Whitney Center Inc

Programs: The organization was founded to own and operate a life plan (continuing care) community that provides excellence in senior living for up to 380 residents by emphasing active engagement between residents and staff. A broad array of services is offered that allows residents to choose and use what is appropriate to their situation including housing, meals, houskeeping, activities and health care services including fitness and wellness programs, personal care, memory support care, nursing care and therapy services. The organization also offers a program of services to non-residents. -health center services - provided 22,708 days of care for patients with chronic and convalescent medical needs. -assisted living services - responded to over 600 resident emergency calls and provided various levels of assisted living services to approximately 40 residents on a regular basis. -wellness services - provided services for over 700 resident visits in the wellness clinic, wellness seminars were offered to residents and staff on a regular basis. -housekeeping & laundry services - weekly cleaning and laundry services provided to an average of 207 independent living and 15 assisted living units and daily cleaning and laundry services to an average of 48 skilled nursing residents. -dietary services - served over 150,000 meals to residents and their guests. -transportation services - the passenger bus annually provides over 1,400 runs for approximately 3,900 resident passengers and the handicapped van provided over 900 runs for approximately 1,700 resident passengers with additional runs for residents in other transportation for the purposes of medical and personal appointments, shopping, and entertainment. -use of the facility was made available to other nonprofit organizations, such as philanthropic education organization (peo), the hamden symphony orchestra, connecticut academy of arts & sciences, delta kappa gamma society international, hamden land conservation trust, connecticut z'mirah chorale, chapel haven, nami (national alliance for the mentally ill), the new haven bird club and others. Approximately 46 groups with over 2,700 attendees. -provided facilities for health, education and spiritual programs open to the local community including hamden adult education spring and fall sessions, jdrf (juvenile diabetes research foundation), hamden regional chamber of commerce, institute for learning in retirement's (ilr) weekly education classes for seniors, yale new haven hospital auxiliary health talks, and others. -sponsored cultural events such as concerts, movies, lectures and discussion groups as chosen by resident committees.