Page 3 - Jewish Home Family Annual Report 2019

Dear friends,
As we reflect on the past year at the Jewish Home Family, it is clear that we are in a time of great growth and change. We’re on the brink of moving forward with our Second Century project and we are excited about not just the project itself but what it means for our future.
Our planning efforts began nearly four years ago, based on substantial market research and the input of many members of both our boards and professional staff. Our first priority was, and is, the development of a new Center for Rehabilitation Excellence and we look forward to opening that facility in early 2021.
Why does rehabilitation matter to us? We know that subacute rehabilitation has become a bigger and bigger part of the work that we do. We help individuals, of all ages and with a multitude of health conditions, to both recover and achieve an optimal quality of life. Aging is not just about getting older, it is about maximizing those years and rehabilitation plays a major role in making that possible.
Our new rehab center will not only give us the space we need to add the latest treatments and equipment, it will also give us room to care for outpatients, people who want to continue with us after discharge from our inpatient service and people who are living in the community and need our care. We’ll also be the first and only center to offer warm water aquatic therapy, which has tremendous benefit for healing and ongoing health improvement. Along with this new center, we will be adding a new inpatient building, creating a healing environment in 60 beautiful new rooms.
Rehab expansion is only part of this project although an important one. Equally important is the transformation of the long term care experience, taking place simultaneously with the construction project. Working with the Green House Project, we are moving the care of our elders to a new paradigm and a new level. Green House homes provide an experience for elders that is focused on three core values — real home, meaningful life and empowered staff. We
will create real home by dividing our long term care units at the Jewish Home at Rockleigh, and Memory Lane at Jewish Home Assisted Living, into small households. These households will be staffed by multi-skilled workers, who interact with the elders almost like members of an extended family.
Our goal with Green House is to normalize life for the elders we care for and to develop deep knowing of each of these individuals. Normalized life means that each person directs their own choices and experiences as much as possible. From the simplest things, like when someone wants to get up and eat breakfast to developing programs and activities that are elder-directed, Green House changes the way we are organized, the way we work and even the way we think about care.
The Jewish Home has a long and venerable history. In 2020, we will be 105 years old, a great and noteworthy achievement. But it is not the years that matter as much as the impact we have had, touching countless
lives over more than a century, making a difference for individuals and our community.
We look forward to continuing our leadership role, to reaffirming our strong and abiding commitment to enriching the lives of older adults and to, indeed, “Advancing the Art of Living.”
All the best,
Carol Silver Elliott