“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something… If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.” — Barack Obama

Dear Bethany Friends, 

During the past several months of the COVID-19 pandemic it would have been easy, it might even have made sense, to feel hopeless. Instead, you chose to make good things happen through your gift to Bethany Health Care Center.

I am overwhelmed by your response to my letter this spring. And I want you to know about the significant impact you have made with your generosity. Because of you, we have had the resources to:

• Purchase a Clorox® Total 360® System sanitizing machine that allows us to disinfect 100% of the facility on a regular basis;
• Provide a complimentary hot meal to all Bethany front line employees during every shift they have worked throughout this crisis;
• Acquire critical personal protective equipment such as masks, gloves, gowns, and hand sanitizer to help keep our residents and staff safe and healthy; and
• Provide additional hazard pay to the front line staff who have so compassionately cared for our residents during this crisis.

“If not for the generosity of Bethany’s donors, we would not have had the resources to contain the COVID-19 virus as well as we did. At one point we needed 200 masks and 50 disposable gowns per day. Because of our donors we had an adequate supply of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to keep our residents and staff safe.”

— Jim Argir, General Manager

Thank You to Our Foundation Partners

We are also tremendously grateful to the following foundations whose generous financial support to Bethany during the COVID-19 crisis enabled us to focus on delivering the highest levels of care, and to keeping all of our residents and staff safe.

Thank you for caring so much about Bethany’s residents and staff. We can’t do this without you! 

Sister Jacquelyn McCarthy, CSJ, RN

CEO and Administrator