The Ballesol company expands its network of care centers for the elderly in the Canary Islands with the inauguration of its first residence in Tenerife.
With five-star accreditation, this new center combines quality of service, personalized attention, exclusive dedication and commitment to excellence in care, in line with a new concept of well-being and improvement in the quality of life for people. seniors and their families. As indicated Maria Jose Requenadirector of this residence, the opening of Ballesol Tenerife responds to a broader and more flexible demand for care, adapted to the needs and desires of each resident, “promoting the autonomy and talent of the elderly in the new longevity”.
Ballesol Tenerife has an area of 4,900 square meters and 87 parking spacesdistributed in 76 single rooms and 11 double rooms, and it is the second residence of Ballesol in the Canary Islands, which comes to join the center Ballesol Las Palmas which is located in the center of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, in the Triana neighborhood.
The Ballesol Tenerife residence occupies the old María Inmaculada school, a building registered in the Historical Heritage protection catalog
This new residence has facilities equipped with the latest technological innovationsintegrated into accessible and adapted spaces. “An inclusive and innovative approach that will allow all residents to enjoy green and landscaped areas, and large terraces in a design for everyone”stand out from the direction of .
In order to offer a personalized and quality service, the residence has medical care, nursing, physiotherapy, rehabilitation, and Advanced Dementia Care Units. In addition, residents have at their disposal a Department of Sociocultural Animation and an individualized service of adapted and textured diets. They also have a hairdresser or gym, among other services and activities.
The residence is located in a building registered in the catalog of protection of Historical Heritage from the capital and located on Avenida La Salle with San Sebastián. It occupies the space of the old María Inmaculada school, an educational benchmark with more than fifty years of activity and which ceased its activity in the 2015-2016 school year.
The protection, recovery and functional revitalization of the two buildings that make up this geriatric center (built in 1923 and 1930 by the architect Domingo Pisaca Burgada), has involved a unique rehabilitation and conditioning work to achieve respect the value and historical heritage of the old buildingand who has successfully managed to maintain the new residence.
“The challenge achieved has been to build a residence adapted to the latest technologies and comfort, but maintaining and enhancing, through the works and the furniture and decoration, the grandeur of the original air of the beginning of the century”, highlights Carlos LeraDirector of Property Management at Ballesol, who adds that “the integration of a photovoltaic field on the roof of Ballesol Tenerife It will make it possible to increase its energy efficiency to produce electricity from the sun, which together with the installation of efficient cold and heat production systems, represent innovative advances”facilities that make this residential center a pioneer in the use of this type of resource.
In line with the company’s management model, the opening of Ballesol Tenerife guarantees a quality care system based on a direct, personal and comprehensive care. It currently has a total of 50 residences and more than 7,400 residential places.