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Challenges Bring Opportunity: Pivoting your Community for the Future Through Expansion or Repositioning

Evolving consumer expectations, increased regulatory scrutiny, staffing challenges, the COVID-19 pandemic, and census declines are just a few of the myriad of challenges causing many senior living operators to recognize that status quo will not suffice. While incremental change can provide some improvement, often the solution requires a more comprehensive evaluation of your operations as well as what market you are serving and how you are serving them. Where to start? Learn from industry experts how a Project Feasibility Analysis can provide the clarity you and your Board need to assure success today and into the future.

  • Review the Project Feasibility Analysis Process.
  • Recognize how a Project Feasibility Analysis could benefit your unique community.
  • Describe the importance of aligning organizational and financial goals in the pursuit of an expansion or repositioning.

Tom Lemkuil, AIA, NCARB, Lead Project Architect, Community Living Solutions, Des Moines
Tom Lemkuil is the lead project architect at Community Living Solutions. He brings more than 19 years of experience in architectural planning and design, 11 of which are dedicated to senior living environments. He has worked on numerous senior living projects serving as a lead project architect. He prides himself in creative designs that are true reflections of the personalities that inhabit them. His goal is to create environments that are functional as well aesthetically pleasing.

Cory R. Rutledge, CPA, Managing Principal - Health Care, CliftonLarsonAllen, Minneapolis, MN
Cory Rutledge is a principal with the health care group of CliftonLarsonAllen (CLA), specializing in a variety of strategic, financial, and operational services for health care clients across the care continuum. Rutledge has 18 years of experience in providing professional services to health care clients. Over the course of his career, he has developed a passion for helping his clients flourish in a health care climate that requires providers to continuously reinvent themselves. In addition to utilizing his expertise to serve health care clients throughout the country, Rutledge is also a frequent speaker at state and national health care conferences.

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