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1951 - Columbus Jewish Home for the Aged opens
on North Woodland Avenue for three ambulatory older
adults.
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1961 - Heritage House opens at 1151 College
Avenue on land provided by the United Jewish Fund
and Council, with
facilities for 50 residents. Adult day care program begins.
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April 1975 - The 50-bed Resler Unit is dedicated in honor of
Eleanor and Jack Resler who donated funds
for this wing. Terrace Level was simultaneously constructed, but not furnished.
Day Resident Program expands; Geriatric Service
Organization
is formed to provide outreach care.
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1976 - Eleanor and Jack Resler donate funds to complete
a 50-bed nursing unit on the Terrace Level.
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January
1977 - Harry A. Polster Dental Clinic dedicated.
Pearl Polster funds the clinic and establishes
a perpetual fund to finance its operation. The clinic is equipped
by Alpha Omega Dental Fraternity.
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October 1977 - Terrace Level
dedicated, bringing Heritage House capacity to
150 beds.
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1979 - Heritage Tower and the Rae and Jerome
Solove Health Assessment Clinic open to provide
services to 100 residents.
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September 1980 - Martha G. Staub Special Care Pavilion
dedicated.
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May 1981 - Barrier-free
gardens, designed by students from The Ohio State
University Landscape Architecture Department are dedicated.
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1982 - Heritage Village purchases and remodels an
adjacent home on College Avenue
creating the Herbert A. and Lillian R. Kanter Heritage Manor providing assisted
living for
nine residents.
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June
1988 - 50-bed Skilken Unit is dedicated and Resler
and Terrace Units
renovated.
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1989 - Heritage Village expands religious programming
with addition of full-time
rabbi.
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1989-90 - Original building demolished and new addition
constructed.
Addition includes new synagogue, Ebner-Ruben and Morgan Nursing Units, beauty
shops, gift shop
and therapy areas. Heritage Day Health
Center moves to Heritage House location, with room for 60 clients daily.
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June
1990 - The 250-bed Wexner Heritage House is dedicated
and Heritage
Village becomes Wexner Heritage Village. Association with OSU Medical School
begins with the signing of a model
teaching
nursing home agreement.
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June 1990 - Wexner Heritage Village assumes management
of
the Victor Weinstein Shalom House from Jewish Family
Services.
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1991 - Heritage Day Health Centers incorporates
separately from
Wexner Heritage Village.
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June 1992 - Shalom House South at College Avenue
and Haddon
Road is dedicated.
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1993-94 - Geriatric Service Organization is incorporated
as a separate organization.
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June 1994 - Dedication
of Bexley Heritage Apartments on
Sheridan Avenue between Main and Livingston avenues for 40 older adults.
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July
1995 - Wexner Heritage House downsizes from 250
licensed
beds to 200.
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July 1999 - Shalom House opens its first MR/DD supported
living site for three adults sharing a private home
in Gahanna, Ohio.
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July 2000 - Heritage at Home begins
offering home maintenance
and repair to the Columbus community.
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Fall 2000 - The Tikvah Program puts
the most cutting-edge
innovations in dementia care into practice at Wexner Heritage Village. Wexner
Heritage House takes on a more social environment
changing the Units to “Neighborhoods” and
incoporating other resident-focused plans.
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October
2000 – Grand reopening of the Harry
and Pearl Polster Dental Clinic in an expanded
space, equipped
with state-of-the-art tools and staffed by The
Ohio State
University College of Dentistry.
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February 2001 – Rededication
on the Victor
Weinstein Shalom House.
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April 2001 – VanTran program begins offering
a transportation
option for older adults of Columbus’ east side
allowing an easy way to access shopping and medical appointments.
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July
2002 – Jewish Community Hospice becomes
a licensed provider of end-of-life care.
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September 2003 - Heritage
at Home offers Connections, a
referral and activity program for older adults living
in private apartment communities.
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November 2004 – Jewish
Community Hospice receives
a naming gift becoming the Larry and Leonore Zusman Jewish Community Hospice.
Support allows for plans
to build an inpatient hospice unit to be named Zusman
House.
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January 2005 – The Morgan Neighborhood
of Wexner
Heritage House becomes a Transitional Care Unit serving older adults needing
rehabilitation and a short-term
stay due to a surgery or nuerological condition.
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Autumn
2005 – Creekside at the Village opens
offering 82 well-appointed independent apartments
for older adults.
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Autumn 2005 – Zusman House
opens providing
private patient rooms, a patio, a chapel and offices for Larry
and Leonore Zusman Jewish Community Hospice.
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Autumn
2005 – Village Shalom Apartments, a
HUD-subsidized project, opens adjacent to Bexley Heritage Apartments
to provide ten private apartments for adults with mental retardation/developmental
disabilities who live independently with the help
of Shalom House Supportive Living Services.
