Wilmac Healthcare, Inc.

Industry: Assisted living, nursing home care, and retirement living

President/CEO: Karen E. McCormack

Founded: 1957

Locations: Hanover, Lancaster, Langhorne, and York, Pa.

Employees: 1,200

Business description: Privately held, family-owned business that has developed, owned, operated, and managed senior healthcare properties: four skilled-nursing facilities (841 beds); two assisted-living residences (205 units); and two independent retirement residences (240 units).

Reputation: A recognized leader in high-quality, resident-centered, and compassionate care. Committed to helping residents "Live well, every day."

Key corporate milestones: Successful transfer of a well-established family business from first- to second-generation ownership in 2004 and celebration of the business's 50th anniversary in 2007.

President/CEO observations: During our 15-year relationship, Ross Buehler Falk has provided us significant counsel and in-depth planning, particularly with facilitating an orderly and tax-advantaged succession of our family businesses from one generation to the next.