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Concordia Visiting Nurses forms partnership with Meadville Medical Center to become VNA Alliance Concordia Visiting Nurses and Meadville Medical Center jointly announced a partnership between Meadville Medical Center’s Visiting Nurses Association of Crawford County (VNA) and Alliance Visiting Nurses, an organization owned and operated by Concordia Visiting Nurses in Cabot, PA, Wesbury United Methodist Retirement Community in Meadville and St. Paul’s in Greenville, PA. Services provided by the new organization will include a full continuum of homecare services. “This new organization, VNA Alliance, represents the dedicated commitment of four organizations with longstanding track records of excellence in healthcare,” commented Philip Pandolph, Chief Operating Officer of Meadville Medical Center. “We look forward to the opportunity of working together with Concordia Visiting Nurses, Wesbury, and St. Paul’s now and well into the future. Meadville Medical Center highly values our dedicated VNA nurses, therapists and staff, and welcomes them to this new organization.” Keith Frndak, Chairman of the Board for Alliance Visiting Nurses and Concordia Visiting Nurses added, “I am extraordinarily pleased to join with Meadville Medical Center and our partners to focus on the needs of our communities. As a direct extension of our mission, I personally see the VNA Alliance as a shared responsibility and an enduring commitment that will enable us to provide continuity of care for our neighbors and surrounding communities. We at Concordia see the merger as a very positive move that exemplifies our mutual goal to work together for those we are privileged to serve.” Don Clawson, President of Wesbury United Methodist Retirement Community added, and “The challenges of ensuring the best possible homecare should not be underestimated in our present economy. As a non-profit organization, we are pleased to continue the legacy established over the last century by The VNA of Crawford County. We are deeply committed to sharing our collective resources and experience. Together we will strive to deliver the highest quality homecare to this region.” “For many people, healing from an illness or recovering from surgery at home is the best option for both emotional and financial reasons. The VNA Alliance was developed to help people stay in their own home, even when they become ill or disabled,” commented G. Bryan Oros, Executive Director of St. Paul’s. “We’re all looking forward to working together to serve more people in their homes in Crawford County through the VNA Alliance and we’re excited about the partnership that’s taking place,” noted Beth Eckley of Alliance Visiting Nurses. “All of our clients should know that there will be no gaps in care during our transition to the VNA Alliance,” commented Rebecca Parker of The VNA of Crawford County. Over the last 8 years, I’ve personally appreciated the opportunity to serve our community, and am pleased to know that the high level of care we are honored to provide will continue through this new VNA Alliance.” C O N C O R D I A V I S I T I N G NURSES - Concordia Visiting Nurses Continued on Page 16 Grace UCC, Jeannette Grant St. Asset Management, Inc. Greens at Greenville Greenville Savings Bank Lenny & Tammy Hause Rev. & Mrs. Fred Haworth Mr. & Mrs. Howard Headland Healthcare Services Group, Inc. Hearing Healthcare Associates Highmark, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Hodge Hodge Foundry Mr. Eric Hoover Jamestown Paint Co. Ms. Patricia Jarrett Mr. & Mrs. William Johnston Mr. & Mrs. Richard Jones Joy Cone Co. Kapp Communications, Inc. Kaufman House Kidd’s Jewelry Mr. & Mrs. William Kirker Kraft Foods Landfried Paving Mr. & Mrs. W. Edwin Langbein Latsha Davis Yohe & McKenna, P.C. Mr. & Mrs. Russell Lauffer Mr. Duane Lewis Lewis & Ristvey Life Force Ambulance of Western PA Loutzenhiser-Jordon Funeral Home M & T Bank Mr. Frank Marrapese Mr. & Mrs. Harry McElwain Dr. & Mrs. David McFadden Ms. Karen Mickus Mrs. Mildred McLaughlin Mr. John Millen, Jr. John and Laura Millen N. N. Moss National Interstate Insurance Co. Mr. & Mrs. G. Bryan Oros PA Dept of Community & Economic Development Parente Randolph LLC Mr. & Mrs. Michael Pechnyo Mrs. Doris Perfett PharMerica Premier Power Solutions, LLC Pymatuning Boat Sales Mr. Larry Redfoot 4
Reese Engineering, Inc. Reese, Lower, Patrick & Scott, LTD Reynolds Dev, Water Co. & Disposal Rite Aid Foundation Mrs. Kathleen Rust Salina Office Services Corp. Sam’s Club #6327 Signature Aluminum Simplex Grinell Sodexo, Inc. St. Johns-Harrold Reformed UCC, Greensburg St. Luke’s UCC, Kittanning St. Mark’s UCC, Fredonia St. Paul Homes Auxiliary St. Paul Homes Resident Fund Acct. St. Paul’s UCC, Hermitage St. Paul’s UCC, Somerset St. Peter’s UCC, Dubois Sysco Food Services of Jamestown T.J. Kavanagh Foundation The Record Argus Thiel College Trinity Dorseyville UCC, Pittsburgh Trinity UCC, Berlin UPMC Horizon, Farrell Ms. Esther Viglio Mr. Ben Walker Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Wallace Wallace Law Firm Rev. Dr. Paul Westcoat White Electric Zion’s Reformed UCC, Greenville Mr. & Mrs. Steven Zoner Executive Director’s Club AARP-Greenville Lakeland Area Chapter Miss Frances Adams Aim Leasing Company Allegheny UCC Open Arms, Pittsburgh Alliance Rehabilitation, Inc. Amity UCC Willing Workers Class, Meyersdale Amity UCC, Meyersdale Anonymous Mr. & Mrs. Clint Appleby Aqua Pennsylvania, Inc. Arjo USA, Inc. Avalon at Buhl Park Avista Properties VII, Inc. Bair’s Corvette Ms. Regina Bates Rev. Dr. & Mrs. Joseph Beer Benefit Counselors Mr. Robert Best , Jr. Mrs. Kim Bielobocky Birmingham UCC, Pittsburgh Ms. Cathy Boyer Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Braschak Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Brown Rev. & Mrs. Ray Brugler Good Samaritan Fund Assists Residents Enclosed with this issue of St. Paul News is a letter seeking your support for the annual appeal for the Good Samaritan Fund. The Good Samaritan Fund assists residents who are no longer able to afford the full cost of their care. During 2008 over $1,180,000 in free care was provided to residents by St. Paul’s. Please consider giving a generous contribution, and use the enclosed envelope to make your gift. Mrs. Rose Bugden Mr. & Mrs. Richard Callahan Mr. & Mrs. Robert Callahan Mrs. Brenda Campbell Mrs. Evelyn Carroll Mr. & Mrs. Melford Chapman Don & Rita Clemente Cleveland Browns Cleveland Cavaliers Dr. & Mrs. Victor Colaiaco Mr. & Mrs. August Colaiaco Conneaut Lake Navigation Mr. & Mrs. George Cook Ms. Nancie Cornwall Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Cowles Transition Planned for the Gardens Neighborhood After much care and consideration, the Gardens has changed from an area designated solely for residents with dementia to a general care unit. Prior to our move to The Villas in 2005, the former Health Center had a 48-resident neighborhood called 4th Special Therapy. At that time, the unit cared for residents with early, middle and late-stage dementia. Of course, the needs of the residents between those with early-stage and those who were in the later-stages were very different. So our thought at the time was to create two units for the new building: a 24-bed unit for those in the early stages known as The Meadows and a 42-bed unit for those in the middle-to-late stages known as The Gardens. This thus restricted 66 out of our 192 rooms for dementia care. In reality, we created a set of criteria that defined who could be admitted to each of these two units. When a room became available, if we had no outside referrals who qualified based on the criteria, we then searched in-house for residents eligible for residency there. The increasing challenge however, is that unless there is a behavioral issue or health or safety concern, these residents and/or their families are reluctant to move. With this change, as vacancies arise within the Gardens neighborhood, new admissions coming to the Gardens neighborhood may or may not have dementia. It will be open to all general admissions just as our Willows, Springs and Orchards neighborhoods are. It will not be an abrupt change but a more subtle change over time. The most immediate change is that the Gardens neighborhood is no longer a “locked” 24/7 since Monday, April 13, 2009. Like all our other neighborhoods, it still is equipped with the “Secure Care System” which means that any residents identified at risk for leaving the facility or wandering into unsafe areas would be fitted with a secure care anklet which would lock down or otherwise activate alarms on the doors that would alert staff if they approached any of the doors. The Meadows neighborhood will remain a locked unit designated for residents in the early stages of dementia. We have always been committed to serving residents who struggle with this disease and as a result, do exhibit wandering or other potentially disruptive behavior or are at high risk of “elopement.” We want to continue to provide a location specific to their needs. In or- Continued on Page 17
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