About The Avante Group

For over 30 years, Avante has specialized in skilled nursing, assisted living, rehabilitation, and post-acute services. Our associates are committed individuals, who desire to create an environment that fosters wellness, integrity, and success. At Avante, you will have the opportunity for advancement, learn new skills, meet new people, build rewarding professional and personal relationships, and improve the quality of life of those around you.

A PROMISE KEPT

Samuel Klurman of blessed memory, had a vision for a place that would care for people with compassion and treat them with dignity and respect. As he prepared to implement his vision in the early 1960s, Sam shared his idea, along with all his other thoughts, with his wife and life-long partner Sisel. She was very interested in the concept and asked Sam to take her to such a place so she could see for herself what he had in mind to build.

A NEW FOUNDING

The Klurmans toured a nursing home. Sam was eager to hear Sisel's thoughts about the facility and hoped he could count on her support for his new endeavor. Without thinking twice, Sisel agreed that this would be a wonderful business as long as Sam promised her that in their nursing homes no patient would be left alone or ignored, as they saw happen on the tour that day. He made that promise, and it is from there that Avante developed its core value: caring for patients with dignity and compassion above all else

A PAST FILLED WITH PAIN

The Klurmans had a very difficult past. Sam grew up in Poland and when he was 17 the Nazis reached his home. Sam helped his parents and five siblings find a safe hiding place so he could plan an escape. At the same time, he joined the Partisans, an underground Jewish rebel force. Tragically, that is the last time he saw his entire family. While he was away, they were taken by the Nazis and murdered. Sam spent the next few years living in the forests of Eastern Europe and continuing to fight the Nazis.