The Senior Living ROI Program: Interior Design Meets Operations with Ops Specialist Tina Rogers
SENIOR LIVING INTERIOR DESIGN MEETS OPERATIONS EXPERTISE: ONLY BD STUDIO COLLECTION CAN REFRESH, OPTIMIZE, AND ILLUMINATE THE INVESTMENT IN YOUR PROPERTY, STAFF, AND RESIDENTS.
In Senior Living Interior Design, it makes a world of a difference when the design firm can truly speak senior living. Finding a partner with a designer’s vision AND an operator’s vocabulary is rare…
…and just one of the reasons we are an unmatched design studio.
Many Owners and Operators know their property needs some love, but don’t know where to start, or who to call to get the process going.
Meet Tina Rogers. An ace in the senior living sector, Tina has 20 years’ experience in senior living operations, sales, and marketing. She has navigated through virtually every obstacle and challenge that senior living communities face—and now she’s on our side, working in-house to bridge the worlds of interior design and operations strategy.
Tina and Melissa Banko are the head, heart and pulse of BD Studio Collection’s ROI Offering. In this instance, ROI stands for “Renovation, Operations, and Interiors,” but you can bet it’ll help maximize your return on investment, too.
Our ROI Program aims to bring the key consultants of a successful renovation together, so that Owners can create a roadmap on how best to tackle their project and (you guessed it) – maximize their ROI.
HIGH LEVEL: OUR ROI PROCESS
How do we Refresh, Optimize and Illuminate your senior living property? It’s a step-by-step process that literally starts with steps—a site walkthrough—and takes us all the way through design concepts, scoping, FF&E and installation. Our teams work in tandem with you, ensuring we get the best for your community and budget.
Programming - Through a Tina-led site visit and/or due diligence walk, we can assess a site brief that includes a priority list, program suggestions, initial concept ideas and areas of improvement.
Design Services - Our commercial interior design team specifies and designs the project, while marketing and branding services can be added on through BD Studio Collection.
Pricing Strategy - Alongside your team, our design team and Red Pen Procurement strategize on pricing and work with you to finalize scope and prioritization.
FF&E Procurement - FF&E is specified by our commercial interior design team, and Red Pen Procurement provides final pricing on all FF&E and materials.
Installation - Red Pen Procurement provides a list of preferred installers and coordinates the procurement, warehousing and delivery of all FF&E materials and can install the project with our commercial interior design team.
It’s a proven process that’s rooted in making renovations easier together.
Featured here is Preston Pointe, a newly renovated senior living community in Morrisville, NC, designed by Banko Design. Procurement and installation by Red Pen Procurement. Owned and Operated by Raul’s Living, Inc.
TINA’S DEEP DIVE
Tina’s smarts have become integral across our entire operation. Through internal education, she’s given our designers a leg up in devising plans that aren’t just creative, they’re also keen on improving the functionality of the community.
For our clients, her services include due diligence assessments, education sessions and program charrettes that bridge the gap between “pretty” and program. She makes things work better; we make things look better.
In her assessments, she’s on top of anything and everything that can be underestimated or overlooked. In memory care units, for example, she often sees resident rooms or sensory rooms not fulfilling their full purposes and defaulting to becoming storage rooms. In a pinch this may work, but is never a viable long term solution. Tina, instead, can give every room a strategy, plan and purpose.
Her fresh perspective starts from asking questions, establishing mutual trust and getting the full understanding of your goals and intentions for your space. From there, she can tailor something that not only fits your needs but exceeds what you thought was possible. She’ll introduce new programming ideas that require little to no cost to implement, just a savvy pivot of possibilities. For properties with memory care, she’s a strong advocate for the environmental approach to combating cognitive decline and will illuminate what you can do as an operator to enhance your residents’ quality of life.
Her passion for a better environment for seniors is rooted in her own compassion. This approach considers every part of senior living design, including the furniture, wall colors, patterns, lighting, even the flow of the building, and optimizes it for the most enriching experience possible. How the brain responds to this type of environment is shown to have delayed the cognitive decline for seniors in memory care. However, that doesn’t mean an environmental approach should start late in the game.
Through Tina’s experience, she’s seen firsthand how dignified design, programming and care can improve the health, happiness and longevity of senior living residents.
All in all, she is part of the team that is your partner in better senior living, from operations to ambiance and everything in between.
For more from Tina, check out Episode 3 of our Banko Buzz podcast where Tina and Melissa discuss Banko’s “UNMATCHED” core value, and how Tina’s unmatched experience and expertise translates to a successful senior living community.
OUR ROI BOOSTS YOUR ROI
It’d be bad business to call this program “ROI” without it benefitting your return on investment. With a thorough analysis and program, operations and design changes, your senior living community can thrive like never before.
Featured here is Preston Pointe, a newly renovated senior living community in Morrisville, NC, designed by Banko Design. Procurement and installation by Red Pen Procurement. Owned and Operated by Raul’s Living, Inc.
An enhanced look—that also functions better—helps your facility stand out amongst your competitors, making it a preferred destination for residents and caregivers. This boosts sales, retention and satisfaction. It benefits more than just your senior residents. Our ROI Program creates a better place to work for your staff. By improving where they work, in both looks and day-to-day logistics, it’ll be easier to attract and keep top talent in a sector where the right hire is like finding a needle in a haystack.
Tina’s passion for better senior living is effusive, and her methodology has been proven effective for residents and staff in numerous senior living communities. With her, you’ll build true community within your property, which is the goal we are all seeking to accomplish.
To get started, email the team at steph@bankodesign.com!
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