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Lifespark Launches ‘Complete’ Model to Integrate Housing, Healthcare Services

  • Jan 28, 2026
  • Meaghan Puglisi
  • 1-min Read

In McKnight’s Senior Living, reporter Kimberly Bonvissuto shared Lifespark’s latest news.

Joel Theisen said he wasn’t happy with the “broken rollercoaster” of serving older adults or the “lip service” the senior living industry seemed to be giving to the integration of senior housing and healthcare.

So the Lifespark CEO decided to do something about it. 

The Minnesota-based senior living health services company on Tuesday unveiled its COMPLETE Senior Living, or CSL, model, integrating its Lifespark Senior Living Management; SPARK Growth and Wellness, a suite of programs integrating housing, health and wellness led by Chief Experience Officer Bill Thomas, MD; the Lifespark Medical Group, on-site geriatric primary care; and Lifespark Hospice. The goal, he told McKnight’s Senior Living, is to offer a better value proposition with its users.

Read on for more on McKnight’s…

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