Aquinas Senior Living Scales Teton’s AI Monitoring to 99.8% Adoption

STATE COLLEGE, PA - April 30, 2026 (NEWMEDIAWIRE) - Aquinas Senior Living, Inc., a pioneer in tech-enabled, empathetic senior care, today announced the expansion of its integrated resident safety ecosystem powered by Teton, the proactive care platform for senior living communities. Following a benchmark-setting deployment of Teton’s monitoring platform at Heritage Springs Memory Care in Montoursville, ASL has successfully launched the system at its Wynwood House communities in State College and Centre County, achieving near-universal resident and family adoption. Building on this momentum, Aquinas activated the Teton system at the Wynwood House State College location on April 1, 2026. On April 8, 2026, the Wynwood House Nittany Valley site in Centre County also went live. Across these Wynwood House communities, resident and family adoption has reached 99.8%, with only a single family across the entire rollout opting out.

Teton’s AI technology and monitoring system does four things: creates clarity across communities, detects changes in residents’ health early, alerts care staff to act early, and enables more tailored and person-to-person care. Teton is a passive optical sensor installed in resident rooms with a minimal footprint that requires no resident interaction, no wearables, no manual calibration, and no charging. Privacy is engineered into how the system works, not added as an afterthought - no video is streamed live, and no audio is captured, and the system processes movement data locally on-site. Care teams receive safety signals and, when needed, brief anonymized clips, not a live video feed. The platform is HIPAA compliant and SOC 2 certified. This approach is grounded in Teton’s own research: an analysis of more than 2,000 falls across four countries found that measurable signals, including night-time movement patterns, sleep disruption, and changes in respiration, consistently precede falls by hours or days, giving care teams the opportunity to intervene before an incident occurs. The technology integrates directly into clinical workflows, enabling care teams to act on insights within the systems they already use, without adding administrative burden or requiring staff to monitor separate dashboards.

As part of this expansion, one of Aquinas’s Pennsylvania facilities is currently serving as the official Beta test site for the integrated E-call resident call system. This technology folds traditional resident assistance requests directly into the Teton.ai dashboard. By unifying fall detection and manual assistance requests into a single interface, Aquinas is eliminating “alarm fatigue” and allowing staff to prioritize the most critical resident needs in real time. The Aquinas roadmap continues to accelerate through the spring: November 2025 saw Heritage Springs (Montoursville) achieve 100% adoption, April 1, 2026 saw Wynwood House (State College) go live, April 8, 2026 saw Wynwood House (Nittany Valley/Centre County) go live, and in May 2026, the Teton platform is scheduled for adoption at the Lewisburg community. “What we saw in Montoursville was the proof of concept; what we are seeing today in State College and Centre County is proof of scale with near universal adoption,” said Stephen J. Schmid, President and CEO of Aquinas Senior Living. “Our residents and their families aren’t just accepting this technology - they are embracing it. They recognize that a ‘proven and fully adopted’ system is the best path to ensure the highest standard of safety in modern senior living communities.” “By integrating Teton’s computer-vision AI with our new E-call resident response system, we are moving away from disparate ‘point solutions’ toward a truly unified ecosystem,” added Jim Burnham, Chief Operating Officer. “This ensures that whether a resident pushes a button or the AI detects a potential risk, our team is there exactly when they are needed.” “The reality of moving care from reactive to proactive is that it goes beyond operational gains, it changes the quality of life for residents. A fall that doesn’t happen, a hospitalization avoided, a family member who sleeps better at night knowing their loved one is safe,” said Katie Grant, President, U.S., Teton. “Memory care is one of the most demanding care environments there is, and it is exactly where having the right information at the right moment makes the greatest difference.” Learn more about Aquinas Senior Living at aquinasseniorliving.com and Teton at www.teton.ai.