The Official Blog of Episcopal Retirement Services

Members of the ERS team recently attended a groundbreaking ceremony for the new and exciting Manse Apartments for seniors. With affordable housing in short supply for older adults and given ERS's ongoing commitment to supporting the wellbeing of our community’s seniors, we couldn’t be more thrilled about this project or our part in it.

Here’s a closer look at the transformation of this historic Manse Hotel into affordable senior housing means for its future residents.

Episcopal Retirement Services is a comprehensive provider of programs that benefit Cincinnati and Tristate seniors. Since 1951, we’ve worked to improve the lives of older adults through innovative, quality senior living communities and community services.

At Episcopal Retirement Services (ERS), our residents have experienced that special relationship with a care provider or supportive team member who went above and beyond to make them or their family members feel welcome, cared for, and honored.

Episcopal Retirement Services’ Parish Health Ministry (PHM) held its annual Refresh Your Soul conference on March 18th. The theme of this sold-out event was “Living well with purpose.” If you weren’t able to be with us at the Cintas Center earlier this spring, here’s a closer look at what you missed, along with what you need to know about next year’s conference.

Episcopal Retirement Services—the Tristate’s premier, not-for-profit retirement care and affordable senior living provider—has just been named one of Cincinnati Enquirer’s Top Workplaces for the 10th year in a row. We are one of only five companies to receive this award all 10 years, and we couldn’t be more proud of the hard-working staff members, volunteers, and board members who made this achievement possible.

As nursing careers go, pediatric medicine or acute care may be a more familiar path. But nurses who have not considered senior care may be missing a rewarding career option.

Let’s examine four reasons why a career in retirement care might be one of the better options for nurses and allied health professionals on their career journeys.

Given that lifespan is increasing with each generation and the massive population of baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964 have reached or are nearing retirement, one thing is abundantly clear: the future is 50-plus. So isn’t it time we abandoned harmful stereotypes about seniors and celebrated the many contributions they make to society?

Enter the 50-Plus Cincy Celebration, co-sponsored by Episcopal Retirement Services (ERS). Here’s a closer look at this event, why it matters, and how you can be a part of it.

We are living in an exciting time during which knowledge changes by the day. Also changing, if we’re open to it? How we use that knowledge. Enter one of Episcopal Retirement Services' Core Values: Progressive thinking. Our Core Values are central to our Ways of Working, and therefore guide everything we do. Here’s a closer look at why the mindset of “progressive thinking” matters so much to the culture at ERS, and how we’re making the most of it—for staff, our residents and the community at large.

Refresh Your Soul 2019 Speaker Rabbi Abie Ingber sat down with us and answered a few of our questions.

ERS: We’re riding on an elevator. You have 1 minute to tell me your story. What is it?

RABBI: Just like everybody else, I was born before I was born. I inherited the Holocaust experiences of my parents, even though I was born in freedom, and here in America. I served for 30 years at the University of Cincinnati, retired once, then served for a decade at Xavier, and retired a second time. Now, I am pursuing projects that I am really excited about, and serving as Rabbi-in-Residence at the Episcopal Christ Church Cathedral. I am very eager to be one of the presenters at the Refresh Your Soul Conference on March 18 at the Cintas Center at Xavier. 

When the deal was done, and St. Paul Village became the third member of the ERS affordable living family, the CEO of ERS, Doug Spitler, sat down with Jay Kittenbrink.

Kittenbrink, a Madisonville native, had run his neighborhood’s largest retirement community for twenty-six years, with varying results. The buildings were growing old and tired. The people had stopped coming to rent the 80 efficiency units.