Senior Building Evaluations & Property Studies
Yanik has been hired to review various existing senior care buildings and properties to evaluate the condition of the facility, review unit and common area layouts and amenities, assess potential for expansion and renovation and to provide at times preliminary cost estimates.
Benedictine Health Center at Innsbruck
Provide master site planning of existing facility expansion and surrounding site opportunities to add new senior care services such as independent living, enhanced assisted living, memory care, affordable senior housing and traditional skilled care. Site planning meetings included intake reviews with the City of New Brighton planning department to better understand allowable uses and zoning and code requirements.
Pine Medical Center – Essentia Health
Provide moratorium planning and submittal services for a potential move and replacement of skilled care units to from existing hospital and senior care campus to a new site. A complete analysis of the existing facility was performed and included developing, writing and submitting the moratorium application. Yanik worked with the Hospital to secure a market demand analysis and performed a preliminary building plan layout at the site under consideration.
Benedictine Living Community of St. Peter EAL/MC/IL Addition
Yanik reviewed and planned a small house memory care building with independent living and enhanced assisted living as the final component of the senior care campus in St. Peter, MN. The 36 units also included 20 spaces of underground parking.
Takakwitha Living Center
This senior care facility requested Yanik to review how a new household of 15 skilled care beds could be incorporated into the master expansion planning of the existing hospital.
St. Gertrudes Health & Rehabilitation Center
Yanik was asked to review how to incorporate transitional care branded elements into this senor care facility in Shakopee, MN. A new visible entry was needed to clearly identify the transitional care space with a new reception area to greet guests. Revised layouts were considered which included new care suites with “tea kitchensâ€, bistro space and dedicated therapy room.
St. Clare Living Community of Mora
This facility review included developing a concept master plan that considered the addition of a new therapy space, 12 memory care/AL small house and a separate EAL small house all connected by a town center. This town center included chapel/activity space, a bistro, private dining/conference space and a salon.
Minnesota Valley Health Center
Yanik was hired to review the current layout and functions at the Minnesota Valley Health Center in LeSuer, MN. The facility considered renovation at their current units to update into private beds, add bistro space and a 10 bed small house transitional care unit. The review also detailed a possible separate small house memory care addition.