St. Andrew's Resources for Seniors System

03/18/2022

03/17/2022

St. Andrew’s Resources for Seniors System announced today Janet Leigh has been named Chief Development Officer for St. Andrew’s Charitable Foundation.

As Chief Development Officer, Leigh will be responsible for the direction of St. Andrew’s philanthropic fund development strategy, expansion of its philanthropic support, and acceleration of funding for new innovations.

A St. Louis native, Leigh is an executive with over 20 years of experience building strong donor and corporate relationships. Since 2018, she has been the Director of Business Development at Gabriel Group where she helped their Nonprofit Division in all areas of advancement including donor acquisition, donor renewal, individual and corporate donors, major gifts, giving societies, and planned giving and legacy gifts.

Leigh previously served as Director of St. Louis Member Relations at the Missouri Chamber of Commerce, Director of Development at Nurses for Newborns, and National Sales Manager for Carson-Dellosa Publishing. She is a graduate of St. Louis University and was inducted into their Athletic Hall of Fame in 2011 for volleyball.

03/17/2022

Happy St. Patrick's Day from St. Andrew's Resources for Seniors System!

02/18/2022

St. Andrew’s Resources for Seniors System is pleased to announce Mary Alice Ryan, former President and Chief Executive Officer for St. Andrew’s Resources for Seniors System, as a 2022 Titan 100. The Titan 100 program recognizes St. Louis’ Top 100 CEOs & C-level executives. They are the area’s most accomplished business leaders in their industry using criteria that includes demonstrating exceptional leadership, vision, and passion. This year’s honorees will be published in a limited-edition Titan 100 book and profiled exclusively online. They will be honored at an awards ceremony on April 28, 2022, and will be given the opportunity to interact and connect multiple times throughout the year with their fellow Titans.

During Mrs. Ryan’s tenure at St. Andrew’s, the organization has grown from two senior apartment buildings in 1983 to sixteen (16) senior communities; home & community based services; Handy House Doc; Caring Workplace; created St. Andrew’s Charitable Foundation, $87 million in revenues; over 1,100 employees serving more than 8,700 seniors yearly; and is ranked by the St. Louis Business Journal as the 12th largest nonprofit organization in the area.

“Under the leadership of Mary Alice, St. Andrew’s has served as a catalyst improving the lives of older adults with a focus on person centered care and innovation. The St. Andrew’s family is proud to see Mary Alice recognized with the Titan 100 award. This award is further evidence of the significant contribution and commitment to service by Mary Alice,” says William Holman, President and Chief Executive Officer of St. Andrew’s.

Mrs. Ryan will be honored at the Titan 100 awards on April 28, 2022, at The Factory located in Chesterfield, Missouri. The Factory is one of the anchors in the new entertainment complex – The District, the first built from-the-ground-up performance and event venue in the Midwest in more than twenty years. This unique cocktail-style awards event will gather 100 Titans of Industry for an evening unlike anything that exists in the St. Louis business community.

11/05/2021

The Ziegler Report annually ranks the nation’s largest not-for-profit senior living organizations to better understand the growing senior living industry. St. Andrew’s Resources for Seniors is proud of our rankings in the new 2021 Ziegler Report highlighting our notable wide range of senior living community options.

In the 2021 Ziegler Report, St. Andrew’s Resources for Seniors ranked in the Top 100 for number of ALU units, Skilled Nursing units, total managed units, total communities, total market rate and affordable units combined, and total Home and Community Based Services revenues.

For more information about The Ziegler Report, you can visit https://standrews1.com/news/ziegler-report.

10/26/2021

Bill Holman to Succeed Mary Alice Ryan as President and CEO of St. Andrew's Resources for Seniors System effective January 1st

Bill Holman to Succeed Mary Alice Ryan as President and CEO of St. Andrew’s Resources for Seniors System Effective January 1.

09/07/2021

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the priority at St. Andrew’s Resources for Seniors System has been to ensure a safe home for residents and a safe workplace for employees. In a further effort to best limit risks for the vulnerable people they care for and to continue to ensure they protect employees, St. Andrew’s is requiring employees start the COVID-19 vaccination series by October 1, 2021. Effective August 31, 2021, new employees will be required to have the COVID-19 vaccine as a part of the new hire process. While the official date of this effort is October 1, St. Andrew’s is strongly encouraging all staff to be vaccinated as soon as possible.

“With the rate of COVID-19 cases rising, much in part due to the highly contagious Delta variant, we believe we must act to protect our residents and staff,” said Mary Alice Ryan, President and CEO of St. Andrew’s Resources for Seniors System. “We often receive requests from families and residents asking that only vaccinated staff provide care, and we believe that every person we serve deserves the peace of mind of knowing we have limited their risk as much as possible. We must continue to do everything we can to combat the virus and requiring employees be vaccinated is an important step.”

08/16/2021

Congratulations to St. Andrew's CEO and President Mary Alice Ryan for being selected to the St. Louis Business Journals 2021 class of Most Influential Business Women. For over 20 years, the Most Influential Business Women Awards program annually recognizes the accomplishments of the region's women business leaders. She was honored with a luncheon this past Friday, and we are proud of her many accolades!

07/09/2021

The following communities will be attending the JobNewsUSA Job Fair on Thursday, July 15h:

- St. Andrew's Resources for Senior Systems
- St. Andrew's Senior Solutions
- St. Andrew's Assisted Living of Bridgeton
- Brooking Park
- Cape Albeon
- St. Andrew's at Francis Place
- St. Andrew's at New Florence
- The Sarah Community
- Tower Grove Manor
- The Willows at Brooking Park

07/01/2021

St. Andrew’s Charitable Foundation’s Safe Home for Seniors program recently installed a chairlift so 87 year old Sal could safely go outside for the first time in a year!
Sal has been homebound for the past year because of a series of health issues hindering his ability to go down the stairs that lead out of his home.
The Safe Home for Seniors program provides low-income seniors with minor home repairs and safety installations. We were honored to install Sal’s chairlift so he could safely go to his doctor’s appointments and join his loved ones outside this summer.
You can find more information about our Safe Home for Seniors program here: https://www.standrewscharitablefoundation.org/.../safe.../

06/29/2021

Congratulation to Mary Alice Ryan on being included by the St. Louis Business Journal in their 2021 class of the Most Influential Business Women. An honor well-deserved!

With the help of previous winners, the St. Louis Business Journal has reviewed nearly 150 nominations and selected the 2021 class of Most Influential Business Women.

06/04/2021

The St. Andrews HUD apartments. independent living, assisted living and nursing homes have achieved high levels of vaccinations and staff remains diligent in our efforts to maintain the safety protocols we have had in place since March 2020 to keep our residents and staff as healthy as possible.

U.S. nursing homes are one of the “safest places to be” for seniors, with new data revealing COVID-19 cases at skilled nursing facilities have declined 98% since December and have accounted for just 0.3% of all U.S. cases since mid-May.

That’s according to the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care, which, in a blog posted Tuesday, detailed the progress made at nursing homes since vaccinations at facilities began in late December.

New nursing home fatalities accounted for about 74% of all COVID-related deaths among U.S. seniors during December, according to federal data. That figure has since dropped to 28% as of April, according to the organization.

“The drop in nursing home cases has outstripped the drop in case counts amongst surrounding populations, which in some areas were on the rise, even as vaccines become more readily available,” wrote Beth Burnham Mace, NIC’s chief economist and director of outreach, and data analyst Omar Zahraoui.

“Currently, more fatalities are occurring in the general population of older adults over 85 years of age than in those living in nursing homes,” they added.

Data also revealed that overall cases among residents dropped to their lowest point in the pandemic when just six residents in 10,000 tested positive for COVID-19 during the week ending May 16. That’s compared to more than 300 residents per 10,000 testing positive during the week of Dec. 20.

Mace and Zahraoui said the findings “reflect the magnitude of the impact of the U.S. vaccination program on nursing home residents.”

“The data clearly tracks with the nationwide effort to prioritize nursing home residents for vaccinations. Case counts began to steeply decline as the Pfizer, and then the Moderna vaccines began to be distributed to nursing homes across the country on December 20, 2020. Nursing home case counts remain low, particularly when compared to infection rates among the general population, which have roared back in recent weeks,” the two wrote.