Washington's Lending Hands Adult Day Center Joins WesleyLife

Congratulations to the dedicated staff and leaders at Lending Hands Adult Day Center in Washington for joining WesleyLife. In addition to Wesley Halcyon House retirement community in Washington, Wesley includes retirement and elder service facilities in Atlantic, Des Moines, Indianola, Newton, Pella and West Des Moines. 

Lending Hands Adult Day Center was a non-profit entrepreneurial start-up 20 years ago in the basement of Faith Baptist Church in Washington. In 2005, they received a CDBG grant, and numerous private donations and grants, to build a new facility in Washington. Halcyon House has been a part of Wesley for over 50 years, and employs over 90.

Washington, Iowa – (December 2011) Lending Hands Adult Day Center, is proud to announce they have joined the WesleyLife organization. 

Effective this month, Lending Hands Adult Day Center is now a part of the WesleyLife services in the Washington area.  Lending Hands has been providing quality adult day services for the past 20 years.  Joining forces with another nonprofit such as WesleyLife will further enhance these services.  

As one of the original co-founders of Lending Hands, Bonnie Boshart is excited about the possibilities moving forward.   She states, “Standing on our own without a parent organization we helped over 600 families in twenty years.  We will now be able to exceed that in the future with the help of WesleyLife.”

For adults requiring assistance, support and involvement with others, Lending Hands Adult Day Center provides a quality, vibrant, home-like environment that sincerely embraces older adults and their individual needs.

Long time Board member Dave Stoufer explains, “This merger is another positive step in our 20 years of successfully providing Adult Day services to Washington County.”  

Lending Hands Director Susan Wellington  adds, “This merger positions Lending Hands for the future.  It will provide a support structure and the opportunity to work within an organization  focused on helping older adults age in place.”

Bryan Sanders, VP of Home and Community Based Services is extremely excited about future growth of Lending Hands, serving Washington and surrounding counties.  “Lending Hands has amazing support and provides an extremely valuable service to the community.  The leadership and caring staff of Lending Hands is truly a blessing to WesleyLife.  I have thoroughly enjoyed getting to know everyone and learning the tremendous story of Lending Hands beginnings and all the good work they do.” 

Lending Hands Adult Day Center is located at 301 Highway 1 and 92 in Washington.  For more information, contact Susan Wellington at (319) 653-2661.  For more information about WesleyLife, please visit www.wesleylife.org.

WesleyLife recently hosted a welcome dinner for Lending Hands. Pictured: (Front row) Lending Hands Board Members: Pat Dessner, Paula Brinning, Illa Earnest (Back row) Lending Hands Director, Susan Wellington; WesleyLife Board Member, John Moenck; Lending Hands Board Member, Betty Colby; Lending Hands Program Coordinator, Bonnie Boshart; WesleyLife VP of Home & Community Based Services, Bryan Sanders; WesleyLife CEO, Rob Kretzinger, and Lending Hands Board Member, Dave Stoufer