Spring 2022 Good Tidings Newsletter
We are looking to 2022 as a year to renew, rebuild and rejuvenate as the Reformed Presbyterian Woman’s Association celebrates 125 years of service.
The Reformed Presbyterian Home opened its door in 1897 on the North Side of Pittsburgh (then known as Allegheny City) and has been operating on the corner of Perrysville Ave and Burgess Street since 1907. Today, we provide mixed income e housing, personal care services and nursing services to the local community and to members of the Reformed Presbyterian Church.
Things have changed since the days when people would take a carriage to the RP Home, when male residents would care for the cow and chickens, or when friends brought their produce for meals. Regardless of the changes in healthcare, funding, and technology, we continue to serve our mission and maintain a commitment to providing benevolent and uncompensated care. In 2021, RP Home provided $2.2 million in benevolent and uncompensated care. We rely on the generosity of others to help make this possible. More than 60% of our resident population depends on Medicaid funding, and the Pennsylvania Medicaid system vastly underfunds facilities such as ours to provide these services.
After spending the last two years maintaining COVID precautions, we believe 2022 is a great time to renew RP Home’s connection with the community. We look forward to providing various communication educational events on topics such as hospice services, insurance, and advanced directives. In addition, we are planning a Founder’s Day Celebration in June and other community events throughout the year.
The COVID-19 pandemic did not delay facility improvements. We continued to improve our home in 2021 by repainting resident rooms, installing new privacy curtains and resident blinds, and updating our heating and cooling system. RP Home is in the process of planning to rebuild our Resident Chapel and Community Space in 2022.
We are thankful for the financial generosity and time of our donors, mission partners and volunteers, whose contributions made it possible for us to continue to rejuvenate our physical, mental, social and spiritual programs. Thanks to the generosity of our supporters we have been able to expand our technology to monitor physical and medical conditions as well as to advance our therapy treatment programs. In addition, the Reformed Presbyterian Home received funding in 2021 to support the expansion of our spiritual program and end of life program.
The Reformed Presbyterian Home remains committed to providing a supportive living environment to those who call us “home.”
Sincerely,
Cara D. Todhunter
Executive Director