LOS ANGELES JEWISH HOME ANNUAL REPORT 2012–2013 FROM OUR HOME TO YOURS 135797_Report_r3.indd 1 1/23/14 3:17 PM For more than 100 years, the Los Angeles Jewish Home has been at the forefront of senior care, delivering vital services that sustain health, promote wellness, and celebrate the joy of community. It is both a privilege and a responsibility to carry on this remarkable legacy. We do it with the passion, nurturing, and commitment of an extraordinary group of supporters – volunteers, friends, advocates, and family inspired by a shared heritage and a common vision: keeping our seniors active, independent, and strong. Working together, we enhance the quality of their lives and honor their achievements. True to Jewish Home tradition, today we continue to lead the way, offering a comprehensive healthcare system – unrivaled in its ambition, scope, and capability – that meets seniors’ needs, wherever they may occur. This is the Home we have built: a place for help and hope, and a critical resource for seniors across Los Angeles and beyond. 2 135797_Report_r3.indd 2 1/23/14 3:17 PM TABLE OF CONTENTS LETTER FROM THE CHAIR .....................................................4 LETTER FROM THE CEO-PRESIDENT .......................................5 WHERE COMMUNITY MEETS CARE ......................................7 A NEW HOME ON THE WESTSIDE ......................................9 A SINGULAR VISION .........................................................11 BIG THINKING. OUTSIZED RESULTS. ...................................13 JEWISH HOME SUPPORTERS FY13 .....................................14 FINANCIALS .....................................................................25 3 135797_Report_r3.indd 3 1/23/14 3:17 PM A LETTER FROM THE CHAIR Supporting the Jewish Home is an investment in multiple generations. We serve today’s seniors in need and simultaneously build our capacity to meet future demand. By bridging multiple perspectives, an annual report is perfectly suited to addressing these dual priorities: taking a look back at yesterday’s progress and putting it in the context of tomorrow’s growth. This report comes at an auspicious time on both fronts. Keeping the Vision Expand, Extend, Sustain – our $215 million campaign to build facilities and expand and support programs – has met with great success, already generating more than $118 million in funding commitments. Over the past year, fueled in part by the robust generosity of families across our community, we continued to make progress on the development of the Gonda Healthy Aging Westside Campus in Playa Vista, and our goal of serving 5,000 seniors by 2015 is within reach. We also established a firm footing for the Brandman Centers for Senior Care, the Home’s first Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), on the Grancell Village Campus, and we launched a wide range of other comprehensive senior healthcare services, all while maintaining a high level of quality care. Looking ahead, the Jewish Home is poised for even greater accomplishment. Whether it is supporting the construction of new buildings and the remodeling of current facilities at our Grancell and Eisenberg Villages; developing the Hirsch Family Campus in the San Fernando Valley; expanding our renowned Annenberg School of Nursing; supporting the Home’s operations; or contributing significant capital to our endowment, the coming year is sure to be an exciting and fulfilling one. I look forward to sharing it with you, and I thank you for the extraordinary partnership that makes it possible. Jeffrey Glassman Chair, Board of Directors 4 135797_Report_r3.indd 4 1/23/14 3:17 PM A LETTER FROM THE CEO-PRESIDENT At the conclusion of another meaningful year in our development, it strikes me that the Jewish Home is like a fine wine: strong, bold, and better with age. In 2013, our programs and services – already national models for quality senior care – continued to set new standards for innovation and excellence. I am particularly proud of the newly launched Connections to Care. With a single phone call, seniors and their family members or health advisors can now access the Jewish Home’s wide array of in-your-home, community-based, and in-residence programs and services. These include independent living, adult day healthcare, community clinic, home health and personal care services, short- and long-term care, hospice care, palliative care, acute psychiatric care, and personalized bridge programs. Today, the Jewish Home is both a leading provider of senior healthcare services for the community and a premier residential care facility. Connections to Care enables all seniors in need to benefit from the Home’s life- sustaining warmth and expertise. It is the unflagging commitment of supporters, volunteers, staff, and countless others that paves the way for the Jewish Home’s track record of achievement. Your energy, passion, and generous contributions of time and resources have allowed us to sustain our services, to expand our capacity, and to establish groundbreaking initiatives, from Care Transitions and the Brandman Centers for Senior Care to the ongoing development of our remarkable new Gonda Healthy Aging Westside Campus in Playa Vista. Of course, there is still much work to be done. Meeting the full breadth of seniors’ needs, throughout our community, will require even greater dedication, more collaboration, and a shared vision of where we want to go. The coming year is sure to bring fresh challenges and new opportunities. Working together, we will continue to do exceptional things. Molly Forrest CEO-President 5 135797_Report_r3.indd 5 1/23/14 3:17 PM “ 6 135797_Report_r3.indd 6 1/23/14 3:17 PM WHERE COMMUNITY MEETS CARE The Los Angeles Jewish Home has been Two thousand thirteen also witnessed the recognized as a national leader in the provision naming of the Jewish Home as a lead agency of high quality senior care for more than a for the federal Care Transitions program. century. In 2013, our legacy of distinguished Designed to improve the coordination of service continued to flourish in ways the Home’s services to Medicare patients following hospital founders could scarcely have imagined. discharge, Care Transitions is already playing an important role in our ability to reduce hospital Today, the Jewish Home has transformed re-admissions across our community. And we into a comprehensive healthcare system, fostered continued growth at the Brandman providing in-your-home, community-based, Centers for Senior Care, providing support so and in-residence programs and services that eligible frail seniors are able to live safely in enrich life and enhance wellness at every level their own homes while utilizing a wide range of independence. And our work has never been of Jewish Home health services. more crucial: Seventy-five percent of the seniors we serve rely on government assistance. For This year, we worked at the intersection of care them, the Home is an indispensable lifeline – and community to redefine “home,” enabling coach, caregiver, comforter, and more. more seniors to leverage our vast resources in convenient and innovative ways. Foremost among our recent achievements was the launch of Connections to Care, an exciting new approach to meeting the full range of seniors’ healthcare needs. With a single phone call, Connections to Care now allows seniors and their family members – wherever they live – to access all of the Jewish Home’s award- winning programs and services directly. Seventy-five percent of the seniors we serve rely on government assistance. For them, the Home“ is an indispensable lifeline – coach, caregiver, comforter, and more. ” 7 135797_Report_r3.indd 7 1/23/14 3:17 PM “ 8 135797_Report_r3.indd 8 1/23/14 3:17 PM A NEW HOME ON THE WESTSIDE In 2013, we moved steadily forward in realizing Fountainview at Gonda Westside will feature 18 a long-held dream: creating a Jewish Home unique layouts including one-bedrooms, two- in West Los Angeles. Located in Playa Vista, bedrooms with media rooms, and penthouses. the Gonda Healthy Aging Westside Campus With a debut planned for 2016, the facility will continued to take shape; when it opens its doors, host a full complement of amenities – from it will bring the Home’s signature programs and concierge services, dining venues, and fitness services to a whole new population of seniors. facilities to libraries, gardens, and a center for the performing arts. In 2013, we released floor The two-and-a-half acre campus will inspire plans and pricing and also began accepting comprehensive health and wellness and enable priority deposits. seniors to age in place. With 175 apartments for independent living in Fountainview at This year, we built beyond the horizon, Gonda Westside, a Continuing Care Retirement channeling the hard work, commitment and Community, 24 apartments for assisted living generosity of our community of supporters to and memory care, and priority access to skilled imagine a new place for seniors to call home. nursing care – all provided by the Home – the campus will serve as the hub of an extensive network of senior care services and transform our ability to meet growing community needs. The campus will serve as the hub of an extensive network of senior care services and“ transform our ability to meet growing community needs. ” 9 135797_Report_r3.indd 9 1/23/14 3:17 PM “ 10 135797_Report_r3.indd 10 1/23/14 3:17 PM A SINGULAR VISION At the Jewish Home, we join in common Funding from the campaign will also help us purpose to provide seniors in need with quality as we prepare to: care, compassionate healing, and cohesive community. In 2013, we pursued this vital • Construct new and remodel existing facilities mission by advancing our ambitious $215 at our Grancell and Eisenberg Villages million campaign: Keeping the Vision Expand, • Build the new Hirsch Family Campus in the Extend, Sustain. San Fernando Valley Our objective: increasing the number of seniors • Purchase and renovate a 60-bed skilled nursing we serve to 5,000 by 2015. With more than facility to serve Westside seniors $118 million in commitments, in 2013 we laid down a solid foundation to help us meet this goal.