Leading up to Valentine’s Day, we want to share one of our favorite love stories from our communities. Perhaps you’ll remember the Blankenship’s lovely viral video as they reunited after months apart. Watch here: https://fb.watch/3yDqU_QXRm/ And now, the background for their love story as shared recently by their daughter, Terri, … The Life & Times […]
Deborah Yetter Louisville Courier Journal Published January 22, 2021 Don Hall, 88, right, and Patsy Hall, 89, in their senior living residence at the Chapel House in Louisville, Ky. On Jan. 21, 2021. Don has already received his first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine and Patsy will receive her first dose soon. LOUISVILLE, Ky. — […]
As pharmacists from CVS and Walgreens have entered long-term care facilities to vaccine staff and residents against COVID-19, they have been resoundingly been met with cheers, leaders say. “As CVS wheeled the cart in, everyone started cheering,” Vassar Byrd, CEO of Rose Villa Senior Living, a life plan community in Portland, Oregon, said Monday during […]
The COVID-19 pandemic is sweeping the globe and right now many of us feel disconnected. We’re separated from our families and friends but the older adult population has been disproportionately affected. Beyond physical health concerns, our elderly community is dealing with feelings of loneliness and isolation. It’s important that we check in on loved ones […]
The Congressional Gold Medal Award started in 1979. 538 students from around the country earned the honor this year. Author: Sara Wagner Published: 3:23 PM EDT June 28, 2019 Updated: 10:18 AM EDT July 1, 2019 LOUISVILLE, Ky. — It is the highest honor Congress can give a youth, and we’ve got three winners right here in Kentuckiana. […]
Christian Care Communities Honored as a Finalist in Healthiest Employers® of Louisville Award applicants were evaluated across six key categories: Culture and Leadership, Foundational Components, Strategic Planning, Communication and Marketing, Programming and Interventions, and Reporting and Analysis. Completed assessments were ranked with the proprietary Healthiest Employer Index, a 1-100 metric for wellness programming. Christian Care […]
What Inspires You to Give Back?#GivingTuesday is December 3rd #GivingTuesday is a global generosity movement unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world on December 3, 2019. Created in 2012, #GivingTuesday (always the Tuesday after Thanksgiving) evolved from a very simple idea: a day that encourages people to do […]
Lucas Fortwengler (left), Tierra Beard (center) and Demetrius Gunn pose with their U.S. Congressional Gold Medals for Youth. June 26, 2019 (Photo: Lucas Aulbach/Courier Journal) Finally, some good news out of Washington, D.C. A group of young people from Kentucky were among those honored last week in the nation’s capital with the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal for […]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. —The U.S. Congressional Award gold medal is the highest honor given to youth by congress, and Christian Care Communities is working with youth across the state to achieve their goal of receiving the honor. Tierra Beard and Lucas Fortwengler, both of Louisville, are two of Kentucky’s eight recipients who will receive the award […]
Living Our Mission of Care in 2018 A quick look back and an encouraging glance at Christian Care’s course in 2019 Since 1884, Christian Care Communities has offered hope and delivered faith-inspired, compassionate care to thousands of God’s eldest children. This “legacy of care” drives our service to many of those who are simply unable […]
The year was 1871. A young woman lay dying at Louisville’s City Hospital, overcome with sadness, knowing her young son had no place to go, no one to care for him. “I have loved the church,” she told her pastor William A. Broadhurst, who was at her bedside. “It has been my desire to live […]
