Local First Responders introduced to Life Emergency Access File for senior residents Community Homes of Lebanon County, a local leader in providing safe, affordable housing for senior citizens. The Resident Services staff assist elderly and disabled residents living in their affordable housing communities to identify, locate, and acquire the services necessary to remain self-sufficient. The…
Compassion at the heart of all we do. We take a close look at another of our Core Values this time – Compassion. The Miriam Webster dictionary gives us a nice concise definition – “Compassion is the sympathetic consciousness of other’s distress together with a desire to alleviate it.” At Community Homes we are focused…
It often begins with Hope. I love the word hope. It is one of our Core Values. According to the Miriam-Webster dictionary, “Hope, in general definition, means a desire for things to change for the better, and to want that better situation very much.” In the case of Community Homes and its pursuit of increasing…
In our last Charlie’s Corner blog, we elaborated on one of our Core Values – Truth. This time we turn our attention to another of our Core Values – Responsibility. It is a good and important value, and at Community Homes we live up to our responsibility in several important ways. When a new resident…
Core Value Truth If you are at all familiar with Community Homes, you know our organization is driven by its core values, the root beliefs and behaviors that we operate from, in all aspects of our existence. We are guided by our carefully conceived core values – Truth, Responsibility, Hope, Respect, Compassion, Fairness, and Safety.…
Wenger Foundation supports Community Homes Campaign The Wenger Foundation was founded in 1996 with a mission to support religious, educational, and community services programs through corporate contributions from Wengers of Myerstown, as well as individual contributions, and fund solicitations for special events, most notably the Annual Praise Dinner. The Community Homes Capital Campaign is the…
With a welcome assist from two CVS pharmacists, Sitora Muhamedora and Kianna Sebrell, over 50 residents of Tulpehocken Terrace, Myerstown, plus Community Homes staff members Charlie Rush (CEO), Tammy Miller (Executive Administrative Assistant), Jane Keller (Director of Resident Services), and Charlotte McNamara (Site Administrator), received Covid-19 vaccine shots on Sunday, January 31st. Despite bad weather…
Wenger Foundation plays Santa Clause for Community Homes residents In a normal year, residents in the seven Lebanon County buildings that consist of 287 affordable, safe independent living apartments for seniors and ambulatory disabled citizens would be gathering in community rooms to share in the celebration of the Holidays. They would exchange gifts and enjoy…
November 3rd was far from a typical day at the 100 Senior apartment building in Lebanon. The community room inside the building served as a polling place for the 2020 election, as it has for many years. And in the parking lot behind the building, CATE was parked. Many more people in the area, all…
