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August 6, 2010 - Beatitudes Campus Annual Report – Balancing the Art and Science of Caring
The Beatitudes Campus Foundation is proud to share its 2009 Annual Report, entitled Balancing the Art and Science of Caring. We invite you to explore the program highlights and other accomplishments of last fiscal year. We also extend sincere gratitude to our generous benefactors who help meet the spiritual, physical, social, emotional, and financial needs of the residents we serve. Click here to view the 2009 Annual Report.
July 30, 2010 - A Warm Welcome to Dr. Scherich and His Team!
Earlier this month, we welcomed Dr. Thomas Scherich and his team to the Beatitudes Campus! Dr. Scherich is from John C. Lincoln Physician Network and offers on-site physician services to our residents and staff. They are located in the first floor of the South Plaza Building and their hours are Monday – Thursday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Dr. Scherich is Board Certified with the American Osteopathic Board of Family Physicians. We are very excited about this new partnership and are happy to have Dr. Scherich and John C. Lincoln Physician Network as part of our health care team!
July 23, 2010 - Elvis has Entered the Building - For One Very Special Performance! 
On July 16, 2010 Donald Trampani, an Elvis impersonator, performed on the Beatitudes Campus Vermilion Cliffs neighborhood in our Health Care Center. This neighborhood serves residents with moderate to severe Alzheimer’s disease or other dementias. The event was coordinated through Hospice of the Valley who invited Mr. Trampani to perform for hospice patients including Beatitudes Campus residents. Mr. Trampani or “Elvis” is also a hospice patient and was diagnosed with lung cancer in August of last year. It was an amazing act of courage and compassion for this man to perform for our residents and staff and we are truly grateful! Click the link below to see news coverage of his visit:
http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_phoenix_metro/central_phoenix/%27elvis%27-spreads-joy-to-valley-hospice-patients
June 25, 2010 - Peggy Mullan featured in AZ Woman Who's Who in Business 2010
Beatitudes Campus President & CEO, Peggy Mullan, was featured in the AZ Woman Who’s Who in Business Magazine 2010 edition! Click here and scroll to page 2 to view. We congratulate Peggy for this acknowledgement and for her continued leadership and dedication to our Campus. We also celebrate all Top Women in Business for 2010! [Read Article]
June 18, 2010 - Campus CNA receives ASA Excellence in Service Award!
Nora Yohn, a 29-year Beatitudes Campus employee and Health Care Center Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) received the Excellence in Service Award granted by Aging Services of Arizona (ASA). She was acknowledged with this prestigious award at ASA’s 27th Annual Conference, along with her peers and family members. We congratulate Nora for her accomplishment and her continued dedication to the residents and staff of the Beatitudes Campus!
June 4, 2010 - First Wednesdays at the Beatitudes Campus – Mark Trombino 
The First Wednesdays educational series continued in June with Mark Trombino, who is 36-years-old and 3-foot, 3-inches tall. He is also an amazing motivational speaker, author, local actor, and proud father! Mark’s inspiring presentation was entitled “Making a Difference in the World, Despite Your Differences” and he shared some of his life experiences, challenges, and his dedication to making a positive difference in the world. To learn more about Mark Trombino visit www.motivationalsmalltalk.com.
April 12, 2010 - Go, Whoppers, Go! 
The “Beatitudes Whoppers” – no this is not an item on our menu it’s the name of our resident Wii Bowling League! Currently, we have seven residents who are part of the team and meet weekly to play other Wii teams from different parts of the country. The Whoppers are sponsored by MCL Enterprises, owner of several local Burger King restaurants – we appreciate their support of our team!
The Whoppers play two games each Thursday and submit the scores to the National Senior League’s website and by Monday they know if they have won or lost. The game is kept score like a regular bowling game and each player controls where to stand and how to throw the ball using the Wii remote. Residents can play either standing or sitting to accommodate varying mobility levels. The first tournament ended this month with the Whoppers coming in 5th out of 8 teams.
“Walking around the Campus on game day and you see the team wearing their bowling shirts, you can feel the sense of pride they have for their teammates,” says Jon Schilling, Beatitudes Campus Recreation & Wellness Coordinator. “Most importantly, you can feel the companionship with each team member.”
The Wii bowling games are a great addition to our recreation and event planning and they also provide a chance for bowlers to have fun, socialize, and stay active – ultimately enriching the lives of our residents! We wish them luck in their next tournament, which begins this summer – Go, Whoppers, Go!
April 9, 2010 - Laugh through Life! 
The First Wednesdays at the Beatitudes Campus educational event, entitled Laugh through Life,helped residents and guests reduce stress and reconnect with their inner child through laughter!
On April 7th, Certified Laughter Leader, Laurie Nathanson, entertained and educated guests about how laughter really is the best medicine and can help us become more resilient to the stresses and strains of everyday life. Through fun exercisers, she provided tips for how to deal with stress, including stretching, breathing – and of course laughter!
Nathanson shared, “Laughter reduces stress and promotes relaxation by lowering blood pressure, improving breathing, and increasing muscle function. And it allows adults to rediscover their inner child.”
To learn more about Certified Laughter Leaders and the World Laughter Tour, visit www.worldlaughtertour.com.
April 2, 2010 - Beatitudes Campus Resident Receives Congressional Gold Medal - Geri Nyman Honored for Serving as a Women Airforce Service Pilots, WASP. [ Full Release]
March 1, 2010 - State of the Campus Address
On February 25, 2010 we held the very first State of the Campus Address. More than 200 residents, staff, family members and off-Campus guests attended. The purpose of the address was to share our progress from the past year, where we stand today, and where the Beatitudes Campus is headed in 2010. If you would like to view the full-text version of the State of the Campus Address, please click here.
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February 15, 2010 - First Wednesdays at the Beatitudes Campus Series Continues - Certified Laughter Leader to Share how Laughter is the Best Medicine!
PHOENIX – The Beatitudes Campus continues its special topics educational series entitled First Wednesdays at the Beatitudes Campus. The series will offer Phoenix residents an opportunity to visit our community and hear about various topics including organic gardening, specialty cooking, health and wellness, arts and culture, nature, geology, travel, and new technology. The Campus has created the educational series to serve as a resource to the broader community. [Read Full Release]
February 12, 2010 - Helping your Garden Grow – Horticulture Expert Presents at the Beatitudes Campus 
For the February First Wednesdays educational series at the Beatitudes Campus, we invited author, speaker, and desert horticulture consultant, Mary F. Irish to share her knowledge about gardening in the southwest. Her presentation provided tips to help anyone start a small garden in almost any yard or setting. Mary served for 11 years as the Director of Public Horticulture at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix. Learn more about gardening from her website at: www.maryirish.com. The Beatitudes Community Garden Club, a resident-run garden group, invited Mary to speak and club members, among other guests, were on hand to learn more about gardening in Arizona (see photo at right).
January 15, 2010 - The Beatitudes Campus is remembering Dr. Dolores “Dee” Nelson as a beloved resident, friend, supporter and visionary of our community. She is also the wife of the Rev. Dr. Culver “Bill” Nelson, our Founding Pastor Emeritus. 
Dee, in her eighty-fourth year, passed away peacefully in the presence of her family on November 21, 2009. A distinguished musician and community leader, her marriage of 62 years to the Rev. Dr. Culver H. Nelson made her a key figure in the founding and development of both Church of the Beatitudes and the Beatitudes Campus. Born in Graham, Texas, raised in Grand Junction, Colorado, Dee served during the Second World War as Executive Assistant to the Geologists responsible for the Uranium extraction and development used to help end the war. She then attended the University of Redlands where she and her husband met. In her career she was Doctor of Fine Arts, Minister of Music, Miss America contestant from Colorado, community leader. But her greatest joy was as mother to three children, Mark, Kirk, Becky; Grandmother to seven; and Great Grandmother to two; and her loving appreciation of caregiver and daughter-in-law Pamela. One of her lifelong friends wrote, "Dee was grounded, gracious, genuine, loyal and SO beautiful." Private family services will be held at the Beatitudes Campus. This will be followed by a formal celebration on the morning of January 17, 2010, in worship at the church she helped found and served for most of her adult life, Church of the Beatitudes. The focus of this service will be the choir with orchestra performing one of her favorite pieces of music, Faure's Requiem Mass.
January 12, 2010 - Peggy Mullan Awarded 2009 Piper Fellowship - [ Full Release]
Beatitudes Campus in the News:
January 8, 2010 - Beatitudes Campus Featured in Chamber of Commerce Impact Magazine
The Beatitudes Campus started the new year off right with a feature in the January issue of the Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce’s Impact Magazine! The Business Bio, on page 27, was a great highlight of our community and also included a beautiful photo of a resident and staff member.
View the full article here (Scroll down to bottom article to view)
We are excited about being featured and feel proud of the positive impact the Beatitudes Campus has for our residents, family members and the broader community!
December 7, 2009 - Peggy Mullan Featured in Phoenix Business Journal
Our President and CEO, Peggy Mullan, was featured in the Phoenix Business Journal’s Executive Profile on December 4, 2009! The profile Q & A highlighted some interesting and fun things about Peggy including her background, hobbies, and of course, her business philosophy. See some of the profile at http://phoenix.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2009/12/07/story17.html.
Congratulations, Peggy, for an excellent opportunity to highlight you and all that you do for the Beatitudes Campus! [Article in PDF Format]
November 13, 2009 - The Last Dance for Sundance - Pet Therapy Dog Makes his Last Visit at Health Care Center
This week, residents and staff members joined together to say goodbye to Sundance, the 8-year-old beautiful and caring Labrador Retriever, who made regular visits to our community over the last three years or more.
Sundance is a Hospice of the Valley pet therapy dog who helped start the Pet Connections program back in 2006. But Sundance has been forced to retire due to severe arthritis, according to his owner and Hospice of the Valley Pet Program Director, Katie Howland O’Brien. Unfortunately, arthroscopic surgery that Sundance had earlier in the year couldn’t help him.
Even though we were sad to learn of his retirement, we were excited to have Sundance do his very last visit on the Vermilion Cliffs neighborhood of the Health Care Center, which serves those with moderate to severe dementia and Alzheimer's disease. When Sundance arrived on the fourth floor a few residents raised their hands and greeted him. Sundance looked around and went right up to resident, David Amaril, who gave him a dog biscuit.
“I can tell there’s a special bond between animal and man when a therapy dog like Sundance visits our residents on the Vermilion Cliffs – I am always amazed to see this special “connection!” We will all miss that special connection Sundance had with our residents” says Kathleen Deyo, Activity Director for Vermilion Cliffs, the 4th floor neighborhood.
The event did garner some media attention and the Arizona Republic was on hand to capture the special moment. (See photo and click below for full story and video.) We are grateful to Sundance, Katie, and the Hospice of the Valley team for your dedicated service to our community. The residents and staff of the Beatitudes Campus will miss you Sundance! [Additional Photos]
November 9, 2009 - PCAD Article Published in Journal of Gerontological Nursing
The Beatitudes Campus is a center of excellence in the field of aging services. Specifically, we have developed best practices in dementia care and we are committed to sharing our knowledge on a local, national, and international level.
Through generous funding from the BHHS Legacy Foundation, our Dementia and Aging Research Department has collaborated with Hospice of the Valley and created the Palliative Care for Advanced Dementia: A Model Teaching Unit (PCAD) program. In late October 2009, an article entitled, Palliative Care for Advanced Dementia: Approaches that Work, was published in the Journal of Gerontological Nursing (Vol. 35, No.11, 2009). Go to www.jognonline.com/view.asp?rID=44661 to read the article abstract.
We congratulate Dr. Carol O. Long, PhD, RN, FPCN, who is the author of the article and PCAD Co-Director. We also want to acknowledge PCAD Co-Director, Tena Alonzo, MA; the caregiving team of the Health Care Center’s Vermilion Cliffs Neighborhood; and Hospice of the Valley, Phoenix, for their stellar work on the palliative care program.
Jun. 13, 2009 07:30 AM - Garden grows more than vegetables at Beatitudes by Maria Polletta - The Arizona Republic
Campus Facts:
- For more than 40 years, the Beatitudes Campus has served as an all-inclusive Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC).
- Approximately 650 residents, diverse in backgrounds and beliefs, call the Campus home and hundreds more are served through rehabilitation services and wellness programs.
- The Campus is sponsored by the Church of the Beatitudes, a United Church of Christ congregation. Other related not-for-profits are Beatitudes Agelink, an intergenerational child development center; and Duet: Partners In Health & Aging, serving homebound adults, family caregivers, nurses in faith communities, and grandparents raising grandchildren.
- We are a non-for-profit organization with revenue dollars of approximately $18 million.
Services and Amenities:
- We are an active senior living community offering, a full continuum of care, with many different residential living options including:
- Independent Living, residential living with services and amenities included or available
- Assisted Living, residential living with supportive services for daily activities of living included
- Skilled Nursing, short and long-term nursing care, rehabilitation, and respite services
- Dementia Support, Alzheimer’s Disease, dementia care, and palliative care and services
- The Campus offers a holistic approach to health and promotes the Seven Dimensions of Wellness focusing on the emotional, social, intellectual, spiritual, vocational, financial, and physical elements of well-being.
- The Beatitudes Campus Health Care Center received another “Excellent” Quality Rating on the recent survey by the Arizona Department of Health Services (DHS) and a “Four-Star” Rating from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
- We recently completed the first phase of our expansion plan, creating a new 18,000-square-foot Town Plaza and the new Central Park apartments and Patio Homes totaling 199 new residences.
Beatitudes Campus Foundation:
- The Beatitudes Campus Foundation serves as the philanthropic partner to the Beatitudes Campus and has created several funds: Resident Assistance Fund, The Stetson Family Fund, and Restricted Gifts Fund.
- Areas of our community accept Arizona Long Term Care Systems (ALTCS) benefits for care (Arizona’s version of Medicaid). We also provide approximately $225,000 in charity care to help support residents who have outlived their resources and provide dollars to our community to cover the cost of care.
- The Foundation receives financial support from generous individual donors, corporations, foundations, and charitable trusts including:
- Foundations – Beatitudes Campus Auxiliary, BHHS Legacy Foundation, Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust, Stardust Foundation, and Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust
- Corporations – APS, Morrison Senior Dining, Shamrock Foods, SRP, Orcutt/Winslow, Weitz Company
- We are supported by a network of many volunteers including the Beatitudes Auxiliary with about 300 members and approximately 115 Campus Program volunteers.
Access our most recent Annual Report by clicking here.
Media Contacts:
Christie Munson, Communications/Grants Manager
602-995-6139, cmunson@beatitudescampus.org
Michelle Just, Director of Fund Development
602-995-6120, mjust@beatitudescampus.org
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