Burnsville’s Ebenezer Ridges Campus receives Leading Change Innovation Award from Minnesota Aging Services

Ebenezer Ridges, a senior housing campus in
Burnsville, Minn., has received the distinguished Leading Change Innovation Award from Aging Services of
Minnesota.   Honored in the Programming
and Life Enrichment category, Ebenezer Ridges received the highly competitive
award for its excellence in developing new and innovative service programs that
benefit its residents and communities.  Aging Services of Minnesota is the state’s largest association of organizations
serving Minnesota seniors, and helps to promote the future of older adult
services through excellence and innovation. 

Ebenezer
Ridges Campus offers independent living, assisted living, skilled nursing care
for short and long term stays as well as adult day care.  With a focus on making senior living
situations more independent, healthful and meaningful, the community features Life Long Learning
-- the process of keeping one’s mind, body and spirit engaged at any age.

“We are thrilled to be recognized for our
innovative programs,” said Erin Hilligan, Ebenezer Ridges campus
administrator.  “By embracing the idea of
lifelong learning, we better serve each and every one of our residents as
individuals.  We honor all who enter our
doors and are dedicated to their life enrichment, providing them with the best
quality of life possible.”

Life
enrichment programs provide language, music and photography classes, and
Live2BeHealthy programs include dance, karate and yoga.  Instructors and experts from area
organizations, such as MacPhail Center for Music, Northern Clay project or
Kairos Intergenerational Dance Company, help to teach seniors the importance of
lifelong learning.  Therapeutic
recreation also allows residents to go camping, boating and fishing, examples
of Minnesota traditions that Ebenezer Ridges wants to remain in seniors’ lives.

Incorporating
intergenerational opportunities with children from Ebenezer Ridges’ child care
with its seniors brings the generations together daily to create memories and
to build relationships.  Other Ebenezer
Ridges’ outreach benefits for its residents include community programs led by
the Humane Society, Veterans Administration, Ronald McDonald House and Crisis
Nursery, to name a few.

Aging Services of Minnesota (www.agingservicesmn.org) includes over
1,000 organizations statewide with more than 50,000 caregivers.  Its members serve 63,000 older adults every day in all of the places they
call home, including home care and services, independent senior housing,
assisted living communities and skilled nursing facilities.

About Ebenezer Ridges

Since 1917, Ebenezer has provided
compassionate, community-centered care for older adults and others in need.
Partnering with Fairview Health Services in 1995, the combined resources and
expertise of Ebenezer and Fairview allow older adults throughout Minnesota to
access a full range of choices for vibrant senior living; coordinated programs
and services including senior housing, condominiums and cooperatives, assisted
living, transitional and long-term care, adult and intergenerational programs
and a variety of community-based services.