The company now known as LCS™ was established in 1971 as a subsidiary of The Weitz Company, a general contractor based in Des Moines, Iowa. The Weitz Company had spent a decade building retirement communities and realized there was a need for a broad-based services organization to develop and manage senior living communities. The company was renamed Life Care Services™ in 1976. Life Care Services developed or built 31 new senior living communities across the United States during the 1970s and 1980s. By 1979, owners of other communities began contracting with Life Care Services for management services.
Between 1979 and 1995, other companies joined the family of Life Care Services. In 1995, Life Care Services became an employee-owned company. In 2010, CRSA Holdings, Inc. joined the family of companies, providing new synergies and opportunities for both companies nationwide and internationally. In 2011, the parent company became LCS, the new identity for a family of companies dedicated to delivering exceptional, above-and-beyond products and services to America's senior population. Those companies are Life Care Services, LCS Development™, CRSA™, Health at Home™ and CPS™.
Today more than 29,000 people live in over 100 communities developed, managed and marketed by LCS, and thousands more benefit from the services of Health at Home and CPS.
