Bethany Homes

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• CHSP has leveraged grant money from foundations totaling more than $1.5 million.
• CHSP has become one piece of our licensed assisted living program for seniors living on Supplemental Security Income (SSI).
• The CHSP Professional Assessment Committee includes 6-8 community healthcare volunteers who review care plans for every participant.
• CHSP enabled us to qualify for an Assisted Living Conversion Program grant from HUD, renovating 33 apartments for full handicapped accessibility.
• CHSP is the foundation for a la carte services provided to non qualifying residents who pay affordable prices doubling the number of seniors served.

A retired teacher has no family. Her depression is controlled with medication. She is insulin dependent, has oxygen for chronic lung disease, and is seriously obese so she cannot walk or care for personal hygiene. We adapted her unit and shower to accommodate an oversize wheelchair.

This widower has short term memory loss helped by a notepad written in logbook format. He has serious balance problems and uses a walker, suffers from chronic urinary incontinence which requires support with laundry and bathing. He is on a self administered medication management plan.

Miss A originally lived with her mother when a home for retarded adults was closed. She had some difficult adjustments after her mother died, but with mental health consults, the meal program, and our wellness nurses, she is living independently.

He is 100. He came from a nursing home with serious dementia. He was unkempt and needed personal hygiene help. He had lost a significant weight. Accommodations were made for dementia, he was provided meals; staff assisted with personal hygiene. He has become an avid bowler and won gold medals at the Commonwealth Senior Olympics.

Mrs. D was discharged from a nursing home with a feeding tube that was the result of a stroke at age 95. Nursing home staff was very doubtful that she could survive, but she continues to thrive in an environment that encourages independence. She has not returned to the feeding tube.

Along with safe, secure, and sanitary housing Bethany is "A Way of Life, not Just a Place to Live" because of CHSP!

Bethany Homes/Merrivista
100 Water Street
Haverhill, MA 01830
978-374-2168
http://www.bethanyhomes.net/BthMerrivista.html

Good nutrition and socialization are keys to good health.

Personal choose and personal care encourage independence
and good mental health.

Health monitoring and supportive education are preventive
medicine and result in good health.