The United Methodist Retirement Communities (UMRC) Foundation, a CMF member, recently announced that it has received a $2.5 million grant to support expansion and renovations to UMRC’s Kresge Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, located in Chelsea.
Content excerpted and adapted from a UMRC Foundation press release.
The United Methodist Retirement Communities (UMRC) Foundation, a CMF member, recently announced that it has received a $2.5 million grant to support expansion and renovations to UMRC’s Kresge Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, located in Chelsea.
The foundation serves as the charitable arm of UMRC, a faith-based, nonprofit organization that promotes the wellness, dignity and independence of older adults.
The grant, given by the Edward N. and Della L. Thome Memorial Foundation, Bank of America, N.A., Trustee, is a focal part of the UMRC Foundation’s $26 million Growing to Serve comprehensive campaign to support three priority initiatives: capital projects, resident services and the benevolent care fund.
“This gift enables us to do so much more to care for the low-income older adults we serve,” Wendy Brightman, president, UMRC Foundation, and chair of the CMF Grantmakers in Aging Affinity Group, said in a press release.
“Thanks to this grant, UMRC is expanding and transforming our Kresge Center into a warm and inviting setting that feels like home for our residents. This grant literally takes our construction to the finish line.”
(The facility is named for Dorothy McVittie Kresge, the wife of Stanley Sebastian Kresge, Sr., who established the Kresge Foundation, a CMF member, in 1924.)
The capital project will be the largest to-date in UMRC’s 112-year history. It has been reported that expansion is scheduled to be completed in December, while renovation to the existing 28,000 square feet of the building will be completed next year.
“With an anticipated 40-year lifespan, this gift ...will serve more than 24,500 aging Michiganders, many who are low-income, dual eligible Medicare and Medicaid patients,” Brightman shared.
