Clay Center Community Matters March 2015

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March 2015

Presbyterian Manors rooted in Generosity

We often recall the story of Alice Kalb, who at 90 traveled to a 1947 Presbyterian Synod of Kansas meeting to ask for a retirement community in Kansas.

According to Edwin Shafer, senior vice president of development, what Mrs. Kalb basically told the Synod was: “If I give you all the money I have, will you build a home for the aging?” Her heart-felt offer symbolized the plight of a growing number of seniors needing the church’s help. Kalb’s initiative led a farmer from Wakarusa, Kan., to bequeath his farm to the new project. The sale of that land upon his death provided the funds for the first building of Newton Presbyterian Manor.

Today, philanthropy at PMMA is evidenced through community partnerships, capital campaigns, Good Samaritan Program giving, special projects campaigns, and planned giving.

Many of PMMA’s 18 communities were opened with the help of local fundraising campaigns. There were donations of land for the Clay Center, GENEROSITY continued on page 2

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Fort Scott, Olathe and Topeka locations. In addition, coalitions of citizens, churches and business leaders raised money for buildings in the Dodge City, Emporia, Parsons and Rolla.

Through the years, capital campaigns have enabled PMMA communities to continue expanding services and remodeling campuses. Over the past eight years, Shafer said, there have been four capital campaigns.

Ark City added a memory care assisted living neighborhood, and Clay Center added health care rooms and space for dining and activities. Newton created several neighborhoods at the health care level, and Rolla added

assisted living rooms and a community meeting room.

Good Samaritan Program

PMMA’s Good Samaritan Benevolent Care Program provides close to $4 million a year to touch the lives of nearly 400 residents, Shafer said.

Mailings are sent throughout the year to enlist support from friends. The Good Samaritan Program allows residents to remain in their apartments even after they have exhausted their financial resources.

A similar mail solicitation is conducted in late summer/early fall to benefit the Employee Scholarship Fund, which reimburses employees

for tuition for approved classes.

Some campuses have special event fundraising programs, usually benefitting each campus’s Good Samaritan Program.

Special projects

Presbyterian Manor communities have other events and efforts to raise money for special projects, often suggested and spearheaded by residents.

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Mike Derousseau, executive director Heather Germann, marketing director To submit or suggest articles for this publication, contact Heather Germann, hgermann@pmma.org.

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Missouri gets new campus; Wichita campus is reborn

This month, we conclude our look at the history of Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America as we celebrate the organization’s 65th anniversary.

In 2006, SSM Health Care of St. Louis moved its St. Joseph’s Hospital from a site in Kirkwood, Mo. As part of this hospital relocation, SSM Health Care issued a request for proposals to determine what to do with the old hospital campus site. Presbyterian Manors of MidAmerica’s proposal for a continuing care retirement community was selected as the project to be constructed on the old hospital site.

PMMA’s 18th senior living community known as Aberdeen Heights opened in September 2011.

Upon completion, Aberdeen Heights would include 243 independent living apartments, 30 assisted living apartments, 15 residential-style memory care rooms and 38 private nursing rooms. Aberdeen Heights is PMMA’s fourth senior living community in Missouri, joining the communities in Farmington, Fulton and Rolla.

Aberdeen Heights in Kirkwood, Mo. sits on the site of the former St. Joseph’s Hospital.

In August 2012, PMMA announced plans for a major repositioning of its Wichita Presbyterian Manor campus.

The project would encompass nearly two-thirds of the grounds by replacing existing independent living cottages and the assisted living and health care areas with new buildings, completed in two phases.

The first phase encompassed new assisted living apartments including 24 assisted living memory care

suites and a new health care neighborhood with dedicated short-term rehabilitation suites and new common areas for all levels of care. The amenities include a new chapel, bistro, beauty salons for independent, assisted living and health care areas and a new kitchen for the entire campus. The first phase was completed in late 2014 with health care residents moving into their new building in November, and the assisted living residents moving into their new residences in December.

Phase II of the repositioning of the Wichita campus will include 90 independent living apartments in a new three-story building known as The Westerly. This second phase began in December 2014 with demolition of the previous health care and assisted living buildings. The Westerly is slated to open in late 2015.

The first phase of Wichita Presbyterian new construction was completed in 2014. The second phase is slated to open in late 2015.

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Coming up in Community Matters: Community Matters will focus on Older American’s Month in an upcoming issue.

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communities, he said. Donors may designate which location will benefit.

Planned giving

“Even our newest campus, Aberdeen Heights, already has individuals who are including Aberdeen Heights in their estate plans.

“We promote gifts through wills and trusts as way for someone to ‘pay it forward,’” Shafer said. Wills and trusts have resulted in millions of dollars given to PMMA through the years. All of those funds are invested in the 6 COMMUNITY MATTERS MARCH 2015

“Seventeen of our 18 communities have benefitted from estate gifts,” Shafer said.

Shafer said one of the most popular estate planning gifts is the charitable

gift annuity. It is referred to as a “life income gift.” because the donor receives income for his or her lifetime at a specified percentage based on the donor’s age at the time of the gift.

Donors for these annuities must be at least 65. Generally, older donors will receive a higher return rate, Shafer said. For more information about Planned Giving, contact Shafer at eshafer@pmma.org or call 800-336-8511.