The Beechwood Home

Who We Are: The Beechwood Home is a not-for-profit; long-term care skilled-nursing facility. We offer the area’s most comprehensive services for a wide range of neurodegenerative, cerebral vascular, spinal cord, and other medical conditions. We specialize in providing high quality, long-term care together with advanced rehabilitation and restorative services, as well as therapeutic and recreational activities that optimize function and quality of life for our residents. The Beechwood Home currently has 80 beds in long-term nursing care services.

What We Do:Beechwood Home has a niche in the neurologically impaired community. There are only two other facilities in the United States that can be compared to ours, in Philadelphia and in Boston. These homes are instrumental in serving the same type of disease population as we do; a very young population, need for specialized equipment due to their immobility and progression of their diseases, uniquely experienced, trained and knowledgeable medical staff with experience in working with the (non-elderly or pediatric population). We are not a nursing home but a "home for our residents" to extend and improve their quality of life and not one to await decline and death. Most Long-Term Care Facilities' average occupancy rate is 80-85% where ours is almost always at 98-100%. Our challenge is how do we become the "best of the best", become recognized as a regional/ national leader in our area of expertise and bring our services to those who wait patiently.

Why We’re Important: Currently, the factors that determine Beechwood Home's success are that we are recognized locally as a leader in the management of neurological disorders. Our success to maintain this local niche and then to expand to a more global leader will challenge us to: • Continue to provide an extended scope of services internally and externally and leverage our major competencies to reach and improve the lives of other neurologically diseased clients. • Recognition as the leader in developing assistive and environmental technologies that enable individuals with these disorders to lead independent lives • Maintain our network of providers that offer a continuum of coordinated care for the various stages and aspects of the diseases and continue to be the provider of choice to various constituents and medical providers • Expand our knowledge, expertise, and technological advances which are shared with and supported in other facilities. Be a leader in partnering to bring technological advances to the population we serve. • To continue specialized training; we will export our unique expertise to other organizations around the world to help reach those whom we cannot directly treat • Coordinate resources to provide one information source as to what services and providers are available. Access to services in this field will be clear, transparent and available. • Maintain our commitment to superior care and a family environment for our residents and leverage our strengths.

How We Serve the Community: Our customers / market niche consists of residents who have a debilitating neurological disease (i.e. 45% Multiple Sclerosis, 16% Cerebral Palsy, 6% CVA, 2.5% Huntington's, 3% ALS, 5% Parkinson’s) mostly coming from our Tri-State area. There are additional diseases such as traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, Fredric's Ataxia, etc. There is a list of approximately 42 customers/clients awaiting admission to our facility. Our customers are willing to wait for months to have the opportunity to live in our home with a level of independence they had long ago thought was lost.

How You Can Help: Beechwood is a home primarily for people with a variety of neurological conditions, most of which are degenerative and incurable. Beechwood strives to provide the highest level of care possible to enable our residents the optimum quality of life and allow them to retain as much independence and dignity as possible. To do this, we must provide expensive high-tech equipment, training, and maintenance. In the past, we have relied on funding from Medicaid or other third-party payors. This requires many hours of documentation and justifications. We are challenged with the Medicaid funding each year, in fact, our current reimbursement is the same today as it was in 2003. This financial detriment has had a definite impact on the amount of dollars we need to care for the residents. This year, because our residents rely on the generosity of others to provide special therapeutic programs and services, we need your support more than ever. The need is to sustain our Programs and Services for our residents mean finding opportunities to fill this a gap of over $113.00 per day per Medicaid resident, which causes this vital need for help from our Friends of Beechwood!

The Beechwood Home 2140 Pogue Ave Cincinnati, Ohio 45208 513 321-9294 www.beechwoodhome.org Instagram & Facebook

Executive Director: Dr. Patricia A. Clark, CEO

Development Director (Optional): Dr. Patricia A. Clark

Board Chair: Sam Bortz, 2020-2021