A native of Pembroke, North Carolina, Tim Brooks is the President of HealthKeeperz, a family-owned business since its founding as Pembroke Drug Center in 1967. After earning his bachelor’s degree in health policy and management from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000, Tim joined the family business, re-christened as HealthKeeperz by his father, founder Howard Brooks, to reflect the company’s expanded mission to provide home-based health services for the people of southeastern North Carolina. Serving as the company’s Home Health Director from 2000 to 2004, Tim managed the company’s day-to-day operations of the HealthKeeperz home health and private duty home care lines. In 2004, Tim assumed the role of President of HealthKeeperz, further developing the company as a community-based health care organization featuring a spectrum of services to include home health, hospice, home medical equipment, private duty services, and the original pharmacy that has now served Pembroke and surrounding communities for 50 years.