Sunrise Senior Living of Lynnwood is having a tour of their homes on Thursday, June 15, from 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm. Join them for a remodel update and hard hat tour to discover the changes that are occurring and what is to come for this wonderful community. Justin Embry, Executive Director, will be leading the Q&A time with their professional partners. Small groups will be led on a hard had tour while others stay behind and sample some delicious food. Bring your business card to enter the drawing. There are some wonderful gifts for the home.
Call or email to RSVP!
Sunrise of Lynnwood
425-776-3600
lynnwood.dos@sunriseseniorliving.com
After months of planning and negotiation, Housecall Providers became an official member of CareOregon yesterday, but will continue as a separate nonprofit, retaining its name, current providers, patients, services and location.
This strategic partnership is designed to increase access to and enhance home-based medicine across the Portland metro area.
“Our long relationship made CareOregon the ideal choice when we began looking for a partner that could help us grow and strengthen our services,” said Terri Hobbs, Housecall Providers executive director. “We knew they shared our same goals, values and nonprofit status, and would enable us to continue as a unique entity, but with a strong, innovative partner backing us.”
Housecall Providers’ board and executive leadership were drawn to the structure and array of coordinated care services offered through CareOregon. More care options mean that the chronically ill patients served by the medical nonprofit will have their health needs addressed in a way that many have never experienced before, certainly not in a home environment. Additional support for providers allows for their patient panels to increase over time so more people will be able to take advantage of home-based medicine.
“Through this partnership, Housecall Providers will bring decades worth of experience delivering home-based medical care to an innovative health plan whose vision is for all individuals, regardless of income or social circumstances, to experience the best health possible,” Hobbs stated.
Click here to read the full press release.
We are excited to announce that Housecall Providers and CareOregon have signed an agreement as the first step toward a strategic partnership designed to increase access to and enhance home-based medicine across the Portland metro area. We anticipate that Housecall Providers will become a nonprofit LLC in the CareOregon family on May 31.
Housecall Providers and CareOregon share similar missions, goals and a commitment to underserved populations. We welcome their expertise in helping providers develop new operational strengths and greater service integration. Housecall Providers will essentially be a separate entity, keeping our name, providers and patients, services and location.
“We are thrilled with the prospect of working more fully with CareOregon, a longtime partner that shares our mission-driven commitment to vulnerable populations,” said Terri Hobbs, Housecall Providers executive director. “We believe this partnership will assist us in caring for more chronically ill people, while strengthening our team approach to home-based medicine.”
The Oregon-based community benefits company has been involved in health plan services, reforms and innovations since 1994, serving Oregon Health Plan (Medicaid) and Medicare members, and their communities.
Housecall Providers will continue to receive patients through our historical referral sources and over time, we plan to increase access to more chronically ill patients, both from CareOregon and other payers.
Click here to read the full press release.
I am excited to share with you breaking news — Congress has included our requested $400 million increase in Alzheimer’s research funding at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and is expected to approve this increase later this week. For the second consecutive year, Congress has heard and answered the call of the Alzheimer’s Association and taken historic action.
The bipartisan congressional effort was spearheaded by Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), and Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.) and comes on the heels of 1,300 advocates participating in the Alzheimer’s Association Advocacy Forum in Washington, D.C., and intense work by our sister organization, the Alzheimer’s Impact Movement (AIM).
With this action, Alzheimer’s research funding by the federal government will reach nearly $1.4 billion. This nearly threefold increase over five years in NIH funding for Alzheimer’s disease is a monumental accomplishment. Most importantly, it continues the ramp-up to providing Alzheimer’s researchers with the resources they so urgently need if we are to achieve the 2025 objective of preventing and effectively treating Alzheimer’s.
Today’s announcement would not have happened without your relentless work. Our work together as the Alzheimer’s Association and through AIM by all of our dedicated advocates and the generous supporters of both AIM and the Association have made this next step possible. Thank you for all of your contributions to making all of our advances possible.
We have much more yet to do, but please do pause and recognize what you’ve done, what we’ve accomplished together to bring us another step closer to a world without Alzheimer’s.
Read the joint statement from the Association and the Alzheimer’s Impact Movement.
Portland, OR – Radiant Senior Living is expanding its 4-building assisted and memory care community in Gresham with a newly constructed memory care building.
The new memory care building at Farmington Square Gresham is being constructed on vacant land in the northwest corner of the campus. Farmington Square Gresham is located on NE Hogan Drive between Northeast 18th and 20th Streets in Gresham.
Construction of the building is due to be completed June 2017. “We’re proud to have the opportunity to expand Farmington Square Gresham to meet the needs of the increasing number of memory care residents in Gresham and the surrounding area,” said James Guffee, President and CEO for Radiant Senior Living.
The new building has been specifically designed as a state-of-the-art Memory Care Center. The building will feature 15 units of secure memory care services for up to 26 residents with specialized programming for the unique needs of memory care residents.
About Farmington Square Gresham: Farmington Square Gresham is an assisted and memory care community. The commitment to residents with memory care needs allows Farmington Square Gresham to focus on stabilization and custom care for each individual. For more information about Farmington Square Gresham, please visit their website, http://www.farmingtonsquare-gresham.com/
About Radiant Senior Living: Radiant Senior Living is owned and operated by James and Jodi Guffee who, along with their family, have been dedicated to providing the highest quality living options for seniors for over 40 years. Radiant Senior Living operates 18 communities in Oregon, Washington, Montana, and Colorado. For more information on Radiant Senior Living and their communities please visit their website, www.radiantseniorliving.com.
The Cedar Creek community is on schedule to open this Summer. At Cedar Creek, they are dedicated to, and will be, the premiere Memory Care Community in Edmonds!
The focus of this month’s Construction Update includes the courtyards of the community. Although they do not have any actual pictures, we have been provided with artist renderings of the courtyards on both floors. Great timing that the community opens at the time of year that the outdoor areas will be most utilized!
To learn more about the Cedar Creek community visit them online at: www.cedarcreekedmonds.com
Koenig Financial Group welcomes Jeff Janeway, Financial Advisor and CRPC® (Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor℠) professional who left Merrill Lynch on January 24th.
“Jeff’s practice compliments what we’ve built here at Koenig Financial Group,” says Mike Koenig, founder. “I have been wanting to add another advisor to the firm for several years, but haven’t found the right person until now. Jeff’s focus on Retirement and Estate Planning needs for seniors adds to what we are already doing, but he also brings in a depth of knowledge on values based investing for those who want their investments to be aligned with social or environmental concerns.”
“I love the work that I do,” says Janeway, who has done special training for seniors through the University of Southern California’s Davis School of Gerontology. “The financial industry is complex and to help people, especially vulnerable seniors, make good financial decisions is really satisfying.”
Koenig Financial Group is a financial planning firm that has been in downtown Edmonds since 1994.
Koenig Financial Group representatives offer securities and advisory services through KMS Financial Services, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc. (NYSE MKT: LTS, LTS PrA). KMS Financial Services, Inc., is a Seattle-based registered broker dealer and investment advisory firm serving clients through a network of more than 300 investment professionals located predominantly in the Pacific Northwest.
Stunned by the death of Debbie Reynolds just one day after the death of her daughter, Carrie Fisher, grief and medical experts began affirming that Broken Heart Syndrome is actually a medical condition.
Debbie Reynolds was in the midst of planning her daughter’s funeral when she suffered a fatal stroke.AMNW invited Georgena Eggleston, M.A. to speak more about Broken Heart Syndrome because Georgena had also planned the funeral of her child.
Learn more about the roller coaster of “Healthy Grief” and what to do and say when you or someone you love is on this wild ride.
View KATU story
Tacoma, WA – Locally grown Sound Options announced today that it had been named the Leader In Excellence award winner in the 2017 Best of Home Care® awards.
Located on Tacoma’s 6th Avenue, Sound Options now ranks in the top 5% of homecare agencies surveyed nationwide, also winning the 2017 Best of Home Care® Provider of Choice and Employer of Choice awards. Home Care Pulse is the homecare industry’s leading firm in performance benchmarking and quality satisfaction, serving over 1600 businesses throughout North America.
Founded in 1989 by Mary Lynn Pannen RN, Sound Options provides Care Management and Homecare services throughout the Puget Sound. “We feel privileged to be able to provide aging solutions for families throughout the Puget Sound,” says Pannen. “Our team of care professionals is compassionate and well trained. Homecare is about making a connection in the home and our caregivers are always focusing on how to engage their client, how to make their life better.”
Only 4 companies in Washington State earned this high distinction.
Visit Sound Options online
For those of you who have individuals who utilize the Cherriots bus system, it is important to know that on January 3rd, 2017, some routes will have different numbers but in general, will serve the same stops and areas as they currently do. What may cause confusion for individuals accessing Cherriots, are the different numbers on the bus signs and the different numbers at the bus bays at the transportation centers. For example, the current route number 1 that travels from Keizer Transit Center to South Salem will not exist any longer in the new system. Route 19 will travel down Broadway and River Road from Keizer Transit Center and the Downtown Transit Center and Route 21 will travel to South Commercial and the Downtown Transit Center in January. If anyone has any questions please don’t hesitate to contact the Cherriots Customer Service or consult the Cherriots website that will be updated with the new route information 2 weeks prior to January 3rd.
