Social
Socialisation protects cognitive health. Our age-in-place model gives Members years in which to build real friendships with their neighbours, not passing acquaintances.
About Us
Built by a son who watched it done badly
Vista Springs began with one family’s twenty-five years inside the system, and a conviction that the whole thing was aimed at the wrong question.
Mission & values
Safety is the floor, not the ceiling
Most senior living is designed around risk. Keep someone fed, medicated and upright, and the job is judged done. It is a reasonable standard and it is far too low a one.
We build around a harder question: how does a person keep a life that still feels like their own. That means company, purpose, movement, music and food worth sitting down for, treated as seriously as medication schedules, because for how someone actually fares over a decade, they matter just as much.
Care is on hand the moment it is wanted, at every level, in one community. But care is where we start, not what we are for.
See how care works here
Lou Andriotti
Founder & CEO
A letter from our founder
Why Vista Springs exists
Over 20 years ago I decided to start Vista Springs because of my own continuum of care experience with my mother. Growing up in Ohio and now living in Michigan, I knew the Midwest, with its neighborly values and small-town sensibilities, was where Vista Springs should be born.
My mother ended up living in nearly every kind of senior living there is: home health agencies, catered living, rehabilitation, active adult living, chronic care management, falls, surgeries, recoveries, dementia care and finally palliative and hospice care. Her experiences, filled with many ups and downs, gave me the perspective and the insight that became the foundation of our purpose-driven mission.
Surrounding myself with a team of experienced servant-leaders, we have been able to partner closely with medical professionals to support our Members and their families through their own healthcare journeys with compassion, understanding and empathy.
From the beginning it has been my personal mission to stay closely involved with our award-winning communities, which is why Vista Springs remains veteran and family owned and operated. It lets me spend time each day overseeing operations, visiting communities, and sitting with Members and their families at community events.
Our communities are the culmination of my life's work: the kind of supportive living I wanted my own mother to have, and that let her thrive through the last 25 years of her 98-year, well-lived life.
Though I miss my mother greatly, her legacy inspires me to keep creating the same life-enriching opportunities for others, in fulfillment of our daily promise to make people happier and healthier. The memories I made with her were the best gifts I have ever received, and the ones I hope to help more families receive in the years to come.
I invite you to visit one of our communities and see firsthand the difference our servant-leaders make in the lives of our Members every moment of the day.
Our promise to you
Four commitments we hold to
All-inclusive pricing
Never be surprised by hidden fees. The monthly price covers every care need and every amenity in the community.
Resort-inspired amenities
Gourmet dining, salon services, social activities and entertainment: a rich daily life, not a list in a brochure.
Care that grows with you
Most changes in health are met right where you live, by a team that already knows you. If a need ever goes beyond what we can safely support, we will tell you plainly and help plan the next step.
Full of Life philosophy
Health needs are one part of it. We deliver care alongside joy, every day, in both our communities.
Our Full of Life philosophy
Safety is the floor, not the ceiling
It is not difficult to keep someone safe. It is much harder to make their Tuesday worth getting up for. Full of Life is our commitment to the second thing: experiences and services in an amenity-rich setting that bring joy and hold off future cognitive and health concerns, while your loved one's safety is assured and their care needs are answered the moment they arise.
All-inclusive senior care
Healthy living extends well beyond medical needs
So we build the amenities that make it easy to fall into a friendship, stay active, try something new, or simply keep up a hobby.
Physical
Exercise gets harder with age and matters more. Senior-approved movement maintains range of motion, builds strength and cuts the risk of a serious fall.
Intellectual
Puzzles, arts and crafts, trivia night: the activity calendar is full of ways to work the mind, which is how memory and cognition are kept sharp.
Spiritual
Faith matters to many of our Members. We make room for it, because connecting with something larger changes how a person feels about their day.
Every day
What Full of Life looks like in practice
Dining
Vistalicious gourmet cuisine, nutritious homemade meals every day, and dining events that let Members sample fare from around the world.
Spa & salon
Massage, beauty and grooming services on site, so Members always look and feel like themselves.
Wellness & renewal
Quiet treatment rooms and hands-on therapies: care that is about comfort rather than a chart.
Suites that feel like home
Private, generous apartments Members furnish themselves. The building may be a community; the suite is theirs.
The Vista Springs difference
Find a Vista Springs community
We believe retirement and assisted living should be full of life. Each of our Michigan communities has its own culture and atmosphere. The only way to know which one fits is to walk into both.
Come and meet us
See the difference for yourself
Experience our Full of Life promise at either of our Michigan communities. Come for a tour, stay for lunch.