Company Profile
Company Overview
Concepts in Community Living (CCL) offers a complete range of consulting and management services to assist clients in the research, development, and operation of Retirement and Assisted Living Communities. Specializing primarily in supportive housing services, CCL brings clients a unique blend of professional expertise and a commitment to the highest possible quality of life for older people.
CCL's extensive experience includes providing design, development, marketing, training and management services to over 150 clients in 20 states and in Canada, and includes work with both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. The national leadership of CCL in assisted living has been based on a simple philosophy of providing the highest possible quality of services while maintaining the independence, dignity, privacy, choice and individuality of residents.
Company History
Concepts in Community Living, Inc. (CCL) was founded in 1989 by Dr. Keren Brown Wilson, with her husband Dr. Michael R. DeShane joining the company in early 1990. Originally formed to manage assisted living facilities, CCL quickly became a provider of operational and policy consultation to the developers and operators of these projects, as well as to government and social service agencies concerned about long-term care issues.
CCL's first management involvement was with a 300-unit adult congregate living facility, Blue Lagoon, which opened in early 1990 in Miami, Florida. Later that year, the company began operating Rackleff House in Portland, Oregon, which was the first facility developed by Assisted Living Facilities, Inc. (ALF), an Oregon corporation of which Wilson and her husband, DeShane were shareholders.
By late 1994, CCL was operating six facilities in Oregon, most of which achieved national recognition for innovation and all of which set the stage for the rapid growth seen nationally in assisted living in the latter part of the 1990's. It was with these six base facilities that Wilson began the first publicly traded assisted living company in the United States, Assisted Living Concepts, Inc. (ALC). DeShane, having a strong background in both development and management of supportive housing, chose to remain with CCL to continue its original focus on consultation, development, and operation of new projects.
Innovation
Since its founding, CCL has been at the forefront of the assisted living movement, and has been recognized nationally for its leadership in this industry. The principals of CCL designed, developed and managed Oregon's first Assisted Living Facility (ALF), first small (25 unit) ALF, and first Medicaid-eligible ALF. CCL's principals were also instrumental in developing the first state regulations for assisted living and in obtaining the first Medicaid waiver for assisted living.
Over the years, this dedication has continued with CCL working side-by-side with groups and individuals just starting out in retirement and assisted housing. More recent accomplishments include having implemented a property and services management plan to operate the first one-hundred percent affordable, tax credit, assisted living facility; serve as the selected management agent for the first known Native American Senior Housing development; and participate in the development and management of one of the first Deaf and Deaf-Blind Assisted Living facilities in the Western United States.