In a recent Blog post, Dr. Allen Power, MD, tells the following story. (Dr. Power is an Eden Mentor at St. John's Home in Rochester, N.Y., and Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Rochester.)

One consequence of opening a new living space like our Green Houses is that it lays bare some aspects of institutional care that never occurred to me before. This seems to happen with regularity these days. Here's a story.

A woman stopped by recently to visit her mother. The Shahbaz came to the door and said, "She's not home right now." With a big smile and somewhat teary eyes, her daughter asked where she was, and it was explained that she had gone with a staff member to Wegman's (grocery store) to get supplies for dinner.

Her daughter was moved to tears at the thought that her mother would be out shopping for dinner. Another nursing home paradigm busted.

We can't wait to begin telling our own stories of how Willow Ridge has become home for our elders.

Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio recently released the current issue of "The Visioneer." It is a project update for MHCO's New Vision campaign partners and provides current information the Green House Project underway on Augsbuger Road.

Open the attachment at the bottom of this story to read the publication.