Tel Hai Retirement Community collected 425 pounds of canned goods and non-perishable food during March to support the Twin Valley Food Pantry in Morgantown.  Celebrating National Nutrition Month, Tel Hai collected food items contributed by residents, staff and greater community members over a four-week period.

Tel Hai is honored to help families in the Chester County community by joining forces with the Twin Valley Food Pantry, which supplies a food supplement to families in the Twin Valley School District who experience periodic food shortages due to lack of income.

One in six Americans find it difficult to physically and financially access foods and supplies that may nourish their body and keep them healthy.   Food insecurity is a reality for our neighbors in the community in which we live and work.  Hunger is not a short term problem; lack of nutrition can create long term problems from diabetes to heart disease.

Tel Hai Retirement Community, an accredited nonprofit continuing care retirement community, has provided high quality and compassionate care since 1956.  The campus is located at 1200 Tel Hai Circle, Honey Brook, PA., three miles east of Route 10 off Beaver Dam Road. For more information or directions, please visit www.telhai.org.

 

Tel Hai Retirement Community invites the public to an educational lecture by Donna Albert— a well-known textile designer from Lancaster County— on Wednesday, April 29 at 1:00 PM in the chapel.    Admission to the event is free and open to the public.

Presenting ‘The Seeds of Inspiration: A Legacy,” Albert’s talk will highlight the inspiration behind her hand-appliquéd quilt ‘Who Can Doubt There is a God?’  The quilt depicts America’s flower gardens and is in the permanent collection of the American Museum of Folk Art in New York City.

Tel Hai Retirement Community, an accredited nonprofit continuing care retirement community, has provided high quality and compassionate care since 1956.  The campus is located at 1200 Tel Hai Circle, Honey Brook, PA., three miles east of Route 10 off Beaver Dam Road. For more information or directions, please visit www.telhai.org.

Tel Hai Retirement Community has partnered with Hearts & Hugs of Hope to collect adult pajamas during the month of May! Tel Hai invites the greater community, staff , residents and family members to donate pajamas from May 1 to May 31 in the designated containers throughout the community.

As a local nonprofit organization of nurses and nurse’s aides from Tel Hai, the group’s goal is to help adult cancer patients. The Hearts & Hugs of Hope group includes Jan Creitz, Ethel Brinson, Jenn Schlimme, Ashlee Glauner, Becky and Joe Conger, and Andy and Emily Etman.

The group requests new and clean women’s two-piece pajamas (preferred) and men’s pajama bottoms Hearts & Hugs of Hope distributes pajamas and their Cancer Comfort Bags to local cancer patients in need and to the Lancaster General Health Ann B. Barshinger Cancer Institute.

For more information and questions about Hearts & Hugs of Hope visit HeartsHugsHope Facebook Page or email: HeartsHugsHope@gmail.com.
Tel Hai Retirement Community, an accredited nonprofit continuing care retirement community, has provided high quality and compassionate care since 1956. The campus is located at 1200 Tel Hai Circle, Honey Brook, PA., three miles east of Route 10 off Beaver Dam Road. For more information or directions, please visit www.telhai.org.

Tel Hai Retirement Community invites the public to a life enrichment lecture entitled “Fragile Freedoms” featuring The Hopewell Furnace National Historic Sites’ Christine Emmert on Friday, May 1 at 7:00 PM in the community’s chapel located off Beaver Dam Road in Honey Brook Township.  Admission to the event is free and open to the public.

Emmert, a local playwright/director and actress with a keen interest in women’s issues, will take attendees on a journey from 1776 to today with the company of Sojourner Truth, Mark Twain, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others.

Emmert holds a Masters in Humanities. Her belief in the arts as the transformer of lives goes deep. The piece she adapted with Katherine Mallon-Day, “The Yellow Wallpaper” was performed to enthusiastic audiences at the Philadelphia Fringe in 2014. Her novel, “The Nun’s Dragon” is presently out on Amazon Kindle.

Tel Hai Retirement Community, an accredited nonprofit continuing care retirement community, has provided high quality and compassionate care since 1956.  The campus is located at 1200 Tel Hai Circle, Honey Brook, PA., three miles east of Route 10 off Beaver Dam Road. For more information or directions, please visit www.telhai.org.

Tel Hai Retirement Community invites community youth— between the ages of 12 and 16— who are looking for meaningful summer volunteer opportunities to consider the Tel Hai.  Applications for the 2015 Summer Youth Volunteer program, which spans from June 22 through August 14, are now available by contacting Amy Whary, Director of Volunteer Services, at 610-273-9333, extension 2010 to receive an application.
All students are asked to complete the application and submit two written references for review on or before May 1.  A personal interview will then be scheduled during the weeks of May 11 through May 22. Final selection for acceptance in the program will be based on the maturity, skills and experience of each applicant.

Volunteer service at Tel Hai provides an excellent learning experience for youth interested in a health care career. Summer volunteer work also offers opportunities for those desiring to perform valuable community service. Work assignments for program participants are offered throughout the campus including the health care center, activities and therapy  departments, business office, grounds, , gift shop, café, chapel and central supply.

Tel Hai Retirement Community, an accredited nonprofit continuing care retirement community, has provided high quality and compassionate care since 1956.  The campus is located at 1200 Tel Hai Circle, Honey Brook, PA., three miles east of Route 10 off Beaver Dam Road. For more information or directions, please visit www.telhai.org.

Tel Hai Retirement Community invites the public to a spectacular evening of music by The Prana Winds Quintet on Friday, April 17 at 7:30 PM in the community’s chapel located off Beaver Dam Road in Honey Brook Township.  Admission to the event is free and open to the public.

The Prana Winds ensemble has a wide ranging musical repertoire. This woodwind quintet presents many “colors” of sound through the blending of the performers’ instruments including flute, oboe, clarinet, French horn and bassoon.  Musicians included Rebecca Simon on the flute, Lauren Fairfull on the oboe, Amy Christmas Halteman on the clarinet, Anne Nye on the French horn, and Gail Ober on the bassoon.                                                                                       

Tel Hai Retirement Community, an accredited nonprofit continuing care retirement community, has provided high quality and compassionate care since 1956.  The campus is located at 1200 Tel Hai Circle, Honey Brook, PA., three miles east of Route 10 off Beaver Dam Road. For more information or

Tel Hai Retirement Community invites the public to a life enrichment program entitled “Theology & Science- Sibling Rivals or Mortal Enemies” featuring Reverend Herb Davis on Wednesday, April 15 at 7:00 PM in the community’s chapel located at 1200 Tel Hai Circle, Honey Brook, Pa.  Admission to the event is free and open to the public.

Rev. Davis— a graduate of West Chester University and the Lancaster Theological Seminary— was ordained by the United Church of Christ in 1960. His education then continued when he earned a master’s degree in sacred theology at the Lutheran Theological School in Gettysburg, Pa., and received his doctor of ministry from the Andover Newton Theological School in Newton Centre, Mass.

Rev. Davis has served in congregations in Pennsylvania, Illinois, Connecticut and Massachusetts and has lectured in preaching at the Andover Newton Theological School. Labeling himself as a preacher and not a scholar, he was active in the civil rights movement and urban ministry.  Rev. Davis currently resides at Tel Hai with his wife Lillian.

Tel Hai Retirement Community, an accredited nonprofit continuing care retirement community, has provided high quality and compassionate care since 1956.  The campus is located at 1200 Tel Hai Circle, Honey Brook, PA., three miles east of Route 10 off Beaver Dam Road. For more information or directions, please visit www.telhai.org.

Janice Williams, Nursing Home Administrator for Tel Hai Retirement Community, was recently awarded the ‘Non-Profit/Public Service Achievement Award’ from the YWCA Tri-County Area as part of their ‘2015 Tribute to Exceptional Woman’ banquet.

Presented by YWCA board members Justine Pascal and Diane Lauer, the award honors Williams’ commitment to affect change through leadership during her tenure with Tel Hai Retirement Community.  Williams joined Tel Hai in 2001, and has served in various leadership positions including assistant administrator in the Meadows Health Care Center, prior to her promotion as administrator in 2010.

“Janice empowers young women working in various aspects of healthcare to work hard, pursue their career goals, and be the best they can be,” commented Christine Fritzen, Director of Rehabilitation Services at Tel Hai, in her nomination of Williams.

“It was an honor to be the recipient of this award and to assist women in pursuing and attaining their employment goals,” commented Williams.

The YWCA Tri-County’s mission is to eliminate racism, empower women and promote peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.

Tel Hai Retirement Community, an accredited nonprofit continuing care retirement community, has provided high quality and compassionate care since 1956.  The campus is located at 1200 Tel Hai Circle, Honey Brook, PA., three miles east of Route 10 off Beaver Dam Road. For more information or directions, please visit www.telhai.org.