All About Alden

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History

After graduating from Chicago Technical College as an engineer, Floyd A. Schlossberg began working in the construction industry in the early 1960s and founded Alden Bennett Construction Co. Inc. in 1961. In the beginning, Schlossberg and his team built schools, fire stations, Park District fieldhouses and libraries in Chicago. In the late 1960s, his wife’s grandfather fell ill and required 24-hour nursing care, but her grandparent’s financial situation was such that a private, specialty home was not possible. That is when Schlossberg began thinking that there had to be a lot of seniors in similar circumstances who needed quality health care.

As a result in 1971, he opened Alden’s first Medicaid-certified skilled nursing facility—Alden Lakeland in Chicago’s Uptown community—on a site originally slated for a high-rise apartment complex. Today, Alden offers 38 sites throughout the Chicagoland area, Rockford and southern Wisconsin. They comprise 21 rehabilitation and health care centers, 7 independent senior living facilities, 5 special needs facilities, 3 assisted living communities and 2 Alzheimer’s residential centers. Alden and its affiliated companies include a real estate, management and development company, general construction company, home health provider, pharmacy and durable medical equipment supplies.
Services range across the continuum— from independent retirement communities and assisted living to skilled nursing and rehabilitation for people, both seniors and young adults, with more intensive health care and therapy requirements along with specialized care for the memory impaired.

Schlossberg remains committed to the older adult population. As he often is known to say, “For the philosophical reasons I chose to be in this business, our company will always be there for seniors, including the Medicaid population. They are the people who are the backbone of our nation—parents, grandparents, veterans from WWII, the Korean War. We owe them the best we have to offer.”