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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 2, 2006
Cross Keys Village - The Brethren Home Community
Signs Two-Year Contract with the Institute
Faith-Based Organization Embraces Nationally-Recognized Shift Toward Resident
Centered Care
New Oxford, PA - Cross Keys Village - The Brethren Home
Community,
a not-for-profit, nationally accredited Continuing Care Retirement Community,
has announced that it is partnering with the Institute for Caregiver Education
to bring a social model of care to the nearly 1,000 residents on its campus.
Officials said that the move was consistent with the philosophy of care in
Christian love which has been demonstrated there since 1908.
Known in the eldercare
industry as “Cultural Transformation” or “Culture
Change,” this shift from a clinically-focused model to an individual-focused
model has been gaining the attention of eldercare consumers since the mind-1990s.
The Institute for Caregiver Education is one of the nation’s premier
providers of Cultural Transformation consultation.
“We are very excited
about our journey to Resident Centered Care,” said Tammy Herman, Vice
President for Health Services. “By partnering with the Institute, we
will have the right tools for residents, staff, families, and volunteers to
take our Community from a good organization to a great one. We believe that
eldercare needs a face lift to remove the institutional facility feel and replace
it with a community full of valuable relationships that honor and respect everyone.”
The
two-year contract with the Institute will provide Cross Keys with the
expertise and the tools necessary to move in a direction of resident centered
care. Major
project initiatives will include Cultural Transformation consultation,
neighborhood teams and the development of career ladders for staff. The Institute
for Caregiver
Education provides these services to a number of eldercare providers
throughout the country.
“We are pleased to be able to collaborate with the Cross
Keys Village - The Brethren Home Community in this new endeavor,” says
Institute for Caregiver Education President Annette Sanders. “We are
especially enthusiastic about bringing this nationally-recognized and embraced
model of eldercare to a community right in our own home state of Pennsylvania.”
A
vessel for Christian ministry reflecting the Church of the Brethren
value of compassionate service, Cross Keys promotes health and wholeness, provides
nursing
care, rehabilitation services, and adult residential housing to individuals
of all faiths.
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