Message from the Administrator

Dear Friends:

 

It has always been the mission of the Home to help our residents live life to the fullest.  This often means advocating on their behalf and creating avenues to feel that this is truly their Home and not an "institution."  Sharing a similar mission, the District of Columbia has an appointed Ombudsman who serves as an advocate for residents living in all of the long-term care facilities in DC.  The Home has often worked with the Ombudsman to assure quality services and to maximize each resident's care.  Recently, the Ombudsman's office was approached by a representative of the Federal Administration for Community Living (ACL) which focuses on meeting the unique needs of older adults, including sharing U.S. resources with its international counterparts.  The Ombudsman turned to the LLDH Home as her first choice when advised that a delegation from Singapore wanted to visit a local facility to learn more about how we provide medical, social, and other functional services to aging residents of the community.

 

It was a great honor to be selected and, on November 1st, the delegation, led by the Singapore Minister for Health, toured the Home and engaged with us in a thoughtful, open discussion about our mission of service to the city's elder low income residents. We further learned about delivery of services to the elders of Singapore.

It was truly a professional and personal honor to see the Home singled out among all of the long term care facilities in DC to share our story and to show, first-hand, the quality of compassionate care that makes us so special.

 

Subsequent to the visit, I received an email "thank you" from the representative of the ACL in which she described the Home as a "...wonderful jewel...in NW DC serving our most vulnerable."  The delegation expressed its gratitude for our opening the Home's doors to them for such a worthwhile visit. They also presented us with a lovely landscape of Singapore crafted out of wood. It was so wonderful to be able to assist others in a far off place in considering how to best serve the needs of their elder population.  I cannot tell you how proud I am, once again, of the work we do at the Home.

 

All the best,

Sue