July 10, 2020
Friendship Village Senior Services’ Update and Response to COVID-19 as of Friday, July 10, 2020 Dear Friends, Residents and Families of Friendship Village: It’s the end of a warm week and everyone is ready for the weekend at Friendship Villages on this Friday, July 10th, 2020. We have read the news stories about the upsurge in COVID-19 cases all around the country and the area around us is no exception. On our Chesterfield campus, there have been no positive cases in the skilled nursing facility for a few weeks now […]
July 2, 2020
IMPORTANT MESSAGE: Friendship Village Senior Services’ Update and Response to COVID-19 as of Thursday, July 2, 2020 Dear Friends, Residents and Families of Friendship Village: Summer is here at Friendship Villages on this Thursday, July 2nd, 2020, as all of us prepare to celebrate the 4th of July and the birth of our great nation. Our Residents at all levels of care have enjoyed a couple of weeks reprieve from COVID-19 cases. Along with the State and County, some of our voluntary restrictions have been relaxed. Residents have been permitted […]
June 26, 2020
Friendship Village Senior Services’ Update and Response to COVID-19 as of Friday, June 26, 2020 Dear Friends, Residents and Families of Friendship Village: We are enjoying a beautiful, but very warm, day at Friendship Villages on this Friday, June 26th, 2020. To get to the main point first, God has blessed us that there are no COVID-19 positive residents at any level of care on either Village. Independent Living Residents remain free of COVID-19. Assisted Living Residents remain free of COVID-19. Skilled Nursing Residents remain free of COVID-19. Our teams […]
June 22, 2020
Policy for Visitors as of Monday, June 22nd, 2020 We are very happy and excited to open our buildings to our visitors in Sunset Hills and Chesterfield once again! Effective Monday, June 22, 2020, beginning at 12:00 noon, we will begin to allow visitors in the buildings and in residents’ apartments. We must still keep in mind the threat of COVID-19. It has not diminished. For us to be safe and be able to allow visitors we ask that all visitors comply with the following: Maintain social distancing while waiting […]
June 22, 2020
Here’s an interesting story posted this month in the St. Louis Business Journal discussing the challenges facing senior living communities locally and nationwide. The publication spoke with Friendship Village as well as other local communities. Our own Chief Strategy Officer and Chesterfield Interim Executive Director Carmen Fronczak was interviewed for the story and talked about how Friendship Village’s two campuses have fared during the pandemic as some have put off their plans to move. Despite the recent challenges since March and April, Fronczak noted Friendship Village has filled 80 new […]
June 16, 2020
Friendship Village Senior Services’ Update and Response to COVID-19 as of Tuesday, June 16th, 2020 Dear Friends, Residents and Families of Friendship Village: We are enjoying a beautiful day at Friendship Villages on this Tuesday, June 16th, 2020. While Friendship Villages enjoyed an entire week having no COVID-19 Residents on our campuses, this status has changed somewhat since then. On the Sunset Hills campus, a new rehabilitation patient was admitted from a local hospital who had previously tested negative twice before leaving the hospital. Upon admission, our staff detected a […]
