The administrations of St. Ignatius Nursing & Rehab Center (STINRC), West Philadelphia, PA, for many years under the direction of SM Agatha Cebula and Mr. John Meacham from 1986 to 2016, and now Ms. Susan McCrary from 2017 to 2019, have long held the belief that affordable housing for frail elderly should be accessible in an urban campus adjacent to the skilled nursing facility of STINRC.

Cornwall Manor Retirement Community was founded in 1949 by a group of Methodist clergy and laymen from the Philadelphia Conference of The United Methodist Church (now the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference), led by the Rev. Dr. Levi Zerr and Bishop Fred Pierce Corson, as a home for retired United Methodist clergy, their families and "other deserving persons." On October 15, 1049, the first 11 residents moved into the Buckingham Mansion at The Methodist Church Home at Cornwall.

LECOM Health Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is LeadingAge PA's newest member!

Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network was founded by the Rev. John and Estella Raker who took a disabled child, Viola Hunt, into their home - the first of many, from newborns to centenarians, to be cared for by the couple.

It all started in 1982. The spark was a seemingly simple question: how can we bring the benefits of a continuing care retirement community to people who prefer to age in the comfort of their own homes? The answer to this question created a vision - to provide for the delivery and coordination of a full continuum of services together with a financial mechanism to help pay for care in the home.