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Beatitudes Campus Puts Quality First
Community Outreach Program Receives Best Practice Award
PHOENIX – The Beatitudes Campus, a continuing care retirement community in north central Phoenix, was honored for its commitment to helping youth in the broader community and recently received the 2009 Quality First, Best Practice Award from Aging Services of Arizona.
In early June, Beatitudes Campus Foundation staff members received the Best Practice Award for its Student of the Month program that is a collaborative effort with Washington High School (WHS), also located in north central Phoenix. The Quality First, Best Practice Award recognizes a member organization that has developed an innovative approach or a creative solution to improving the quality of service in long-term care and senior housing communities.
“For the past six years, the Campus has sponsored this Student of the Month program as a way to connect and give back to the community, which is one example of social accountability,” says Scott Wynn, Campus Sr. Vice President of Business Development. Social accountability is not only a priority for the Beatitudes Campus but is also a part of the Quality First philosophy that we work within to provide a level of quality and a framework for earning public trust.”
Through Quality First, the Campus works in partnership with all stakeholders – government, consumers, community members, and the residents it serves and their families – to create quality of care and quality of life in aging services. This includes local businesses and schools like WHS, which shares the same neighborhood as the Campus.
The Beatitudes Campus has sponsored the Student of the Month program as one of its outreach projects. Exemplary students, who have received a recommendation from a teacher or counselor, apply to be student of the month listing their academic and extra-curricular accomplishments. The many applications submitted by students are reviewed by a committee of Campus residents and staff members who select which individuals will be student of the month for each month for the upcoming school year. Also, the Campus provides a gift card to a book store for each student and hosts an awards luncheon at the end of the year to acknowledge the students and celebrate with their families and WHS faculty.
Campus Volunteer Specialist and Student of the Month program coordinator, Amanda Olsen stated, “The Beatitudes Campus and the WHS campus share not only the same neighborhood, but also a commitment to lifelong learning. The Student of the Month program is a great example of this commitment!” For more information about the Student of the Month program, contact Amanda at 602-995-6136.
About the Beatitudes Campus
For more than 40 years, the Beatitudes Campus has served as an all-inclusive continuing care retirement community (CCRC), including Independent Living, Assisted Living, Skilled Nursing, and Memory Care. Through our programs and services, our Campus offers a true community that recognizes and nourishes the spiritual, physical, social, and emotional needs of our residents.
The Campus is sponsored by the Church of the Beatitudes, a United Church of Christ congregation. The Church of the Beatitudes also founded the following related nonprofit organizations: Beatitudes Agelink, an inter-generational child development center, and Beatitudes Center DOAR, a Valley-wide, interfaith organization that assists homebound adults, caregivers, grandparents raising grandchildren and congregational health programs.
