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2009-2015 – The Continuing Care Vision Expands Cedar Hill had always provided memory care services for its community members in Victorian House and at Teddy’s Place. The secure units in the existing buildings were effective but offered limited space and amenities to patients with advanced memory care needs. “It is important that people in individual and…
More than a dozen veterans gathered at a very special luncheon hosted at the Village at Cedar Hill on November 9 to celebrate Veteran’s Day, commemorate the 100th Anniversary of Armistice Day, and to receive the gratitude of the community for their service. Ruth Barton, Village Activities Director, organized the event, bringing together the Veterans…
1999 – The Assisted Living Dream Becomes a Reality By September of 1999, Mary Louise and Judith obtained their second HUD-insured loan, enabling them to begin work on the independent and assisted living area. The plans that were developed by Paul Biebel and Paul Carroll in 1994 were used to construct The Village in a…
1989- 2018 – Thirty Years of Schoolchildren and Seniors We began bringing local schoolchildren and seniors together on our very first Halloween back in 1988, and the tradition continues to this day. Through our Adopt-a-Grandparent program, kindergarten through eighth-grade students from local schools are given the opportunity to “adopt” a resident as a “grandparent.” These young people…
With the first round of Victorian House renovations complete, Mary Louise began working with Paul Biebel of Biebel Builders in Windsor and Architect Paul Carroll, from Boston, to design two new buildings—a skilled nursing home and an independent and assisted living area. “We talked with them about our dream for the community. We wanted an attractive…
The story of Cedar Hill Continuing Care Community begins in 1988 with two nursing professionals at the height of their careers: Mary Louise Sayles and Judith Brogren. The two women were working at Sullivan County Nursing Home in Unity, New Hampshire when Mary Louise struck up a friendship with the night security guard, who held a daytime…
By TORY DENIS Special to the Eagle Times WINDSOR, Vt. — Cedar Hill Continuing Care Community has seen three decades of positive change and innovation in many forms, and three generations of owner Mary Louise Sayles’s family, since the facility was purchased in 1988. This year, the award-winning Cedar Hill celebrates 30 years of serving…
In our “Through the Years at Cedar Hill” series, we start in the 1960’s, at the beginning of Cedar Manor, the first nursing home on the property, opened by Louise and Charlie Schmitt in 1964. They owned Cedar Manor until 1978 when Louise retired. In 1988 Mary Louise Horn and her business partner Judy Brogren, both registered…
As we celebrate 30 years of caring for Seniors, we thought it would be nice to look back on the early days and see just how far we’ve come. We’ll be posting a series of historical posters over the next few weeks, each one representing a different era in our history. Check back often to…
As part of our ongoing celebration of 30 years of caring for seniors, We were honored recently to be featured in a large multi-page special section of the Eagle Times with multiple stories and lots of great historical photos of our changing campus over the years. In case you missed it in the September 29 issue of the…