Capital & Endowment Fund

                                                          Honor Thy Father and Mother…Keeping the Promise

Our parents and grandparents are living longer than ever before, thanks to the advances of medical science.  Fortunately, there are a wonderful range of options for elder care that affords them maximum independence and comfort – up to a point.  Many of us have however reached the point with a loved one where we must look for long-term, skilled care.  When we do, we want a place that will treat our loved one like family.

For more than 100 years, Daughters of Israel Plafsky Family Campus has been that place.  Daughters has upheld the promise imbedded in our Jewish faith and heritage to honor our parents.  Daughters is widely recognized for its outstanding services to the elderly, provided in a Jewish environment rich with care and compassion.

Over the years, Daughters has prided itself in meeting each challenge and change it has faced to assure that the elderly, who require continuous or specialized care, are provided with safe, comfortable and dignified living arrangements and the highest quality care and services, regardless of their social or economic status.

Today, we must ensure that Daughters’ entire facility continues to maintain these high standards our community expects. The increased age and longevity of the residents of Daughters necessitates that the Home’s environment is the most modern and technologically up-to-date.

It is for these reasons that Daughters embarked on a Capital and Endowment Campaign to raise the funds necessary to reconstruct and modernize the Slobodien and Women’s League Pavilions.  Both Pavilions were outdated, worn from years of heavy use and were ill suited to the accessibility needs of the residents, whom are now 75% wheelchair bound.  The renovations were completed in October 2009.  The residents living on these pavilions now have the same optimal quality of life and dignity as the residents in the rest of our building.

The significant changes as a result of the “Honor Thy Father and Mother…Keeping the Promise” Capital and Endowment Campaign are:

• 26 newly refurbished private resident rooms with modern décor and furnishings, enlarged living space, personal storage space, and private showers.

• 42 newly refurbished semi-private resident rooms with a new shared entry, private sleeping quarters, greater private personal living space and storage of personal belongings.

• New personal bathing areas with enlarged bathing space for greater privacy and increased safety.

• Increased wheelchair accessibility throughout the Pavilions.

• Expanded dining rooms with new furnishings and brighter décor.

• Enlarged state-of-the-art nurses’ stations to provide greater peripheral vision of the residents’ rooms and movements within each Pavilion.

• Enlarged and refurbished solariums.

• New call-bell system to enable residents to easily and quickly contact the nurses’ station.

• A new ambulance entrance, generously sponsored by The Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey, offering privacy to residents who are arriving or departing. 
   
• The renovation of the Alta and Janet Cohen Auditorium generously funded by the Levin Family Foundation.

The endowment aspect of the campaign is perhaps the most important part of the campaign.  With government dollars for the elderly who require on-going care shrinking and community support reductions each year, building an endowment for future operating needs and capital building improvements is essential

Daughters of Israel, a not-for-profit agency, founded upon the Jewish traditions of “tzedakah” and “tikun olam,” depends on the financial support from the Jewish community.  This campaign is a statement to our Jewish community that there will not be any compromising in the quality of life or continuing care Daughters provides the Jewish elderly of MetroWest.

Join us and be a part of this historic effort to celebrate our commitment to Jewish life and secure the future of our most cherished Jewish agency—today, tomorrow and always.

Gifts to the Capital and Endowment Fund will enable us to address future capital and operational needs, including:

• A complete renovation of the Barnhard Pavilion, to include a new kitchen, nurse’s station, dining room, living room, corridors and residents’ rooms.

• Refurbishment of our lobbies to make for a more comfortable and inviting atmosphere.

• Construction of a new entranceway from the Slobodien Pavilion to the rehab gym, enabling our sub-acute clients convenient access to the gym from their unit.

• Enhancing technological capabilities throughout the home, including improved Wi-Fi access.

• Purchase of new furniture for the Sudler Atrium.