Lawrence Community Matters – March 2024

MARCH 2024

Lawrence residents offered unique opportunity to learn about presidential libraries

What is similar between these American cities: West Branch, Iowa; Hyde Park, New York; Austin, Texas; Atlanta, Georgia and Abilene, Kansas? They’re all homes to a United States Presidential Library and Museum.

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Lawrence Presbyterian Manor issues

Art is Ageless® call for entries

Time is quickly running out if you want to enter your works of art in our annual Art is Ageless® exhibit and competition.

Lawrence Presbyterian Manor is seeking artists for the annual Art is Ageless® juried exhibit March 11 – 18, 2024.

Entries of artistic works will be accepted from any area artist who is 65 years of age or over to exhibit and/or compete for an opportunity to be featured in the 2025 Art is Ageless calendar. Entries are due to Lawrence Presbyterian Manor, 1429 Kasold Dr., by 5 p.m. March 6.

The juried exhibit will be held March 11-18 at the community.

“It’s exciting to see what our artists enter every year,” said Chris Phelps, senior living sales specialist. “We’re always impressed by the beautiful works of art but most of all, we appreciate the positive impact

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And thanks to an ongoing partnership with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Kansas, residents and friends of Lawrence Presbyterian Manor now have three opportunities to learn more about the 13 Presidential Libraries and Museums in the United States.

The event is called Exploration Time: Discover the Thirteen United States Presidential Libraries and Museums and will be offered on three dates:

3/20, 3/27, 4/3

1-3 p.m.

These courses will be held Lawrence Presbyterian Manor

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and open to the public. These events will be held/hosted by us as part of our Just Ask series in partnership with the Osher Spring series.

You can learn more about Osher at: https://jayhawkglobal.ku.edu/osher-home The presidential libraries and museums are impressive structures that hold valuable presidential documents and artifacts.

Where else can you find a wheelchair that was used daily by one of the presidents, a collection of moonrocks, the "Flying White House, the presidential Air Force One plane, or view the World War II actual world maps studied by the U.S. Commander in Chief before sending American troops to strategic locations?

The course gives a general overview of the Who, Where, When, What and Why of the thirteen U.S. Presidential Libraries and Museums. Special emphasis is on the two outstanding local U.S. Presidential Libraries and Museums closest to Lawrence: the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum in Abilene, Kansas and the Truman Library and Museum in Independence, Missouri. The other 11 will also be mentioned, based on personal visits to the libraries and museums and scholarly research.

Instructor: Attorney Anita Tebbe is a retired a professor of legal studies at Johnson County Community College. u

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Local competition winners will join winners from 14 other PMMA (Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America®) senior living communities to be judged at the

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systemwide level. Winning entries may be featured in the calendar. Artists may also choose to enter works for exhibit only.

The Art is Ageless® program encourages Presbyterian Manor residents and other area seniors to express their creativity through its

art annual competition. For entry forms and more information, contact Chris Phelps at 785-841-4262 or cphelps@pmma.org, or visit ArtIsAgeless.org. u

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is published quarterly for residents and friends of Lawrence Presbyterian Manor by Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America, Inc., a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization.

To submit or suggest articles: cphelps@pmma.org.

Desi Flerlage, executive director

Christopher Phelps, senior living sales specialist

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Lawrence Presbyterian Manor wins 2024 Pinnacle Customer Experience Award!

Congratulations to Lawrence Presbyterian Manor Independent Living for winning the 2024 Pinnacle Customer Experience Award, earned because of positive customer feedback through telephone surveys.

Lawrence Presbyterian Manor seeks customer feedback through monthly telephone surveys. Each month, residents and their representatives are randomly selected to participate in telephone satisfaction surveys conducted by Pinnacle Quality Insight.

Earning this award means Lawrence Presbyterian Manor consistently ranks among the top 15% of providers nationally.

The graphic highlights some of the survey results. All scores are given on a 5-point scale, with 5 being the highest

score and 1 the lowest score.

Between January 2023 and December 2023, Lawrence Presbyterian Manor residents and their families gave the community high scores for demonstrating dignity and respect, for the nursing care and for meeting individual needs.

“I appreciate the friendliness and helpfulness of the staff,” said one resident’s family member. “I would

tell others it's a very nice facility. The staff makes it very personable to the residents.”

We greatly value the opinions of our residents and their representatives about the care and services we provide, and we encourage them to participate honestly when contacted by Pinnacle Quality Insight. All state and federal confidentiality laws are met in Pinnacle’s service. u

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