The Right Team Upholding the Right Values
Senior Living Residences’ Right Values mission is the driving force behind a uniquely talented and creative team of professionals both in our Home Office and in every one of our communities, dedicated to the company’s success and making senior’s lives better.
SLR’s Home Office Team
SLR’s Partners are supported by a strong team of professionals with senior living development and management expertise in operations, business development and finance, design and construction, asset management, compliance, recruitment and retention, training, sales and dining.
These professionals and their departments provide direct oversight and support to our onsite community teams.
SLR also has a unique in-house full-service marketing agency providing robust marketing services for all projects.
Tadd Clelland
President & CEO
With over 20 years of senior management experience in the industry, Mr. Clelland is highly skilled at building top notch teams, and overseeing day-to-day operations of Senior Living Residences’ portfolio of communities, including start-ups and operational turnarounds, to achieve full occupancy and the highest financial performance possible.
Mr. Clelland works with investment partners and nonprofit clients in development, acquisitions and asset management, and he oversees new project assimilation, as well as corrective operations and marketing for non-performing communities.
Mr. Clelland’s executive leadership includes a personal commitment to associate training, development, mentorship and retention. He is a Certified Dementia Practitioner trainer and conducts leadership training for SLR managers. With his specific expertise and interest in residential Alzheimer’s care, Mr. Clelland spearheaded the development of SLR’s innovative treatment program successfully launching the company’s Compass Memory Support division in 2010.
Mr. Clelland’s background prior to SLR includes management and sales for assisted living and Alzheimer’s care communities for Hearthstone and Marriott. Mr. Clelland has a B.S. in Social Work from Nazareth College of Rochester, NY. Tadd is on the Board of Directors at the Massachusetts Assisted Living Association (MASS-ALA).
Click through to read more about Tadd’s vision for SLR’s growth and success:Senior Living News CEO Series: Tadd Clelland
Robert Larkin
Founder
Mr. Larkin, an attorney, founded SLR over 30 years ago, developing Massachusetts’ first assisted living community. He is also a co-founder of the Massachusetts Assisted Living Association. SLR, which was created to provide seniors with a high quality residential living alternative in which to receive top quality care services from an employee team that is highly valued and well treated, has enjoyed organic business growth and financial success.
SLR Director Team
AN EXPERIENCED CORPORATE LEVEL TEAM
Tom Sexton, CPA, Accounting & Financial Reporting
20y+ experience | 5y @ SLR
Direct oversight of the Finance and Business Administration teams. Works closely with SLR’s Director of Budgets and Revenue.
Joseph Ruscitto, Budgets & Revenue
20y+ experience | 6y @ SLR
Monitors and evaluates spending and revenue to provide analysis and guidance to drive results and improve performance.
Pamela Maloney, Marketing & Technology
20y+ experience | 13y @ SLR
Oversees full-service in-house marketing agency to service our communities. Directs technology team, tech systems and software.
Michael Schaus, Operations
17y+ experience | 15y @ SLR
Manages regional ops team as well as new project transitions where he rolls out policies and procedures and instills SLR’s culture.
Jamie McWilliam, Sales & Outreach
20y+ experience | 15y @ SLR
Monitors all sales efforts, assists communities executing outreach and sales strategies, and building a community culture of sales.
Jenna Worthington, CDP, Compliance & Human Resources
20y+ experience | 13y @ SLR
Works with communities to ensure SLR’s standards of operation, associate relations, and proper implementation of initiatives, policies and procedures.
Kim Chaisson, Culinary & Dining Services
25y+ experience | 15y @ SLR
Oversees dining programs including Brain Healthy Cooking. Named Premier’s 2018 Illuminating Excellence Award winner, #1 Food Service Director in the U.S.
Chris Dowd, Construction & Asset Management
25y+ experience | 6y @ SLR
Oversees capital planning, facilities management, and Building & Grounds teams, ensuring safe, secure environments as well as profit and growth objectives.
Lindsay Willis, RN, CDP, Professional Development
15y+ experience | 13y @ SLR
Develops and oversees SLR training programs with a focus on promoting resident quality of life. Leads the ED2B mentorship and Certified Dementia Practitioner programs.
Paula Mangus, RN, BSN, Director of Health & Wellness
30y+ experience | 1y @ SLR
Supports our nursing teams by providing clinical leadership, mentoring Resident Care Directors, and helping ensure compassionate, high-quality care that enhances residents’ health, safety, and quality of life.
Our Onsite Community Teams
SLR is known for hiring, training and mentoring the best and the brightest in senior care to meet our core commitment to enhancing the Quality of Life of every resident who lives in one of our communities. So that our associates can do right by the thousands of seniors we provide care, services and programming to every day, we dedicate enormous resources to a robust training program, starting with our 3-day General Orientation and including leadership training and Certified Dementia Practitioner training, to name a few.
Residents and families can count on a professional and compassionate team dedicated to making their lives easier by providing top notch care and services, enriching programming, and a clean, safe and comfortable home. Community teams are managed by an extraordinary group of professionals.
- Ensuring that residents’ Quality of Life is our primary focus at all times, in all ways, is the mission of our Executive Directors.
- Creating programs that engage and inspire older individuals is the goal of our EnrichedLIFE, ConnectedLIFE and Compass Program Directors.
- Serving delicious meals with menu options inspired by our Brain Healthy Cooking Program and providing a special dining experience is the aim of our Directors of Dining Experience.
- Enhancing residents’ well-being by addressing their personal care needs is the responsibility of our Resident Care Directors.
- Maintaining the community indoors and out is handled by our Directors of Building & Grounds.