The partnership announced this week between Lifesprk and Tealwood Senior Living aims for a cutting-edge approach to senior living and care as the newly named Lifesprk Senior Living.
The merger brings the senior services of St. Louis Park, MN-based Lifesprk together with Minneapolis-based Tealwood Senior Living’s 35 senior living and skilled nursing facilities in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Howie Groff, president of Tealwood Senior Living, said that Tealwood’s strength has been operating a strong suite of senior living options with a holistic approach. Lifesprk, on the other hand, has offered a range of services to older adults, including home healthcare, hospice and hospital-at-home.
“This is a fundamental shift in how a wellness experience can be delivered where people live,” Lifesprk CEO Joel Theisen, RN, BSN, said. “The current senior housing market, accelerated by the pandemic, created significant opportunity to provide a markedly different approach to senior living.”
Both companies are in a good position to join their services under one system for the best outcome, he added.
“Both Lifesprk and Tealwood are well-positioned to seize that opportunity by joining forces to serve seniors more fully, connecting them to everything they need in one system to age magnificently and transform the way people experience senior living right now,” Theisen said.
Well-known Bill Thomas, M.D., Lifesprk’s independence officer, is a key architect in designing the holistic model that will drive Lifesprk Senior Living, the companies said. “The high level of health and medical services needed during COVID will not disappear, but it won’t, nor should it, go back to the way it was. It needs to be interwoven into the fabric of their well-being,” Thomas said in a statement.
