Senior Services News

(Newtown Square, Pa.) — The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded White Horse Village a five-star rating for outstanding care and service. CMS created the Five-Star Quality Rating System—recognized as the gold standard in quality and safety rankings—in 2008 to help consumers, families and caregivers compare nursing homes. The five-star rating is the highest possible rating.

The first ever Newsweek/Statista list of the 250 best CCRCs in the country has been released. Landis Homes in Lititz, PA is ranked #9 in the nation for 2024.

(Newtown Square, Pa.) — White Horse Village announces the appointment of Michael Shaw as the new President & CEO, effective December 1, 2023.

Phillip Hanold, a health policy administration student at Penn State University, recently completed an internship with Foxdale Village Retirement Community. He is also working there part-time as he completes his schooling. This internship, which Friends Services Alliance coordinated, was incredibly meaningful for Phillip. He shares his experience in this narrative.

LeadingAge PA, the leading voice for aging services in Pennsylvania, is pleased to announce it recently awarded Baptist Senior Family in Pittsburgh, PA a $50,000 grant through the Association’s Administrator-in-Training (AIT) Grant program.

MECHANICSBURG, Pa. (Oct. xx, 2023) — A new survey of LeadingAge PA member nursing homes confirms that the professional caregiver worker shortage has shown no sign of improving. This comes at a time when state and federal governments are set to increase staffing mandates — leading most of the nonprofit and mission-driven communities surveyed to turn away residents who desperately need long-term care. Read the survey results in full here.