Page 13 - 2021 Impact Report

Samaritas Senior Living in Grand Rapids
has many wonderful projects throughout
the year, which recently included a very
special one for ArtPrize.

Dayna Roe, the director of our Memory
Care program, created, with the
residents, an ability and interest-based
1,166 program that they worked on all summer.

Their intent and finished project, raised
garden beds, represents adults with
persons served dementia and their care partners.

The beautiful, raised bed planters, that
92.6% overall satisfaction score (across all five spell out I AM, are full of vibrant
locations and levels of care) Samaritas purple petunias. The
864 new admissions during 2021 installation is ability neutral allowing
235 employees and 77 community members received residents to have access to the plants
while kneeling, standing, or using a
dementia training by our staff
wheelchair or walker.
Reduced use of antipsychotic and/or anxiolytic

medications by 11% among memory care residents
“We just stood with the residents, and I
(Grand Rapids, The Lodge) asked them questions. I said, tell me
90% of dementia residents in our memory care center what you’re capable of, they said, I can
were able to maintain their level of ADL functionality cook, I can bake. I can forgive, I can bless,
(10% above the 80% threshold) I can love, and I think their answers were
Our Senior Living communities hosted a total of 15 so profound because they were so social
vaccine clinics, and provided COVID vaccines for in nature,” said Roe.

1,500 staff and residents.
“We took that positive messaging, turned
it into a piece of art, something that's
growing and living and we were really
moved by it and we thought, well, this
needs to be our message to the
community.”