Company sets sights on additional growth opportunities in 2025 and beyond
Greeley, CO – Colorado-based senior living community owner and operator, Ascent Living Communities (Ascent) has added a 52-unit, memory care exclusive community to its growing portfolio. Effective immediately, Ascent will serve as the operations and management provider for High Plains Crossing, formerly Windsong at Northridge. Ascent was approached by the community’s ownership based on its solid reputation for delivering outstanding operations and management, quality care and financial stability.
High Plains Crossing is the sixth operational community in Ascent’s expanding footprint and its first standalone memory care community. Following the addition, Ascent communities comprise more than 750 senior living units providing Independent Living, Assisted Living and Memory Care options through a care team of more than 500 professionals. Founded in 2008 and lead by Tom and Susie Finley, Ascent has grown its portfolio through a strong combination of ownership and operational/management across both new communities and partnership agreements with existing communities.
“We’ve worked incredibly hard to build our solid foundation of operational and care excellence while earning the trust of our partners and residents throughout our communities,” said Ascent Living Communities Founder and CEO Tom Finley. “We’re now in a strong position to expand our brand and reach through additional partnerships and collaborative agreements both in our home state and beyond. We see tremendous opportunities across the industry to bring our decades of experience and resources into communities focused on delivering the highest level of care and allowing our senior residents to thrive.”
As a memory care exclusive community, Ascent will implement its highly focused and proven Touchpoints Memory Care programming at the High Plains Crossing community. As a part of the enhanced memory care services, Ascent will be adding additional technology and data features into the community to help support health connections and services for residents and staff, including Cubigo and Lifeloop platforms.
“Touchpoints is a very well designed program that allows for increased clinical oversight and specialized memory care expertise that not only allows, but encourages residents, families and care partners to work collaboratively,” said Ascent’s Area Director of Memory Care, Amelia Schafer, a gerontology expert with 20-plus years of experience working across a wide range of Alzheimer’s and dementia education, program development, care and service delivery. “Touchpoints provides a nurturing environment in which residents are cared for based on their individual needs and a focus on life enrichment.”
Ascent will also implement a “community wide refresh” throughout the community that was originally opened in 2018. The refresh will encompass updated flooring and new furniture, fixtures and equipment throughout the community, as well as a “re-imagined” lobby space for residents, families and guests. The work is set to be completed in the spring with residents able to stay in their apartments throughout the process.
“Finding the highest, most trusted memory care living community with access to best-in-class resources has been a challenge for a growing number of people living with Alzheimer’s and related memory conditions, as well as the adult children searching for solutions for their loved ones,” said Ascent Founder and President Susie Finley. “For us, this was the opportunity to bring our proven, high standards, compassionate care model to northern Colorado and provide an A-list option for those needing memory care and their families.”
