CEI Fall 2010 PDF - Center for Elders` Independence

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Center
for
E l d e r s’ I n d e p e n d e n c e
Fall 2010
Congressman Pete Stark accepts Legislator
of the Year Award from CEI
On a beautiful evening in May, 250 friends and supporters
of Center for Elders’ Independence celebrated eighteen
years of successful service to the East Bay community.
Tin’s Tea House provided wonderful dim sum while guests
mingled at the historic Dunsmuir Estate and Gardens.
Donors, caregivers, participants, volunteers and staff
all celebrated together by dancing to the sounds of the
Frisky Frolics, enjoying the art show by participant Marion
Modena, and simply enjoying each other’s company.
CEI chose to honor two very special individuals for their
service to East Bay Seniors at this May 14th event. The
first honoree was founding Board Member Marty Lynch
for his years of dedicated service to the organization.
And there was a truly heartwarming moment when
Congresswoman Barbara Lee received a standing ovation
while she introduced the recipient of our legislator of the
year award, Congressman Pete Stark.
CEI would like to extend our gratitude to all the sponsors
and attendees who contributed to this very special evening.
Honorees Marty Lynch and Congressman Pete Stark with
Congresswoman Barbara Lee and Peter Szutu
Bob Bridwell, Perry Haviland, Eric Venzon and
Peter Szutu toast 18 years of CEI services.
Arnold Perkins (left)
and Michael Smart
In This Issue
Tasty dim sum from Alice
Chan’s Tin’s Teahouse
Participant Marion Modena
had an art showing.
Caregiver Crystal
Rivers and her mother,
Participant Wilma Isler
Debra Weberling and her
mom, Patricia, celebrate.
Congressman Stark - Legislator of the Year Award .... 1
CEO Note.................................................................... 2
Participants make dresses for girls in Haiti................. 3
Thank you to our donors ........................................... 4
Thank you to our 2010 ‘S Wonderful Sponsors.......... 5
Participant thanks CEI in poetry and paint................. 6
Partners donate plasma TVs to PACE Centers . .......... 7
Note from Peter Szutu, CEO
Health care is a right, not a commodity.
I have always believed that every
human being has the right to health
care. Health care developed in the notfor-profit world – Community healers,
church sponsored hospitals and the
local physician were the backbone
of health care for centuries. But this
country has developed a system
where care is bought and sold on the
stock market and the focus is on the
quarterly profit margin. A corporate
bureaucrat can decide if we live or die.
seniors and we keep them healthier
than they would be in the nonintegrated health care system. And
if we don’t do our job and keep them
healthier and more independent, we
have to absorb the cost of expensive
care like hospitalizations or skilled
nursing facility stays. The incentives
are all properly aligned. Health care
organizations with this business model
can only stay in business by providing
stellar preventive, maintenance and
early interventive care to their patients.
This is why I got involved with
the community clinic
movement some thirty
years ago. We proudly
declared that health
care is a right, not a
privilege. This was
also why I got a
master’s degree in
public health. Public
health looks at what
needs to be done for the
health of the whole society
instead of taking the viewpoint
of just one person, one disease, or
one organization’s profit margin.
It’s important that our health care
systems look for ways to PREVENT
illness rather than only concentrating
on how to treat it.
In this environment, where the
State of California is cutting many health and
human services for
seniors, it is important that you stay
in touch with your
elected representatives and ask
them to look at ways
to increase tax equity
in the state so we have
a bigger budget to work
from. Senior safety net services,
especially innovative ones like CEI, are
a necessary foundation for California’s
future.
And this is why I have been inspired
by PACE. We pioneered the “medical
home” that the new national health
care reform promotes. Our participants
have all of their needs addressed and
all the different experts and providers
talk to each other and with the family
and participant to achieve coordinated
care. PACE is the ultimate “accountable
care organization.” We take the
sickest and frailest of our precious
And stay tuned for information about
the next Bay Area Senior Health Care
Policy Forum being planned for spring
of 2011 in San Francisco. Join CEI and
On Lok to help build the safety net for
seniors. Thanks for your support!
Editor: Dianna Garrett
Designer: David Caggiano
Writer: Elinor Davis
Page 2 ~ Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE)
Center For Elders’
Independence
Locations
Downtown Oakland
1955 San Pablo Ave.
Oakland, CA 94612
8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Monday - Friday
8 a.m. - 4 p.m.,
Saturday
Berkeley
1497 Alcatraz Ave.
Berkeley, CA 94702
8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Monday - Friday
East Oakland
Eastmont Town Center
7200 Bancroft Ave.
Suite 275 & Suite 188
Oakland, CA 94605
8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Monday - Friday
Administrative Offices
510 - 17th Street
Oakland, CA 94612
8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Monday - Friday
Participants make dresses for girls in Haiti
Once again the Ladies of the Good Time Café sewing
group at CEI’s Eastmont PACE Center have put their
talents to use to benefit children they will never meet.
Last spring following the devastating earthquake in
Haiti, Eastmont Activity Director Lillian Jackson heard
about a project called Little Dresses for Africa, which
has mobilized people across the country to make
simple dresses out of pillowcases for girls in Africa.
The organization was now calling on the public to send
pillowcase dresses to Haiti where tens of thousands of
people had lost their possessions when their homes
collapsed in the quake.
Patricia Masangya, Marcelina Cruz, Activity Aide Lillian
Jackson and Telesfora Horstman choose different
trimmings for each unique little dress.
Participant Marcelina Cruz sews the
finishing touches on a pillowcase dress.
Making pretty dresses for girls who have very little to
call their own has been a fitting follow-up project for
the enterprising sewing circle at Eastmont. Two years
ago, they made 50 dolls for abused and abandoned
children at a shelter in South Africa and last year they
created quilts and diaper bags for babies born to lowincome families at Oakland’s Highland Hospital. These
and other activities at CEI’s PACE Centers give seniors
ways to exercise creativity and maintain motor and
cognitive skills while making something of value
for others in need. CEI staff also feels very gratified
knowing their efforts can benefit seniors and children
simultaneously.
~Elinor Davis
CEI staff supplied the new pillowcases, which Lillian
prepared by cutting and machine-stitching the fabric
into the basic dress shape. Participants completed each
dress by hand, sewing on lace trim and pockets and
using ribbons to create shoulder straps. The resulting
garments ranged in size from 2T to 14, no two exactly
alike. San Pablo Center’s Activity Director Angelique
Ogden took up the cause as well and worked with San
Pablo participants to make additional dresses.
The project coincided with Older Americans Month,
which honors seniors and their contributions to our
world. “This allows them to make a very real difference
for little girls in dire need,” said Lillian. It also makes
a difference for CEI’s seniors as one of many ongoing
activities that help seniors stay active and engaged while
socializing at a PACE Day Center with fellow participants
who have become friends.
Eastmont
Activity Aide
Lillian Jackson
displays a
finished dress.
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Thank you to our donors
ORGANIZATION
Advanced Medical Personnel Inc.
Aging Services of California
Alameda Alliance for Health
Alameda County Board of
Supervisors--4th District
Alameda County Board of
Supervisors--5th District
Alliance for Healthcare
Consulting, Inc.
Arlequin Café
Asian Art Museum
Asian Health Services
Bench and Bar
Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Berkeley Symphony Orchestra
Bette’s Oceanview Diner
California HealthCare Foundation
California Shakespeare Festival
California’s Great America
Canadian Women’s Club of the San
Francisco Bay Area
Center for Strategic Facilitation
Chaparral House
Chessy Say Jewelry
Christian Church Homes of
No. California
Claremont Resort & Spa
Davis Properties Company, LLC
Direct Line Tele Response
East Bay Assisted Living
EBP Consulting Services, Inc.
Eco Sound Medical Services
Episcopal Senior Communities
Exploratorium
Flora Restaurant
Friendly Transportation, Inc.
Half Moon Bay Lodge
Harbin Hot Springs
Haviland Associates Architects
Hornblower Cruises and Events
HospiScript
H’s Lordships
Kaiser Permanente
La Mediterranee
Landmark Theatre Corp.
Law Office of William Webster
LifeLong Medical Care
Long Life Care Home, Inc.
Mama’s Royal Cafe
Marin Theatre Company
Marriott Hotel
Napa Valley Wine Train
Nutrition Solutions
Oakland East Bay Symphony
On Lok Senior Health Services
Pave’ Fine Jewelry Design
Payden & Rygel
Peet’s Coffee
Portal Insurance Agency, Inc.
Prescott Hotel, a Kimpton Hotel
Rosen, Bien & Galvan, LLP
San Francisco Giants
San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art
San Francisco Symphony
San Jose Sharks
Sarber’s Cameras
Satellite Housing, Inc.
Scandia Family Center, Inc.
Semifreddi’s Bakery
Shotgun Players
Sorensen’s Resort
St. Mary Prescription Pharmacy
Stark Miller Financial Benefit Group
Steven Silver Productions, Inc.
Team Up for Youth
Teamwrkx
The Campbell Family Trust
The East Bay Korean American Senior
Services Center
Tin’s Tea House Lounge, Inc.
Vichy Springs Resort
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INDIVIDUAL
Anita Addison
A.O. & J.K. Banta
Peter & Barbara Bond
Daniel & Anne Bookin
Erica Brevet-Stott
Dorothy Brooke
Alan Burr
S. L. Castellanos
Grant Chappell
Helen Chen, MD
Richard Clark & Patricia Reed
Marcie Cohen
Patrick Cullinane
Sandra Decker
Laurie Earp
Ernest Galvan & Elizabeth Carty
Yolanda Gamble
Steven Gillman
Andrew Grzeskowiak
Cindy Heavens
Eddie Hill
Jerry Hill
Petrice Kam, GnP-C
Eileen Kunz
Sarah Leonard
Ted Low, D.D.S.
Marty Lynch & Eileen Carey
Woon Wai Ma
Dev & Linda Mahadevan
Thomas Mazzotta & Kathryn
Stambaugh
Anita McClendon
Theresa Nelson
Carolyn Novosel
Peter & Lydia Oh
K.J. Page
Christopher & Marian Pappe
Elaine Pector
Arnold Perkins
Corinne Permaul
Lauren Permaul
Naidu & Jane Permaul
Cheryl Phillips
Paul & Florence Raskin
Lise Rehsbock
Barbara Rosenlicht
Michael & Martha Rossman
Craig & Lillian Samuel
Charles & Marisa Seaman
Jane Selby
Ed & Susie Stark
Stephen Staudenmeir, CPA, APC
Bill Sumski
Peter Szutu & Jan Eldred
Gary Tom
Jesse Waters
Thank you to our 2010 ‘S Wonderful - Sponsors
Community Level
Nutrition Solutions
Breakthrough Level
Asian Health Services
Davis Properties Company, LLC
Kaiser Permanente
On Lok Lifeways
St. Mary Prescription Pharmacy
Szutu/Eldred Family
Venture Level
East Bay Assisted Living
Portal Insurance Agency, Inc.
Rosen, Bien & Galvan, LLP
Evolution Level
Alliance for Healthcare
Consulting, Inc.
Daily Digital Imaging
Eco Sound Medical Services
HospiScript Services
Naidu & Jane Permaul
Ed Stark, Suhr Risk Services
Stark Miller Financial Benefit
Group: Bruce Miller &
Jason Pera
Ally Level
ABC Security Services, Inc.
Aging Services of California
Bench and Bar
Center for Strategic Facilitation
Helen Chen, MD
Haviland Associates Architects
Long Life Care Home, Inc.
Lauren Permaul
Make a Donation to CEI
CEI could not do the vital work that we do without the assistance
of community members who also care about seniors. There are
many ways you can help:
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Make a tax-deductible donation in the envelope provided.
Consider a Memorial or Honor gift.
Donate office or medical equipment.
Check to see if your employer will make a matching gift.
Find out about including CEI in your will (check the box on
the envelope).
Each dollar we receive helps us provide healthcare services to
seniors in East Bay communities so they can stay as autonomous
as possible. Please consider a tax-deductible donation today!
Use the envelope provided or send your donations to:
CEI - Donations
510 - 17th Street
Oakland, CA 94612
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Thank you to CEI
Board members for their
vision and service
Michael Harris
Chair, Nominating Committee
Chair, Consumer Advisory
Committee
Participant thanks CEI in poetry and paint
Eddie Hill
Eastmont participant Mr. To Chan is an artist in Chinese painting and
calligraphy. He joined CEI in December 2009. He enjoys coming to the
Center and deeply appreciates the services that CEI provides.
He composed a poem thanking CEI for the help he receives. He penned it
in an old fancy Chinese font, put it in a 22” x 30” frame and donated it to
CEI as a token of his gratitude. It’s now prominently displayed in the main
day room at Eastmont.
Eastmont Center Director Simon Tse copied it into regular Chinese print
font, for those who can read regular Chinese. He also translated the
poem into English for all other folks [see below]. “I wanted the translation
to maintain some poetic form, and also be close to the author’s original
thought,” Tse says.
Someone for these old bones to lean on,
Someone to caringly help with my needs;
Peace of mind to close the fleeting years,
Joy within until I depart from here.
Stephanie Jones-Ayers
Vice-Chairperson
Sue Londerville, MD
Chair, Professional Medical
Advisory Committee
Marty Lynch
Secretary
Dev Mahadevan
耆老有人依、冷暖有人知；
Flo Raskin
Treasurer
Chair, Finance Committee
安心度晚歲、終老也自怡。
Joanna Kim-Selby
~To Chan
Michael Smart
Chairperson
Darryl Stewart
Peter Szutu
President & CEO
William Webster
Chair, Fund Development
Committee
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Refer a Friend to CEI
Do you know a friend, family member, client or
neighbor who could benefit from the services CEI
provides? We’d like to hear from you.
Participants in CEI’s PACE program must be:
• 55 years of age or older
• A resident of Northern or Central Alameda
County or West Contra Costa County
• Able to live in the community safely
Pictured from left are Don Huhn, Eco Sound
Juliet Owusu, San Pablo PACE Center
Kim Cabrera, Eco Sound
Mona Leones, San Pablo PACE Center
Susan Medel, CFO
Generous community partners donate
plasma TVs to PACE Centers
Advanced Medical Personnel and Eco Sound Medical
Services have made donations to help CEI purchase
large screen plasma HD TV sets for our PACE Centers.
The new flat-panel 50” TVs can be wall mounted,
replacing old, small sets on carts that were difficult
for many participants to see. “We will use the TVs for
everything from movies and documentaries to exercise
videos and DVD games like Jeopardy,” says San Pablo
Activity Director Angelique Ogden, who also wants to
introduce Wii-hab bowling, pool, golf and trivia games.
“It’s a fun new way for exercise and getting their minds
to work out, too.”
“Some of our participants cannot hear well and visual
activities using the television are very beneficial for
them. The closed caption feature is a plus,” says Josie
Barrow Center Activity Director Gwen Thomas. The
large TVs will enhance our day centers for everyone,
with cultural programs like music and dance videos,
nutrition and other health education, sports, news
and current events. Participants and staff appreciate
these generous donations from thoughtful corporate
community partners.
• Meet the level of care requirements as
determined by the California Department of
Health Care Services
If your friend or family member is eligible for MediCal and Medicare, all CEI services are covered at no
additional cost. Medi-Cal beneficiaries who have a
share-of-cost remain responsible for their individual
share-of-cost. We also accept private-pay clients.
For a FREE information kit, call:
(510) 433-1150
(510) 433-1165 (TDD for the hearing impaired)
8 a.m. – 5 p.m., Monday - Friday
Donation Wish List
• Wii systems
• DVD games
• Board games
• Radios with ear phone jacks for participants
• Picture frames for participant art
• Sewing machines
If you want to donate any of these items,
please call Dianna Garrett at (510) 433-1150.
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Center
for
E l d e r s’
i n d e p e n d e n c e
510 - 17th Street, Suite 400
Oakland, CA 94612
Mission Statement
The Center for Elders’ Independence provides high quality,
affordable, integrated health care services to the elderly,
which promote autonomy, quality of life and the ability of
individuals to live in their communities.
Center
for
E l d e r s’
i n d e p e n d e n c e
Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly
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