Meet The CEO – Kwame Tanner
Senior Care Entrepreneur | Assisted Living Consultant | Senior Housing Developer | Founder of SSM Advisory, Senior Service Maps & SSM Management
Kwame Tanner | Assisted Living Consultant, Senior Housing Developer & Entrepreneur
Every senior deserves compassionate care, a safe place to call home, and the support of people who care about their well-being. That belief has guided Kwame Tanner’s career for more than 18 years.
As the Founder and CEO of SSM Advisory, Senior Service Maps, and SSM Management, Kwame brings firsthand experience in assisted living development, senior care operations, and senior housing entrepreneurship. His work helps families find care and supports entrepreneurs in building successful senior care businesses.
Kwame has opened assisted living facilities in Florida, Maryland, Virginia, Texas, Delaware, New York, Nebraska, Massachusetts, Georgia, and several other states. His experience spans facility development, ownership, operations, management, and consulting, giving him a practical understanding of what it takes to bring a senior housing project from concept to opening and ongoing operation.
Kwame’s journey began in Baltimore, Maryland, where he overcame challenging circumstances to graduate from Baltimore City College High School and Morgan State University. While attending Morgan State, he became one of Baltimore City’s youngest certified general contractors and began renovating distressed properties throughout the city. His commitment to community development also led him to serve on the board of the Charles North Community Association, working to improve housing and resources for local residents.
His career took a deeply personal turn after he lost a close elderly mentor who lacked immediate family support during his final years. That experience strengthened Kwame’s commitment to creating senior housing where older adults could receive care, companionship, and dignity.
Over the past 18 years, Kwame has developed, owned, operated, and managed assisted living facilities, home care agencies, and senior care businesses. Through his companies, he has helped hundreds of seniors access care while supporting families through difficult decisions about their loved ones’ needs.
SSM Advisory — Assisted Living and Adult Day Care Consulting
SSM Advisory helps entrepreneurs, investors, healthcare professionals, and real estate developers start, license, acquire, and grow assisted living facilities and adult day care centers.
Through consulting, coaching, training, and hands-on support, Kwame helps clients work through business planning, property evaluation, facility development, licensing preparation, operational planning, and growth. His guidance draws on direct experience opening and operating senior care businesses across multiple states.
Senior Service Maps — Connecting Families With Senior Care
Senior Service Maps helps families, healthcare professionals, and social workers find assisted living facilities, memory care communities, adult day programs, home care providers, and other senior services.
The platform focuses on helping families connect with providers that fit their loved ones’ care needs, preferences, and circumstances, making the search for senior care easier to navigate.
SSM Management — Assisted Living Operations and Management
SSM Management provides operational oversight, compliance support, staffing guidance, consulting, and management services for assisted living facilities and senior care organizations.
The company helps owners strengthen day-to-day operations, support their teams, and build systems that promote quality care and sustainable business performance.
Practical Experience Across the Senior Care Industry
Kwame advises new and experienced operators on:
- Assisted living facility startup and licensing
- Adult day care startup consulting
- Assisted living operations and management
- Senior housing development
- Assisted living acquisitions
- Healthcare real estate and property evaluation
- Regulatory compliance and operational readiness
- Senior care marketing and referral development
- Occupancy growth strategies
- Business planning and startup coaching
His background combines construction, real estate development, facility ownership, and senior care operations. This allows him to help clients understand how property decisions, staffing, licensing, finances, and resident care affect one another throughout a project.
For entrepreneurs researching how to start an assisted living facility, open an adult day care center, or expand a senior care business, Kwame offers guidance grounded in more than 18 years of hands-on experience.
His mission remains simple: improve the quality of care available to seniors while helping the next generation of senior care entrepreneurs build successful, sustainable businesses.
Professional Memberships and Affiliations
- National Association of Social Workers
- American Nurses Association
- Home Care Association of America
- Better Business Bureau
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