SOUTH HUTCHINSON, Kan. – Mennonite Friendship Communities is meeting market requests by creating 16 more private rooms.
At the beginning of 2016, MFC will decertify 16 semiprivate rooms and make them private. This will allow them to offer a higher level of health care experience for incoming residents and will create an improved quality of life for individuals who stay in those rooms.
“As we are planning for the future, we realize that shared rooms needed to be changed to remain competitive in the market,” Lowell Peachey, president and CEO, said. “This move will allow MFC to be positioned well in the market for the coming years.”
Mennonite Friendship Communities currently has 70 private beds and 56 semiprivate beds. After decertifying the 16 semiprivate beds, there will be 86 private beds and 24 semiprivate beds.
Studies have found that private rooms are beneficial in improving sleep, which leads to fewer falls; less anxiety; improved continence and gives residents more ease in hosting visitors. The mission at MFC is “enhancing the quality of life of residents, staff and a community at large within a framework of Mennonite values.” Changing these semiprivate rooms to private rooms will help the retirement community to continue to meet the mission.
The change will take place in the south halls of the health care area at MFC.