Westminster Canterbury Foundation

Westminster Canterbury Foundation is committed to compassion and excellence for all residents of Westminster Canterbury richmond regardless of health, cognitive or financial status. The Foundation nurtures the spirit of generosity to ensure the best life possible for our senior residents, provides support for our workforce and cultivates leadership and innovation in senior services. Our fellowship program provides life care guaranteed access to long-term independent, assisted or healthcare as well as housing, meals, medical care, and all the vital living of Westminster Canterbury richmond for more than one hundred seniors-in-need who reside on our campus. Our fellowship outreach program provides collaborative services and support to seniors-in-need in the greater community. Westminster Canterbury Foundation also provides funding for memory support therapies, pastoral care internships and programming, wellness and fitness programs, cultural arts programs and healthcare excellence enrichment. Fellowship support - Westminster Canterbury Foundation nurtures generosity for the needs of Westminster Canterbury richmond in continued response to our joint faith-based mission of providing financial support for seniors-in-need through our fellowship program. Approximately 100 people receive this need-based benevolent care per year, through a combination of fundraising for the annual fellowship fund and dedicated endowments held by both Westminster Canterbury Foundation and the Westminster Canterbury corporation. Fellowship program support is offered to new residents with demonstrated financial need, assisting with entry fee support and to residents who have outlived their resources. Our fellowship program assures that no resident will ever be asked to leave due to an inability to pay through no fault of their own.

Advanced training - the Foundation provides funding for advanced training for clinical and non-clinical staff in order to improve service, provide healthcare for all who are served in our skilled nursing health center, and scholarships for staff who wish to advance their careers. The Foundation provides much of the funding for the organization's professional school of learning, which offers classroom and online training for the entire workforce of approximately 650 staff. The Foundation funds a full-time clinical educator in our mary morton parsons health center and a comprehensive multi-week preceptor program for every new hire in the health center. The Foundation has offered intense innovation training and a career lattice program to staff across all departments. Through these training programs, care is enhanced for every resident and staff members have the opportunity to continuously improve their skills

Program support - the Foundation provides funding for memory support therapies, pastoral care internships and programming, wellness and fitness programs, a wide range of studio arts classes, live performing arts experiences, funding for leadership and innovation in senior services, supplemental scholarships for employee children in our on-site child development center, programming support for the child development center, and healthcare improvements. Our mission is to nurture and inspire generosity so that seniors may live the best life possible and to cultivate leadership in senior services both on our campus and beyond.