On the Plus Side

Mother’s Day was Sunday, May 14th. In honor of the event, sons and daughters around the country usually treat their mothers to brunch, bring them flowers, and generally do whatever they can to make...

The Staff and Board of Directors would like to welcome the following individuals to LeadingAge Kansas: Caitlin Strawderman is the new(er) Executive Director at Via Christi Village in Pittsburg. She has been there since October.Philip...

As an active member of LeadingAge, senior living communities like Larksfield Place are called on by Carol Silver Elliott, LeadingAge board of directors chair, to share the positive stories of life in our senior...

Smith Center, Kan. - SunPorch has been awarded a $25,000 grant through the Kansas Health Foundation’s Impact and Capacity Grants (ICG) initiative. This funding will help support Staff enhancement and the procurement of much...

At Bluestem Communities we celebrated life (social distancing style) with our 400+ independent living residents! We drove by our neighborhoods at Kidron Bethel Village (North Newton) and Schowalter Villa (Hesston) and shared music, dancing...

We would like to reprise our Heroes in Aging Stories by highlighting the heroes working in your communities during the pandemic. There has never been a better time to recognize the wonderful people working...

PMMA: With a little help from a Wichita area sign-maker, PMMA (Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America) has shown the love to their team members at all 16 of their communities (14 in Kansas and 4...

Dodge City, Kan. - The staff at SunPorch of Dodge City believed they were doing a good job of helping prevent the spread of COVID-19. Now they have proof they were right. Zero deficiencies were...

Here are two articles where the folks at Larksfield Place in Wichita were quoted: https://seniorhousingnews.com/2020/04/24/senior-living-providers-fear-covid-19-backslide-as-some-states-reopen-for-business/ https://seniorhousingnews.com/2020/04/27/with-40-of-frontline-workers-under-financial-hardship-senior-living-providers-step-up-support/

Kidron Bethel Village, Bluestem Communities, North Newton, KS Despite COVID-19, residents and their families are getting creative with their birthday celebrations! We have seen fun signs and decorations across campus. The 85 sign was placed...

Congratulations to Kansas Soldier’s Home for a deficiency-free infection control survey this week.

WICHITA, Kan. – PMMA’s (Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America’s) newly redesigned community websites won two platinum awards for business to consumer websites and website design from the Hermes Creative Awards competition. The 2020 Art is...