA), and a passionate champion for fair and predictable reimbursement systems, resident care quality outcomes and workforce development initiatives.
Phil is a Health Care Administration graduate of Concordia University, and earned a Master of Business Administration from the University of Oregon. He is board chair of the Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition, and has previously served as president of the Oregon Health Care Association and chair of AHCAs Strategic Planning Committee. In 2013, he was honored with the Association’s Joe Warner Patient Advocacy Award.
Phil’s life-long commitment to charitable causes, and a desire to bring greater meaning and purpose to the lives of staff, residents, clients and business partners, led to his creation of the Vital Life Foundation in 2008. Each year, the Foundation supports programs and causes focused on children and seniors, and its charitable partners include the Ronald McDonald House, Friends of the Children, Alzheimer’s Association, Wish of a Lifetime, Meals On Wheels People and the American Heart Association.
Outside the pressures of the office, Phil’s preferred leisure pursuits include treling, snow skiing, water skiing and racing cars. But his forite pastime these days is in simply spending time with family—and especially his grandchildren. With his three sons already working by his side at Marquis, they represent the possibility of a sixth generation of Foggs serving in long-term care.