With the goal of making this dream a reality, both the Marquis Companies and Consonus Healthcare Services partnered to create The Vital Life Foundation in 2008, aiming to provide meaning and vitality in the lives of seniors. Together, the two sister companies then worked with Wish of a Lifetime (WOL), a non-profit foundation designed to fulfill life-enriching wishes to seniors — and the result was a four-day trek to Washington D.C. that would become known as “The Journey of Heroes.”