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Givens
Estates United Methodist Retirement Community is an ecumenical, not-for-profit
corporation committed to providing the full continuum of quality care
and services to seniors within its community and to provide outreach
ministries in the larger community.
Benevolence: Provide charitable care and services
to all residents requiring financial support within the financial
means of the organization.
Caring: Perform services in ways
that demonstrate respect and compassion for and commitment to residents
and the local communities being served.
Dedication: Create an environment in which all parties
are focused on and committed to accomplishing the organization’s
mission.
Integrity: Act, in all areas of conduct, at the highest
levels of ethical behavior, financial responsibility, fair dealing
and accountability.
Professionalism: Provide expert leadership through
highly qualified staff in the delivery of state-of-the-art services
to the elderly.
 Quality:
Deliver superior services that bring measurable and sustainable benefits
to residents and the local communities served.
Respect: Cultivate resident, board, staff, business
and local community relationships that honor and celebrate the dignity
of every human being.
Safety: Provide a safe and secure environment for
residents, employees, and visitors.
Wellness: Promote and implement wellness programs,
education and services as an organization-wide process for the benefit
of residents, staff, and the local community and encourage the adoption
of a wellness lifestyle.
(Revised Mission Statement Adopted by Board of Directors July 18,
2003.)
Givens Estates, its Board of Directors, and Staff are dedicated
to this ministry.
HEALTH
AND WELLNESS PHILOSOPHY |
The
goal of the Givens Estates Health and Wellness Philosophy is to
optimize the quality of life for residents and staff by encouraging
individuals to adopt a healthy and balanced lifestyle. Wellness
is on-going, taking personal responsibility, making healthy choices
and integrates mind, body and spirit. Givens Estates provides opportunities
for residents to find satisfaction, dignity and purpose in daily
living. The Givens Estates Wellness Philosophy
includes the following seven dimensions:
- Social
wellness: fosters meaningful interactions within a diverse
community.
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Physical wellness: promotes personal fitness
and health goals. Givens Estates promotes and encourages preventive
health care. The provision of health and wellness services is
central to the health maintenance of residents.
- Spiritual
wellness: encourages a life of meaning, value, and purpose.
- Emotional
wellness: facilitates an awareness and acceptance of
one’s feelings.
- Intellectual
wellness:
stimulates the use of one’s mind.
- Environmental
wellness:
exercises stewardship of our environment.
- Recreational
wellness: encourages self expression and personal development.
Emphasis is placed on each resident being provided continuing
opportunities for meaningful service.
The Givens Estates Health Services Philosophy focuses on each resident
being provided with the support structures for dealing with major
life changes. The provision of quality care in a Christian environment
utilizing responsible policies and practices is a priority. The key
principles include the following:
- Givens
Estates affirms the preservation of personal dignity, individuality,
and the blending of dependence with independence for all persons.
- Givens
Estates residents have the right to make individual choices and
decisions regarding the health services they receive.
- Transfers
between levels of care are made when necessitated by changes in
a resident’s health status or abilities, and only after
consultation among the resident, physician and the multi-disciplinary
care team.
- Givens
Estates provides a multi-disciplinary and holistic approach to
care so that residents are free from restraints, both chemical
and physical.
- Cognitively
impaired residents are treated with respect in the least restrictive
environment possible.
- Living
environments emphasize normal life routines; are residential in
appearance; and incorporate animals, children, and plants into
the living habitat.
- Givens
Estates recognizes the right of residents to execute advance directives
and to accept or reject medical treatment.
- Givens
Estates acts affirmatively to preserve the life of all residents.
However, for those residents who are terminally ill, the facility
provides palliative, supportive care according to the resident's
wishes and ministers to the spiritual, emotional, and physical
needs.
Our Health
and Wellness Philosophy recognizes residents as partners in decision
making. As partners, we treat each resident as we would wish to be
treated, with respect and sensitivity. We take appropriate measures
to ensure that residents are fully informed and are consulted whenever
possible before decisions are made or treatments initiated. Our goal
is excellence in every facet of care, so that every resident of Givens
Estates can enjoy the highest quality of life, with dignity and purpose,
in a Christian environment.
(Revised and Adopted by Board of Directors July 18, 2003.)
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