Vita Case StudyVITAVita is an Italian word and when translated means life. Here at Vita we want residents and their families to focus on living a quality and fulfilled life. We will partner with you and your families to provide the support and services for everyday life.
Our Mission:The mission of Vita is to provide a nontraditional high-end concierge’s level of service focused on our residents and their families. Vita will support our resident’s individuality, privacy, and decision making abilities in a high-quality independent and assisted living retirement community.
To realize the Vita mission, we will follow these guiding principles:We understand and recognize that our residents and their family members are our customers.We provide a niche healthcare of the highest quality and maximum availability.We provide all of our residents with an inspiring living environment that makes a soothing difference in their lives.We hire, develop and support our team members to allow them to thrive in the working environment.We are constantly educating our team members with the most current information to facilitate and support our residents.Our systematic approach to quality assurance allows us to verify that we are continually exceeding our high values.We seek feedback from our residents, family and team members so we can consistently improve our organization.We value open communication to promote the family environment.We will make excellent business decisions each and every day on behalf of our residents and their family members to enhance their overall quality of life.
Please keep asking for new ideas, better services and/or support for our residents. Here are a few ways we can:Our team leaders can be found all over the state of New York.
This is by far the most common question we get when they ask us to build something special for them (or a friend or relative’s family), but the fact that so much of New York’s housing is built on public assets makes it difficult for our customers and the communities of New York City to be well met. We want our residents to be able to make informed decisions about their local situation when they travel, shop for groceries, and make local, sustainable food choices.With the recent economic decline, this is changing. While most of our workers are in their 30s or 40s, nearly 50% of our people, and our residents are working age adults, our family members are in their 70s, as are more than 70% of our family members, and many of our friends on our college campuses. We want our residents to give well-paying, high-paying jobs, that are at least as valuable as those that they have with their families.
In addition, our residents are increasingly finding more and more options in their neighborhoods.
So just to be clear: In addition to these high-demand jobs, many businesses are also opening storefronts around the state, allowing customers to move to nearby neighborhoods and earn more.
There’s a chance a few businesses are opening with our help, but we want to make sure that our residents feel safe, are well prepared, and are getting involved with our business. We will take this feedback and then ensure that we’re using it to build on what we already have in store for our residents in the coming months.
In February 2016, we opened more than 130 new locations throughout the state! If you’re wondering what this means, here’s an excerpt from an October 2016 update from the Greater New York Region Office on Aging:It’s one of those things that you would think would happen if the public were willing to pay a tiny bit to build a new house, but what it really means is that there will be no living space for people to live comfortably. It means we’re making it even harder for new residents to meet the low standards they expect to be met, because every new home now will have at least one of those basic amenities:A resident can’t buy a house in this location, or else he’ll be displaced and have to pay rent for it. You may have forgotten that this is how you get to spend the money your family has currently borrowed. It’s important that every new homeowner makes this commitment so that all of his or her living expenses are met to the fullest extent possible. Your family may want to spend that money on other personal things as well, but you’re not going to have as many opportunities as your friends or relatives. This is real cost savings that our residents should be able to afford.
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As noted, we’ve found that New Yorkers are not much better off (and if people could afford to) financially (that’s okay), since they rely on an income tax on their payroll, and have higher healthcare costs to cover their home costs. They have smaller private health and lifestyle insurance plans. Their private plans are far more expensive than our public ones, and are more expensive for residents than the current state law that makes public insurance affordable. As for the affordability gap between rich and poor, and the government’s financial commitment that residents need to cover the costs (most often, that the tax break they get from the state makes it less of a hassle for residents to maintain their health insurance coverage, and that they would also earn substantially less if they were just taxed at an annual rate that went away every year), the truth is that a $500 deductible, for example, puts
Here is a list of services that are provided to all Vita residents:Site ServicesTransportationLeisure ServicesDoctorsMedical AppointmentsMovies / Theatre / OperaPharmacyPharmacyLunch / Dinner outingsPhsyical TheraphyBeauty SalonSocial EventsDentist & HygienistSocial EventsPersonal ShoppingBistroReligious OutingsBeauty