Tallgrass Creek Residents Knit and Crochet 75 Red Hats for Little Hats, Big Hearts...
Tallgrass Creek retirement community’s Creative Hands group this week made 75 red hats for Little Hats, Big Hearts, a nationwide program to knit and crochet red hats for babies born in February at participating...
Partnership Creates Possibilities with Sunshine Meadows
Written by Carla Barber, Sunshine Meadows in Buhler
Nyoka, a small ball python, made a big impression when the Sedgwick County Zoo visited Sunshine Meadows Retirement Community in Buhler on January 10th.
The snake caused excitement...
Way to Advocate, Barbara Whitney
Barbara Whitney, Administrator at Fowler Residential Care in southwest Kansas, recently attended the “going away” party for the district’s new state representative, Boyd Orr. She wished him well and clued him in about major...
Challenge: Do Your Legislators Have Your Cell Phone Number in Their Phone?
Linda Peters, Executive Director of Kidron Bethel Village in North Newton, recently had lunch with her new state representative Tim Hodge. She provided the KBV fact sheet (view and download the template) and talked about...
Tallgrass Creek Residents Make New Year Resolutions to Stay Healthy Fit throughout 2017
Tallgrass Creek retirement community residents have resolved to stay healthy and fit throughout 2017. And their intense schedule of health and wellness programs is already helping them keep their New Year resolutions.
As Fitness Coordinator...
Welcome to LeadingAge Kansas
We have a couple of new individuals at LeadingAge Kansas Member organizations. Please join us in welcoming them!
Amanda Atkisson has been named the new administrator at Solomon Valley Manor in Stockton. Welcome back to...
Mission Village, Kidron Bethel and Phillips Co. Retirement Center Educating Their Legislators
Last week, Patricia Raasch of Mission Village in Horton met with her state representative Randy Garber. She discussed with him in great depth about CMS enforcement and the medicaid backlog issues. He left with...
Tallgrass Creek Launches its Facebook Page
Tallgrass Creek retirement community recently launched their Facebook page.
The Tallgrass Creek Facebook page is a communications tool to show progress about the community’s site work and construction, provide news about key milestones and post information about...
Congratulations Rachel
Rachel Monger, our Government Affairs Director for the last 5 years, has been promoted to Vice President of Government Affairs. LeadingAge Kansas President/CEO Debra Zehr says, “Rachel has been a tremendous asset to our...
Ensz Good for His Word
Recently we reported that Orie Ensz, Administrator at Good Samaritan Society-Parsons met with his state representative and planned to reach out to his new state senator as well. Well, that he did. He dropped...
Way to Go Lakeview Village – Our Latest Legislative Champion!
Lakeview Village in Lenexa had a great visit with their new state senator, Dinah Sykes, when she responded to their invitation to visit their campus recently. Senator-Elect Sykes saw Lakeview’s great services and programs...
Another Advocate Emerges…. Are You Reaching Out, Too?
Kudos to Orie Ensz, Administrator at Good Samaritan Society-Parsons, for being an advocacy champion for LeadingAge Kansas members and the people you all serve! Orie has had a couple of good conversations with state...