Green House Newsletter 

November 2012

In This Issue
Every Home Has A Story
Tuscaloosa VA Medical Center Celebrates The Opening of Their First Green House Home
Grow Where You Are Planted
Bringing Game-Changing Ideas To Scale
Highlighting THE GREEN HOUSE® Project Team: Maura Porcelli, Operations Manager
Leading Age Honors Green House Organizations and Stimulates Thought Leadership
The Green House Residences at Stadium Place-A Nostaligic Spot for Long-time Baltimore Residents

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At a recent conference attended by our Green House Guide, Rhonda Wolpert, she heard Dr. Bill Thomas explain how important it is that a home has a story.  At our Home Blessing, Laura Voth and Doug Luginbill shared the initial stories of the first two Green House homes in Ohio.  House A, or 101 Willow Ridge Drivehas become Betty House and is named after Betty and Dallas Bash. Betty lived at Mennonite Memorial Home for 25 years.... 

 

 

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It was a clear sky with not one cloud to cause a shadow on what was about to commence:  the ribbon cutting on the first of 12 Green House homes to care for the veterans who so selflessly gave their lives to fight for the American way of life Freedom....  

 

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Grow Where You Are Planted 

 

 

 

On a mid-summer afternoon Veteran Thomas M. Booher (Korean War) sat looking out the front window of Liberty House (one of VA Illiana Health Care System's Green House homes) at the front yard.  As the Guide I visit the Green House homes with regularity and on this day I pulled up a chair and asked him what he thought about the landscaping... 

 

 

 

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Bringing Game-Changing Ideas To Scale 

 

 

In this case study for The Green House Project, Jane Isaacs Lowe, Vulnerable Populations team director at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), shares the strategy around bringing an innovation to scale.  She believes that "when it comes to nurturing social innovation and bringing effective solutions to where they are needed most, this is the dawn of a new era."...

 

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Highlighting THE GREEN HOUSE� Project Team: Maura Porcelli, Operations Manager 

 

  

 

Working in the world of nonprofits and giving back to her community are just part of Maura's lifestyle.  As she says, "I've just always been drawn to nonprofits."  So it's no surprise that her Master's Degree is in Nonprofit Association Administration!  Her many years of community service includes activities with her church such as feeding the needy, and providing shopping services for the elderly...

  

 

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Leading Age Honors Green House Organizations and Stimulates Thought Leadership 

 

 

The 2012 LeadingAge Annual Meeting in Denver, CO was an incredible opportunity to connect with thousands of aging services professionals and explore the current and future needs of our field. Through engaging education sessions and a robust exhibit hall, innovative ideas sparked and crackled throughout the convention center... 

 

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The Green House Residences at Stadium Place-A Nostaligic Spot for Long-time Baltimore Residents 

 

 

 

 

As the World Series is getting underway you may not be aware that the new Green House homes in Baltimore have a special connection to both baseball and football...

 

 

 

 

 

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THE GREEN HOUSE Newsletter
Published monthly to share information with providers, elders and others about THE GREEN HOUSE Project, a new and innovative approach to long-term, skilled nursing care. To learn more, visit www.thegreenhouseproject.org.
  

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