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INSIDE JAA MEMORY CARE

THE JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING

ADMINISTRATION | 200 JHF DRIVE | PITTSBURGH, PA 15217 | 412-420-4000
The Jewish Association on Aging (JAA) is a comprehensive senior healthcare
network of residential communities and services, the only continuum of its kind
within the City of Pittsburgh. Communities include skilled nursing, personal care,
assisted living, and independent living. Services include home health, hospice,
rehabilitation, physical therapy, meal delivery, adult day and nighttime memory
care, and in-home service coordination. Over the past 110+ years, JAA has grown
to become a premier health and wellness center for seniors. We are experts in our
field, providing dependable, respectful, professional care consistent with our Jewish
values and traditions. We exist to help seniors age, no matter who they are, what
they believe, or where they choose to grow older.

In FY 2019, JAA provided $4.3 million
(12% of the overall expense budget) in
uncompensated and charitable care and
services to the most vulnerable in our AHAVA MEMORY CARE
community CENTER OF EXCELLENCE
Increased the number of clients served by 200 JHF DRIVE | PITTSBURGH, PA 15217
4% (4,000 total) FOR INFORMATION 412-521-5677
FOR TOURS 412-521-8295
Joined forces with The New Riverview
Apartments, breaking ground on a multi- AHAVA is a state-of-the-art, assisted-living
million dollar renovation and offering JAA community created to enhance independence
services to all residents for those with Alzheimer’s disease and other
forms of dementia or memory loss. With 30
Increased JAA’s annual fund by 25%, spacious rooms, AHAVA works in partnership
instituted a planned giving campaign, and with the Hearthstone Institute and uses
®
raised nearly $1.5 million for the ongoing the I’m Still Here™ evidence-based, non-
capital campaign pharmacological approach to treatment. AHAVA
Enhanced security measures including is certified as a Center of Excellence due to its
adding a new guest sign-in system innovative practices and positive results.
Established Music & Art and Perpetual In FY 2019, AHAVA expanded staff training
Yahrzeit Endowments to include opportunities to become Certified
Dementia Practitioners
Participated in Medicaid Care Coordination Began “Opening Minds through Art” program to
Pilot, recognized by U.S. Senate Finance encourage residents’ sociability through creative
Committee for efficiencies and economies self-expression
of scale in senior healthcare

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