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1^st In New Jersey - Green Hill  The Green House® Homes

A revolutionary skilled model of nursing assisted living care for seniors.

Celebrates with ‘Gifts for Seniors’ holiday program and groundbreaking event, 12/14/09, 10AM

Toni Lynn Davis grew up exploring the hallways of Green Hill Senior Living Center in West Orange. Her mother was the Executive Director for 46 years. Now, Toni is Executive Director and President, leading the 143 year old facility on the cutting edge of specialized senior care.

Today, (Monday December 14^th,) under sunny skies, Green Hill, Incorporated, set a new standard for senior care, and skilled nursing in New Jersey with the ground breaking of The Green House® Homes. The first of its kind in New Jersey, The Green House Homes are a revolutionary, non-institutional skilled nursing model for seniors. To celebrate Green Hill seniors organized the donation of over 55 wrapped gifts, launching their ‘Gifts for Seniors’ program, for low-income senior citizens in West Orange, New Jersey.

Governor Brendan T. Byrne joined Congressman Bill Pascrell, Assemblyman John F. McKeon, Assemblywoman Mila Jasey, Council President Susan McCartney, and Green House founder Dr. Bill Thomas, broke ground for the first Green House homes in the State of New Jersey at Green Hill, 103 Pleasant Valley Way, West Orange.

“I'm excited to join with Green Hill, Inc as they begin work on this exciting new model of care.  The Green House homes will benefit the elders of West Orange and their families for decades to come.  It also marks the beginning of a new approach to services for older people that, I hope, will spread to all corners of the State of New Jersey”, Dr. Bill Thomas Professor, The Erickson School, UMBC. “The Green House model grows people during their senior years.”

Each Green House is a self-contained home for ten (10) residents who enjoy private bedrooms, and bathrooms centered by a living area with a hearth, an open kitchen and dining area. With the look and feel of a real home, The Green House model combines small homes with a full range of personal care and clinical services. The model’s operation and design is crafted to de-institutionalize skilled long-term care, and return dignity and a sense of well-being to residents, their families, and staff.

The six (6) state-of-the-art Green House Homes slated to be completed by December 2010 at Green Hill, Inc, meet all state and federal regulatory, and reimbursement criteria for licensure as skilled nursing facilities, and will replace the current fifty-seven (57) Medicaid/Medicare certified skilled nursing beds.

“For over 20 years my career focus has been to create a homelike environment for seniors in nursing care, built on the premise that senior care can, and should maintain ones dignity, nurture a sense of family and community, all while serving the unique medical needs of the aging”, said Toni Lynn Davis, Executive Director, President, Green Hill Inc. “With this revolutionary concept in senior nursing care we can create a skilled nursing unit in a home, bringing our most revered elders back home where they belong!”

Under a billowing tent in the rear of the property, the location of the new Green House homes, dignitaries donned red construction helmets and tossed the first shovels of dirt. To conclude, volunteers from the ‘Gifts for Seniors’ program presented the wrapped packages to Mayor McKeon, and Council President McCartney to be distributed through the West Orange Sunshine Fund.

For more information about The Green House Homes extraordinary new concept in senior care in New Jersey, contact Toni Lynn Davis, Executive Director/President Green Hill at Tlynn@green-hill.com or 973-3256008, or log on to http://www.green-hill.com or, contact Amy Simon, 973-518-3040, amy@asimonsays.com.

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Photos

From left Green Hill Chairman Dick Schrumpf, Mayor/Assemblyman John McKeon, Dr. Bill Thomas, Governor Brendan Byrne, Congressman Bill Pascrell, Green Hill Executive Director Toni Lynn Davis, Assemblywoman Mila Jasey, Council President Susan McCartney..

From left Assemblywoman Mila Jasey, Gifts for Seniors committee members Eleanor Stern, Margaret Bruckman, Mayor John McKeon, Green Hill Executive Director Toni Lynn Davis, Council President Susan McCartney. 

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