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Yard Sale at Tradition of the Palm Beaches Yields More Than $2500.00 To Benefit Morse Geriatric Center Resident Council
Bertha Weiss, president of the resident council at the Tradition of the Palm Beaches, presents a check for $2586.00 to Rickie Gallison, president of the resident council of Morse Geriatric Center. The money was raised at the Morse Geriatric Center Annual Yard Sale, hosted by the resident council of the Tradition of the Palm Beaches. The money will go toward resident activities and programs at Morse Geriatric Center.
Bertha Weiss, the first resident of the Tradition of the Palm Beaches when it opened in 2004, attended a Morse Geriatric Center resident council meeting to present a check the check for $2586 to Rickie Gallison, president of the Morse Geriatric Center resident council. The funds will go toward into the budget for the extensive therapeutic recreation program for residents at Morse Geriatric Center.
The Tradition of the Palm Beaches, located on the 37-acre Marilyn and Stanley M. Katz Seniors Campus of MorseLife, offers 144 independent and assisted living residences with amenities and features designed to enhance the senior lifestyle. The newest entity of MorseLife, the Tradition will join its parent company in its 25-year history of meeting the health care and residential needs of the senior population in Palm Beach County.
Morse Geriatric Center, also located on the Marilyn and Stanley M. Katz Seniors Campus of MorseLife, opened in 1983 as the first entity of what is today the MorseLife continuum of health care and residential services for seniors. Today, it is a 280-bed center for both long-term nursing care and through the Levine Rehabilitation Center, the home of MorseLife’s short-term rehabilitation program.
MorseLife is a nationally-recognized provider of health care and residential services for seniors and their families in Palm Beach County. A charitable, not-for-profit organization, its programs include long term care, short term rehabilitation, independent and assisted living, home care, and an institute for geriatric research and education. Founded in 1983, MorseLife has built a reputation and tradition of caring for seniors with excellence, dignity and compassion -- honoring senior living -- now and forever. For more information, visit www.morselife.org.