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Cedar Community is proud to announce they have been identified as one the Best Nursing Homes for 2018-19 by U.S. News & World Report, a global authority in health care rankings. Cedar Community was evaluated by U.S. News & World Report along with 15,000 nursing homes nationwide, in every state. The rating is based on…
UCC-related Phoebe Ministries will honor Ronald L. Rider with the Rev. Dr. Grant Harrity Award for Exemplary Service to the Aging at their annual Institute on Aging Benefit on Thursday, March 21, in University Center at DeSales University, Center Valley, Pa. The cocktail attire event beginning at 6:00 p.m. will feature dinner, drinks, and intergenerational…
At UCC-related EHM Senior Solutions in Southeastern Michigan, requests were pouring in. Following successful treatment at EHM’s Redies Center for Rehabilitation and Healthy Living, older adults and their physicians started asking if they could continue to use some of the equipment at the center — especially the aquatic therapy pool and upright cardiac aquatic therapy…
Emmaus Homes will celebrate its 125th anniversary at a special 125th Gala Saturday, Feb. 23, 2019, at Bogey Hills Country Club in St. Charles, Mo. The evening begins at 6 p.m. with a cocktail hour, followed by dinner at 7 p.m., and a short program and dancing. The Gala is the culmination of 125 days…
The National Low Income Housing Foundation is encouraging people to sign on to its letter to end the government shutdown in order to curtail the negative effect the shutdown is having on affordable housing programs across the United States. The letter — circulated for signature by the NLIHF and other leaders of the Campaign for…
At UCC-related Peppermint Ridge — a residential community for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Corona, Calif. — the Volunteer Club meets regularly to find new ways of giving back to its neighbors. This past Christmas season, the “Ridgers” decided to make “blessing bags” for homeless persons. The bags are filled with snacks, toiletries,…
United Church Homes (UCH) and Ohio’s Hospice are teaming up to form a new nonprofit joint venture, Medicare-certified hospice program. United Church Homes residents needing hospice and palliative care soon can receive services provided by Ohio’s Hospice at United Church Homes while remaining in the comfort of their community. The new partnership aims to expand…
United Church Homes and Services knows an opportunity to celebrate its faith-based ministries when it sees it. In this case, the opportunity is the UCC’s Health and Human Service Sunday — honoring the work of CHHSM members — which will be recognized Jan. 27 in local churches across the country. Comprised of 11 communities that…
The United Church Funds Board of Directors today (Jan. 18) announced the election of the Rev. Charles Buck as the new president and CEO of the United Church Funds (UCF), the institutional investment ministry of the United Church of Christ (UCC). Buck will succeed Donald G. Hart, who announced his retirement in January 2018. Buck’s…
In 1858, UCC forebear the Rev. Louis Edward Nollau appealed to his congregation — today St. Peter’s UCC in Ferguson, Mo. — for money to build a home to support young children orphaned by a cholera epidemic. Today, as Every Child’s Hope, that home still serves the changing needs of children. The call to serve…
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United Church Homes (UCH) has been awarded a $5,000 grant from The McGregor Foundation to support educational programming for low-income older adults living at South Haven Woods, a UCH affordable hous...