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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Shirley Freyer
Concordia Lutheran Ministries
Tel: 1-724-352-1571 x8266
sfreyer@concordialm.org

Concordia Lutheran Ministries 2009 Year in Review

Cabot, PA – As the landscape of senior care evolved in 2009, Concordia Lutheran Ministries (CLM) continued to develop and expand.

The most notable highlight from 2009 came in October, when the organization acquired Covenant at South Hills, a Continuing Care Retirement Community in Mt. Lebanon. The facility, which is now called Concordia of the South Hills, consists of 126 one- and two-bedroom independent living apartments, 48 assisted living, 12 memory-support, and 46 skilled nursing beds. CLM’s Board of Directors approved the purchase of the facility to further enhance Concordia’s mission and future, enlarging CLM’s footprint in the senior care community of western PA.

In April, Concordia Visiting Nurses (CVN) and Meadville Medical Center jointly announced a partnership between Meadville Medical Center’s Visiting Nurses Association of Crawford County (VNA) and Alliance Visiting Nurses, an organization owned and operated by Concordia Visiting Nurses in Cabot, PA, Wesbury United Methodist Retirement Community in Meadville and St. Paul Homes in Greenville, PA.  Services provided by the new organization include a full continuum of professional homecare services.

CLM earned a prestigious designation in January, becoming one of only several CARF-CCAC accredited Aging Services Networks (ASN) in the world. An accredited ASN is defined as two or more entities that have formal agreements and cooperate with each other. One surveyor told CLM President & CEO Keith Frndak that Concordia was the broadest and most sophisticated system they have ever surveyed.

As a faith-based nonprofit organization, giving back to the community remained a fundamental initiative in 2009. Providence Pharmacy, the in-house pharmacy of CLM, generated $527,000 for local and foreign missions – including projects in the greater Pittsburgh area as well as Africa. CLM’s Good Samaritan Endowment Fund provided over $2 million in charity care to those with limited resources.