Business View Magazine | March 2020

157 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE MARCH 2020 HAMI STER GROUP , LLC one might think. From a facility management perspective, the two sectors have a close relationship. As Turesky explains, “We’ve always treated our assisted living, and our nursing homes, when I first joined the company, as though they were hotels. But we were a big believer in hospitality - to do the things we thought hotels would be doing, even though we didn’t have any experience at that point in the industry. I remember very distinctly, Mark Hamister took me out for lunch one day and said, ‘I’ve been thinking about getting into the hotel business because of the great success in hospitality we’ve had using those thought processes and those principles. If I did, would you be in favor of it?’ And I said, ‘Absolutely, let’s give it a try.’ So, we went ahead and purchased our first hotels and we’ve implemented hospitality in both sectors of facility management. The only difference from our perspective is that we offer nursing services in the assisted living.”