Bayada Home Health Care Supports Meals On Wheels to Ensure Seniors Throughout Massachusetts Have Access to Nutritious Meals in an Emergency
Nearly 8,500 meals to be delivered to homebound seniors thanks to BAYADA Home Health Care
December 8, 2014 /3BL Media/ - BAYADA Home Health Care, a trusted leader in providing clinical care and support services at home for children and adults of all ages, has partnered with CBS EcoMedia through its WellnessAd program to support Meals On Wheels Association of America’s Massachusetts Emergency Relief Program. The program ensures seniors have access to nutritious, shelf-stable meals in the event of inclement weather or natural disasters. These emergency meals are critical to the survival of homebound seniors should harsh weather or a disaster occur where meal delivery services are interrupted.
Meals On Wheels Association of America is the oldest and largest national organization composed of and representing local, community-based Senior Nutrition Programs in all 50 U.S. states. The Association works to ensure that the nation’s seniors – including retired nurses, soldiers, teachers and firefighters – receive the nutrition and care they need to live the nourished lives they deserve. Meals on Wheels is a proven and effective system that not only fights hunger and isolation, but also allows seniors to remain independent, healthy and safe in their own homes.
Six selected Meals On Wheels Association members in Massachusetts will receive funding from BAYADA, which will support the Members’ emergency relief and meal distribution programs. They are: Coastline Elderly Services, Tri-Valley, Inc., Old Colony Elderly Services, Inc., HESSCO, Springwell, Inc., and Minuteman Senior Services.
BAYADA’s funding will provide nearly 8,500 meals.
To celebrate this innovative partnership, BAYADA employee volunteers will prepare and serve lunch today to seniors at the Belmont Beech Street Center, a senior center that partners with Springwell, Inc. Hosts will include Meghan Ostrander, RD, Nutrition Director, Springwell and Maureen Hixon, Regional Director, BAYADA Home Health Care.
“We are thrilled to be able to provide seniors in our communities with hot, nutritious meals,” said Hixon. “BAYADA believes strongly in providing community service where we live and work. We’re fortunate to be able to help people, especially at this time of the year.”
“It’s an honor to partner with BAYADA to ensure our nation’s seniors receive the nutrition and care they so richly deserve,” said Paul Polizzotto, President and Founder, CBS EcoMedia.
About BAYADA Home Health Care
Founded in 1975 by J. Mark Baiada, BAYADA Home Health Care provides nursing, rehabilitative, therapeutic, hospice, and assistive care services to children, adults, and seniors in the comfort of their homes. Headquartered in suburban Philadelphia, BAYADA employs more than 19,000 nurses, home health aides, therapists, medical social workers, and other home health care professionals who serve their communities in 22 states from more than 290 offices. For more information, visit www.bayada.com.
About Meals On Wheels Association of America
The Meals On Wheels Association of America is the only national organization and network dedicated solely to ending senior hunger in America. The Association is the oldest and largest organization composed of and representing local, community-based Senior Nutrition Programs in all 50 states and U.S. territories. More than 5,000 local Meals on Wheels Programs leverage a dedicated army of two million volunteers who day-in and day-out create an efficient and caring way to help America’s seniors stay independent, healthy and able to live in their own homes. For more information, or to locate a local Meals on Wheels program, visit www.mowaa.org.
About CBS EcoMedia Inc.
At EcoMedia, we’re propelled by the desire to create positive social change; that’s been our mission since we founded the company in 2002. In 2010, after successfully partnering with CBS on a wide range of environmental projects, EcoMedia became the newest addition to the CBS Corporation portfolio, exponentially scaling our reach across television, radio, interactive, publishing and outdoor media.
Through our patent-pending EcoAd, WellnessAd and EducationAd programs, an innovative twist on traditional advertising, advertisers are able to support much-needed local projects which in turn creates jobs, saves taxpayer money and improves the quality of life in communities nationwide. In the process, we’re fundamentally altering the advertising landscape, elevating the ordinary, traditional commercial – and media, in general – into a catalyst for tangible, quantifiable social change. Please visit ecomediacbs.com, like us at facebook.com/EcoMediaCBS or follow us at Twitter.com/EcoMediaCBS.
By participating in EcoMedia’s EcoAd, WellnessAd and EducationAd advertising programs, EcoMedia’s advertisers agree to provide funding for projects we believe will have a beneficial effect upon the environment, health and/or education within local communities. EcoMedia’s advertising programs are not certification programs nor are the EcoAd, WellnessAd or EducationAd logos seals of approval. EcoMedia does not in any way certify, endorse or make any representations about EcoMedia program advertisers, their products or services.
