Expansion Project
From the discovery of
apparent needs of older adults in Salem County, the Board developed
a vision to turn Friends Home into a life-care facility that could
offer older adults all of the programs they will need as their need
for assistance increases.
A Groundbreaking Ceremony
was held on November 21, 2003. The expansion of its current campus
will allow Friends Home to provide all levels of care to meet the
needs of older adults- now and in the future. The Board of Managers
felt that a new name was necessary to incorporate the current and
new living options into a single community. Friends Home, in January
2005, became Friends Village at Woodstown.
Friends Village held its Grand Opening Celebration and
Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony on September 22, 2005. The expansion
project now complete, Friends Village features
forty-seven independent living cottages, twenty independent
living apartments, forty-five assisted living suites with
twenty specially
designated for Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care, a
sixty-bed Residential Healthcare Unit, an expanded sixty-bed Skilled
Nursing Unit and a new Commons Building to serve as a central point
of services on campus.
