CALA News & Views | Issue 53 | CALA at 30

By Kevin Swartzendruber, CALA Director of Marketing and Communications

CALA’s

Thirty years ago, a small group of providers came together around a shared belief: that Assisted Living and Memory Care offered something distinct and essential – and that California needed a strong, unified voice to represent that model of care. From those early conversations, the California Assisted Living Facility Association was born, soon after renamed the California Assisted Living Association. CELEBRATING THREE DECADES OF ADVOCACY , EDUCATION AND MEMBER POWERED PROGRESS .

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