Strength and Experience
Legend Senior Living is a privately held Wichita based company founded in 2001 by Wichita resident Tim Buchanan. Legend Senior Living owns and operates 18 assisted living and retirement residences in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Florida. Mr. Buchanan is a lifelong resident of Wichita and has established and operated multiple successful local and national businesses.
For over 25 years, Mr. Buchanan has been creating award winning residential living environments for individuals and families. He has been a pioneer and leader in the Senior Housing and Care industry in the United States for the last 18 years. Mr. Buchanan co-founded Sterling House Corporation in Wichita in 1990, pioneering assisted living in the United States by designing, developing, and operating hundreds of new senior residences in 35 states across the nation prior to leaving the company in 1999.
Legend Senior Living has grown through acquisitions and the development of new properties, and today operates 18 retirement and assisted living residences serving people in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Florida.
Legend’s commitment to quality is reflected in the management team and individuals serving senior adults each day. The management team at Legend includes industry leaders with national experience dedicated to bringing to bear the best service and innovative practices to enhance the lives of those we serve. Legend residences enjoy the highest occupancy rates among providers, a testament to the quality service, customer satisfaction and attention to detail the company is known for.
Legend Senior Living is founded on values of servanthood, compassion, and character. Our operating strategies, management methods, values and principles are guided by ethical standards of integrity and honesty supported by our faith. Legend believes our mission is more than the physical person, but the whole person, physical, mental, and spiritual.
Mission
Legend Senior Living is dedicated to providing the highest standards of quality of service, environment and care to residents and their families, while providing value and accountability to all our stakeholders. We work to serve the needs of the whole person, physical, mental, and spiritual. We are committed to providing a positive reinforcing work environment that recognizes the value of all staff and fosters individual growth and improvement.
We recognize that our success depends on our ability to live our mission and keep our commitments.
Legend Senior Living is guided by the Legendary Core Values that form the foundation of our company character and culture. They establish the foundation and basis for Legend’s Philosophy of Care and guide team members in executing our Pillars of Practice. The quality of our work is measured in quality of services as well as the sense of well being, comfort, and confidence experienced by those we serve. These important Values, Philosophies of Care and Pillars of Practice are displayed on the walls of Legend residences and welcome centers.
The Regent, borne of Legend’s innovative vision, incorporates the newest design concepts for integrating architecturally appealing apartment homes with beautifully appointed and generous community spaces. The combination of light filled, open spaces with intimate gathering and social areas creates an inviting sense of community and comfort. Each space is uniquely designed and appointed, offering residents a variety of environments to suite their individual taste and mood. The integrated arrangement of common spaces offers frequent opportunity for interaction with friends and for making new acquaintances.
Legendary Core Values
These Legend Core Values form the foundation of our company culture and our Philosophy of Care. These values serve as a basis for individual decisions and behavior.
STEWARDSHIP — Manage money and resources with wisdom and integrity, recognizing responsibility to the customer.
SERVANTHOOD — Deferring my own needs and wants and serving the needs of others.
CARING — A commitment from the heart demonstrated through empathizing with and extending personal interest in the personal, individual needs, weaknesses, and feelings of those persons we serve.
ATTITUDE — The positive manner and perspective used in approaching issues and decisions and situations. Demonstrating a positive attitude and approach in the workplace and particularly when addressing residents, families, co workers.
TEAMWORK — Deferring my personal wants to work as a team gives us the opportunity to utilize all the talents as a group and to realize the uniqueness of each one.
CREATIVITY— A conscious effort and willingness to see things differently, to break out of habits and outdated thought to find new ways of thinking, doing, and being. Recognizing that improvement requires my flexibility and involves change from time to time.
INTEGRITY—Working hard, keeping promises, sharing success. Above all, honesty. Showing respect, fairness, and consideration of others. Following the respective authoritative governing rule. Integrity does what is honest, and right according to other shared values even when it is not convenient, easy, or even visible.
INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT— Taking the initiative to improve oneself by broadening ones knowledge and skills in order to bring the best possible to Legend. This often involves changing the way I do things in order to benefit through the sharing and implementation of best practices.
ACCOUNTABILITY— The willingness to acknowledge responsibility to others, and the willingness to fully accept responsibility for one’s actions and the implication that may result.
PRODUCTIVITY— Maximizing my personal output without increased resources or compromising quality. A willingness to pursue new more efficient methods of doing my work and helping the team. A willingness to be monitored and measured according to my peers.
Legend's Philosophy of Care
We believe in the inherent worth of people and strive to honor this through the delivery of quality care and environment.
At the foundation of our approach to service are fundamental concepts we believe important to every senior and critical in our approach to creating proper environments and service delivery systems.
QUALITY
Provide quality health care services. Always seek best practices.
DIGNITY
Offer each resident dignity and respect.
INDIVIDUALITY
Promote the individuality of each resident.
INDEPENDENCE
Foster and support independence for each resident.
CHOICE
Offer individual choices in care and lifestyle.
PRIVACY
Support each resident's right to privacy.
FAMILY
Support the needs of family, involving family in care decisions.
ENVIORNMENT
Providing a supportive residential environment.
“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.” -George Washington Carver
Pillars of Practice
Built upon our foundational Legend Core Values and Legend Philosophy of Care are the Legend Pillars of Practice. Adherence to these principles of conduct is essential to fulfilling our commitment to each customer and co- worker. Each team member commits to check themselves daily against these principles.
Exercise good character, honesty, and positive attitude.
Be cheerful, and dress in proper assigned attire.
Know the Resident’s physical, mental, and spiritual needs, and learn personal facts about them.
Serve the customer with eagerness, sincerity and caring.
Take ownership of any customer problem and follow through to resolution.
Conduct my duties and responsibilities with quality and energy, paying attention to detail in all tasks.
Honor our customer’s trust, treating each person individually with respect—personal interest—and appreciation.
Never share personal problems or negative issues about anything, personal or work, with a customer.
Take responsibility for my individual performance and be supportive of my fellow associates in their duties.
Be a good steward of resources & conserving expenses.
Greet everyone with a smile & sincere verbal greeting.
Be creative and open to ideas & learn from mistakes.
