Senior living administrator shared how community is working to keep residents healthy during Covid-19 Friendship Village’s Assisted Living Administrator, Nicole Summers, recently attended a virtual National Roundtable for senior living communities where she served as a panelist to talk about how Friendship Village is helping keep its residents healthy during COVID-19 and how other communities can do the same. The group of experts came together to discuss their solutions to current problems within their field of work. This format allowed other interested parties to listen in to gain insight and […]

Friendship Village Senior Services’ Update and Response to COVID-19 as of Friday, April 24, 2020 Dear Friends, Residents and Families of Friendship Village: It’s a beautiful Spring day at Friendship Villages on this Friday, April, 24, 2020. Over the past several weeks, you have read that we have implemented many programs related to COVID-19 in our continuing efforts to keep it off of our campuses and to respond aggressively and effectively, if or when it does appear. There have been many moving parts and Residents and staff both affected and […]

Over 600 masks have been sewn to date for healthcare workers and residents Due to the COVID-19 stay-at-home order, Friendship Village’s residents are hard at work sewing masks to not only keep themselves and staff members safe, but also the rest of the St. Louis community. Due to the importance of not spreading germs, wearing masks of any type are required while practicing social distancing in public. Although the senior living community is currently following shelter-in-place orders to prevent the spread of the virus, Friendship Village still wanted to give […]

Friendship Village Senior Services’ Update and Response to COVID-19 as of Thursday, April 23, 2020 Dear Friends, Residents and Families of Friendship Village: We’ve all heard that “April showers bring May flowers.” That’s what we’re going for at Friendship Villages today, this wet Thursday, April 23, 2020. There is very little to update from yesterday’s letter except to report that our COVID-19 Residents continue to make progress in their recovery as they look forward to graduating from our COVID Care Center and getting back to their normal accommodations. As of […]

Friendship Village Senior Services’ Update and Response to COVID-19 as of Wednesday, April 22, 2020 Dear Friends, Residents and Families of Friendship Village: It is another great day at Friendship Village on this, Wednesday, April 22, 2020. Residents at all our levels of care, Independent Living, Assisted Living and in our skilled nursing facilities are doing well. Even better, most of the generally small number of Residents from our Chesterfield skilled nursing facility’s COVID Care Center, who had previously tested positive, appear to be on the road to recovery! A […]