About Vista Living
Management Team with Unmatched Depth, Breadth and Experience
Vista Living offers a level of leadership and support that is exceptionally rare in residential assisted living. Few, if any, homes can match the depth and breadth of our management team. Our leadership structure includes:
- A full-time CEO who is actively involved in daily decision-making
- A full-time Executive Director
- A full-time Resident Services Director
- A full-time Operations & Marketing Director
- A full-time Activities Director
- A part-time RN Nurse
This strong leadership presence translates directly into a higher level of care, responsiveness, and customer service for both residents and their families.
In addition, many members of our leadership team have served in their roles for years. That continuity allows them to develop deep healthcare knowledge, maintain consistent leadership practices, and build meaningful long-term relationships with residents, families, and staff. The result is a well-established operational structure, smoother day-to-day management, and a culture grounded in trust, accountability, and compassion.
Our leadership team also helps foster a positive, mission-driven environment where professionalism and resident-centered care are the standard. This stability at the top contributes to stability throughout the organization, including a dependable and committed caregiver team.
We are proud to offer caregivers not only competitive pay, but in many cases room and board as well, with private bedrooms and bathrooms in our homes. This creates a uniquely attractive work environment and helps us retain quality caregivers who are deeply invested in the residents they serve.
That combination of leadership strength, staff stability, and personal commitment is one of the many reasons families choose Vista Living.
“At Vista Living, we’ve built a leadership team unlike any other in residential assisted living, a team with extraordinary depth, experience, commitment, and heart. With full-time professionals leading every key area of our operations, we deliver an exceptional level of care, responsiveness, compassion, and service that families can truly feel. Our unwavering commitment and strong, stable leadership, together with our dedicated caregivers, create a foundation of trust and genuine compassion that defines the Vista Living experience.”
Meet Our Phoenix Assisted Living Team
Brett Weisel
Dean Hency
Lisa Karaffa
Ashley Miller
Edwin Mends
Gabriela Istrate
Robyn Bagu
Robert Lawrence
Kyle Oura
The Vista Living Difference
Vista Living provides personalized, compassionate care in a warm and welcoming home. Our caregivers and activities directors build meaningful connections with residents through daily engagement, one-on-one time, and shared moments with family and friends. We focus on creating a supportive environment where residents feel valued and families have peace of mind every day.
Brett’s Story
2010: Grammy and Brett’s kids at her 100th Birthday!!
“My introduction to senior living came when my 96 year old Grandmother “Grammy” (hope I get her genes) moved into a large senior living community across the country from her many family members and friends. The move ended up being a poor decision and experience for her. The community advertised a Four Seasons experience and did not deliver anything even close to this promise. The senior living community ended up being too sterile and impersonal. The culture was bureaucratic and authoritative. The staff had little or no time for individual needs and took away what she enjoyed without any explanation. We felt like our concerns for her were being ignored. Our Grammy would have had a much better experience in a more personalized and friendly environment that would have given her much more peace, joy and love through her last days. This experience really stuck with me.
After Grammy passed (at the incredible age of 103!), I began learning more and more about assisted living until deciding to pivot my career towards creating better living environments for seniors. I used my background investing in housing and creating teams to help launch Vista Living with some of the very best professionals in senior living. Fortunately, I found that in Kyle and Vista Living was born. The sense of truly discovering and nurturing the needs and lifestyle desires of our residents is at the core of all we do at Vista Living.
I feel very fortunate to have joined forces with our entire Vista Living team. They all have such big hearts, engaging personalities, decades of experience, knowledge, motivation and passion for providing great care.
Before we opened Vista Living in Phoenix, Kyle and I spent two years researching the best partners, services, locations and assisted living design. The research included visiting over 50 assisted living communities in three different states. We took notes on what worked and what did not in each place, and most importantly what the manager and caregivers do to create the right care environment. We also built relationships with dozens of leading senior living experts for every aspect – care, services, architecture/design, etc. Every single detail of the community and the business were carefully planned, designed and implemented with compassion. I feel privileged to offer a better model for senior living.”
Grammy’s 100th w/ Brett’s brother who passed away in 2017 after a long battle with lupus
Kyle’s Story
Kyle and his dad
“I used to get this ‘old man’ feeling knowing that things will never stay the same. That one day, I would miss very much what I have today. I reminded myself of that when my dad went deeper into dementia. I had this fleeting opportunity to show him my gratitude and fulfill part of my life’s obligation to make sure he is comfortable and around people who like him. As I continued to work in the senior living industry, people would still remind me about his smile. When I see pictures of my dad I am reminded of his friends in the senior home and the workers with big hearts who looked after them. I hope we can continue this magic with Vista Living and make every moment count.”
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