Garden Place Prepares for Assisted Living Status with Two New Managers

COLUMBIA & MILLSTADT, Ill. – To help implement the new Adult Day Club programs and across-the-board Assisted Living status, Garden Place welcomes new managers, Tori Salladay and Tanya Schnarre, to two of its senior living communities.

“Both Tori and Tanya are great additions to our management staff,” said Kathy Asselmeier, RN and co-owner of Garden Place. “They bring a complementary set of skills and expertise that will enhance all three Garden Place community centers and allow us to bring added services and amenities to our residents.”

Manager at Garden Place of Millstadt since May 16, Tori boasts more than 25 years of long-term care expertise with specialties in adult-day programming, health-care administration and therapeutic recreation. Most recently, Tori spent nine years with Bethesda Health Group and worked at Missouri’s largest senior living facility, Bethesda Dilworth Community Home, which has 490 beds.

“Garden Place offers the opportunity to spend more one-on-one time with the residents; they are walking, talking history books,” said Tori. “At Garden Place, it truly feels like home, not just a group of rooms and people living together in the same building.”

One of Tori’s key objectives is to help build Garden Place’s new Adult Day Club services, programs designed to keep mature adults physically and mentally active within a community of peers.

“Typically, you see older people withdraw, but Adult Day Club programs can make a huge difference in the lifestyle of mature adults by improving memory retention and increasing their happiness,” Tori said.

Tanya boosts Garden Place’s capabilities by bringing more than 10 years of health care systems management experience. A CPR instructor and former sleep lab coordinator at Memorial Hospital in Belleville, Ill., Tanya will implement standardized admission systems and program procedures associated with Garden Place’s upgraded assisted living status. Tanya started as manager at Garden Place of Columbia on June 1.

“While I bring a range of system administration and organizational skills to Garden Place, I’m happier to have the opportunity to interact and work directly with the residents of Garden Place where my assistance is most useful in improving lives,” said Tanya.

For more information, contact Kathy Asselmeier at (618) 304-0952.