Silverado Bellevue Names Simeon Purkey as Administrator

Experienced Memory Care Professional will Lead the Brand-New Memory Care Community

Silverado is pleased to announce that Simeon Purkey, MA, has been named the Administrator of its Bellevue memory care community, opening this Spring. A passionate and experienced senior living professional with a strong record of providing residents under his care with an exceptional quality of life will lead the team of highly trained and compassionate memory care professionals. You will find Simeon singing to our residents and otherwise actively engaged with the staff in the community.

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Simeon Purkey, Administrator, Silverado Bellevue (Photo: Business Wire)

A native of the Pacific Northwest, Simeon earned a BA from Indiana Wesleyan University and a MA from Wesley Biblical Seminary. He began his professional career in senior living in 2016 as a memory care Lifestyle Director in Bend, OR. Simeon quickly earned a promotion to Marketing Director and ultimately to Senior Executive Director. He earned the staff’s trust, dramatically improving average employee retention to >2 years and gaining the families’ confidence filling the community to more than 95% occupancy. Most recently, he served as Executive Director at a memory care community in Austin, TX.

“Of the many differentiators Silverado offers to enrich the lives of our residents, none is more important than our people,” comments Loren Shook, Silverado’s Co-Founder, President, and CEO. “Simeon exemplifies the compassion, spirit, and professionalism that have helped Silverado communities change the lives of countless residents and families in the more than two decades the company has been in business,” he added.

The new community is prepared to meet the current pandemic’s challenges, with a policy that staff must be vaccinated against COVID-19 unless they have a health or religious exemption. Companywide, Silverado has created a safe “bubble” around communities with a vaccination rate exceeding 97% for residents and staff. Shook shared, “Many families have experienced the unique needs of their loved ones with memory impairments, and being most concerned about their safety have struggled to find quality care during this pandemic.” He adds, “Offering and committing to maintaining a staff that has received the vaccine creates a great level of confidence when they decide to place their loved one with Silverado.”

Joining Silverado’s Bellingham community, located 90 miles to the north, the Bellevue community will offer all of the features that have earned Silverado its reputation as a leader in caring for individuals with Alzheimer’s and others types of dementia. Located at 14428 NE 8th Street, the community is two miles East of I-405 and Overlake Medical Center.

The building is more than 28,000 square feet supporting 56 residents. Shook shared, “This purpose-built community has many innovative design features to meet the unique needs of individuals living with a brain disease to regain a sense of control and freedom, advancing their ability to function normally again.” This unique building design, coupled with Silverado’s dementia-certified staff, results in world-class evidence-based outcomes proven to reduce behaviors commonly found in other assisted living and memory care settings. Shook continued, “Often the resident’s behaviors are misinterpreted as being a result of their dementia when they are due to the environment a person is forced to live in and cannot adapt to, like you and I can.” Silverado offers a new paradigm of quality of life for the person with the disease and provides relief and hope for their family. The result of these industry-leading design elements and trained staff is to maximize the quality of life for residents. Improved airflow, lighting, and acoustic enhancements promote resident wellness while incorporating the latest technologies to combat the challenges posed by COVID-19.

Please call (425) 559-9115 to schedule a tour or visit silverado.com/bellevue to take a virtual tour of the community. Follow us at www.facebook.com/silveradobellevue for direct updates and glimpses of life inside the community.

About Silverado

Silverado is nationally ranked 6^th Great Place to Work-certified. Founded in 1996, the company’s goal is to enrich the lives of those with memory loss by changing how the world cares for people with cognitive decline and other chronic or acute conditions. This foundation allows Silverado – and its associates – to leave behind previous misconceptions and operate in a way that provides clients, residents, and patients with utmost dignity, freedom, respect, and quality of life. Silverado has grown to become a nationally and internationally recognized provider of memory care assisted living and palliative and hospice services. With locations in California, Illinois, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Utah, and Wisconsin, the company strives to deliver world-class care and unmatched service. To learn more, visit silverado.com or call (866) 522-8125.

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