Nonprofit Senior Living and Healthcare Partnerships: Why It Matters

Better Together: How Nonprofits and Health Systems Improve Senior Care

Nonprofit senior living communities offer many important advantages, especially when they collaborate with healthcare organizations that are dedicated to delivering high-quality care to older adults. Learn what a difference this can make for you and your loved one.

What Is Nonprofit Senior Living?

A nonprofit senior living community is one that is not focused on making a profit, thus it is not concerned with maintaining a bottom line. Instead, nonprofit senior living is concerned with ensuring a high quality of life for residents, channeling its funds back into the community for ongoing enhancements and resources.

Quality of care is high, due to a shared commitment among staff and caregivers who understand and follow the overall mission of the group or organization behind the community.

In Terms of Healthcare, How Can a Nonprofit Affiliation Benefit Senior Living Residents?

Take The Herrick House, for example. The Herrick House is a nonprofit assisted living community in Beverly, Massachusetts, offering two important advantages:

• Our affiliation with Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH), a nonprofit integrated health system based in Massachusetts, with locations in New Hampshire. This system brings together 4,700 physicians and 39,000 employees in a shared mission to expand access to care and advance the science and practice of medicine.

BILH defines its purpose as: Creating healthier communities — one person at a time — through seamless care and groundbreaking science, driven by excellence and innovation. This dedication to providing exceptional care for everyone is advanced by The Herrick House through an exceptional level of care and attention to every resident.

Licensed nurses at The Herrick House can easily collaborate with other medical experts when needed and work together on individualized care plans. Residents not only receive attention when needed but also have the peace of mind that comes from knowing expert medical assistance and expertise for healthy aging is right there.

This adds a level of confidence for residents of The Herrick House and their families, knowing they are benefitting from the extensive resources of Beth Israel Lahey Health, not to mention the other important benefits of this exceptional lifestyle.

• Our convenient location on the upper campus of Beverly Hospital. With more than 130 years of experience, Beverly Hospital has a long history of delivering compassionate care. Tapping into the resources of the BILH system, Beverly Hospital delivers world-class healthcare services to 13 communities across Essex County.

The Beverly Hospital campus setting makes it even easier for caregivers at The Herrick House to quickly connect residents and families to a comprehensive range of healthcare services, including easy access to physician, outpatient and 24/7 hospital services. In fact, our beautiful, private wooded setting means residents are only a short walk from many of the area’s most respected medical specialists.

It All Comes Together in One Mission: Making You Feel Right at Home While Maintaining Your Highest Quality of Life

At The Herrick House, we are proud of our staff, our residents, and the warm and welcoming lifestyle that our nonprofit senior living community offers. We also are just the right size; not so big that you get lost, but large enough to make new friends. 

As a nonprofit, we are able to continuously update and enhance our services and amenities to help keep our residents on the leading edge of advanced care. Examples include our spa services, Eldergrow gardening program, dining services, wireless emergency response system, Voice-Friend system for resident-family communication and more.

The Herrick House continues to seek new programs and features that will elevate the senior living experience for our residents.

A comfortable, home-like ambiance backed by expertise, filled with love. Contact us today, or download our Guide to Respite Care to see how you can “test drive” senior living. We’d love to hear from you.