Morningside Ministries

Nursing services: provides complete range of health services to residents in nursing beds and in assisted living residences. Residents receive skilled and intermediate nursing care, meals, dietitian's services, and a wide range of recreational activities. It also includes a full range of rehabilitation services, including physical, occupational and speech therapy. Specialized nursing and therapeutic services are available for residents living with alzheimer's disease or other dementia-related diseases. During 2022, about 1,800 residents were provided full-time nursing care, including rehabilitation services, memory care and home health. These services include residents whose payor sources are private pay, medicare, and medicaid. Also, these services include providing financial assistance to residents who may not otherwise be able to obtain services offered by the organization. Financial assistance is provided through the covenant assistance program. Covenant financial assistance is based on "need and is provided to residents who meet the need criteria established by management. The organization provided covenant financial assistance in the amount of $602,000 during 2022. The cost of charity care provided was approximately $2,334,000 in 2022.

Dietary services - provides daily meals for approximately 1,200 residents, dietary services include selective menus (giving residents a choice of menus) and accommodate the needs of all diet types from puree, ground, salt, calorie regulated, and any other special nutrition needs of the residents on a 24 hour basis.

Environmental services - includes housekeeping and laundry services for approximately 1,200 residents on a daily basis. Also includes the maintenance of the grounds, buildings, plant and equipment connected with approximately 600,000 sq. Ft. of buildings located on three separate campuses. Also includes providing meeting places for various local elderly and health service group's educational activities.

Ancillary services - includes internal feeding, iv's, labs, respiratory, tpn, occupational, speech, physcial and other therapy services to the residents and community. Also includes providing meeting places for various local elderly and health sercvice group's educational activities.

Life enrichment - services performed by social workers, chaplains and social activities staff. This area also includes services such as the barber and beauty shops which are provided at a nominal charge for the residents. Social workers, together with health services and social services staffs, evaluate the needs of the residents and then plan and design programs to enhance the daily lives of approximately 1,600 residents as well as the elderly community at large. The programs are enhanced by approximately 10,000 hours contributed by volunteers from the communityservices performed by social workers, chaplains and social activities staff. This area also includes services such as the barber and beauty shops which are provided at a nominal charge for the residents. Social workers, together with health services and social services staffs, evaluate the needs of the residents and then plan and design programs to enhance the daily lives of approximately 1,200 residents as well as the elderly community at large. The programs are enhanced by approximately 10,000 hours contributed by volunteers from the community.