Bible Students Retirement Centers

Food service program, providing a nutritious hot meal monday through friday to retirement center residents who choose to participate. This program bills residents at month end for the actual meals they have taken, at well below market prices. They sign up for the new week of meals after they see the menu for that week. Residents currently pay $8 per meal, or about 49% of the cost.

Low income subsidy program - expenses consisted of rental subsidies totaling $8,248.60 for 3 residents, meal subsidies of $3,096 for 3 residents, phone/personal alarm subsidies for 2 residents totaling $1,290.71, and in-home help services for 2 subsidy residents totaling $440.

In-home reimbursement fund. Each resident is gifted a one-time $500 fund which may be drawn against after presenting paid receipts for the in-home health related service. This program is to encourage residents to remain in their homes longer by engaging and paying directly for outside services to help them. The program provides for the resident to choose when they wish to invoke their $500 benefit. This fiscal period several residents began to utilize this fund.