Jeny Conrad-Rendon is a Family Nurse Practitioner and is married to Keith Hollifield. We have 7 amazing children: Danielle is a Cosmetologist; Lauren is an Air Force officer; Jonah has a Bachelors degree in Biology, is an Assistant Manager of McAlisters and is a vet tech while waiting for a date for the Air Traffic Control Academy; Jarren is a Junior at UT Knoxville with a Physics Major with Minors in Astronomy and Spanish and has a gymnastics skill named after him (The Rendon); Jensen is in his first year of an electrician apprenticeship and an Eagle Scout; Jackson is a freshman at Bartlett High school and a two time National Men’s Gymnastics qualifier and won 3rd place in High Bar in the entire USA, and we adopted Maria who was born in the Ukraine, is in 3rd grade at Bon Lin Elementary and takes dance class. Two of our kids have special needs (Autism, Cerebral Palsy). Lauren gave us our first grandson, Lincoln.
Jeny got an Associate of Arts in 1997 and then started her healthcare career as a CNA. She got her BSN from East Carolina University in 1999. During the next 10 years she worked in Labor & Delivery, Oncology, Cardiology, Behavioral Health, Primary Care. Jeny got her MSN from UTHSC in 2009. She opened up a primary care clinic, Absolute Family Health, in 2010. She grew it to approximately 1800 patients over 5.5 years where she cared for ages newborn on up. She went thru the first four years without paying herself due to the insurance industry can hold on to reimbursement for as long as they desire. Instead she used the cashflow to work on paying off the start up costs, grow the business, pay her employees, pay payroll taxes and all the overhead. But she loved her patients so it was more than just about a paycheck to her. However she went thru a divorce and became a single mom to her four sons so after 5.5 years she decided to merge her clinic with a big hospital group. It was the most devastating time but she had to provide for her sons. Due to unethical things she encountered being done at this hospital group, she had no choice but to leave. Jeny then joined a company where she helped a company go from no van runs to approximately thirty a month within two years. But once again, she encountered unethical things occurring, so she had no choice but to leave. She then went back to work for the collaborating physician she had for her clinic but due to it being a small business, they were unable to provide benefits. During that time, Keith and Jeny adopted Maria and Covid-19 surfaced. Jeny decided that she needed to have a job with benefits due to Maria’s special needs. She then went to work for another big hospital group with hope that she could help them in any way possible. Jeny quickly learned that she only had so much say and it was a battle that she could not win. She struggled with the feeling that patients did not get the care that they deserved whenever she worked for other companies but yet didn’t feel that she could change that due to many factors. She decided to make a change and go into management to hopefully make a difference at that level in healthcare.
Keith had been asking Jeny to join with his personal training studio since he opened it. She finally decided to jump in but wanted to be able to provide the care that she felt patients deserved. Jeny refuses to rush patients in and out like the health insurance industry mandates due to their business practices. She is tired of the health insurance industry charging patients high monthly costs, having high deductibles, telling providers what is best for their patients, refusing to pay for services, and deciding when they would reimburse for services rendered. This is why Jeny decided that the concierge model of healthcare was the only way she could give patients what she felt they deserved and “Absolute Health” was born.