Artman Lutheran Home has been a leader in compassionate care for nearly a century. Located in Ambler, PA, the elegant Victorian facility offers assisted living, skilled nursing, rehabilitation and hospice care in private and semi-private rooms, studios and deluxe suites.

Liberty at Home provides Medicare-certified, home health services as well as private duty and support services to seniors living in their own home. Its licensed professionals include registered nurses, physical, occupational and speech therapists and certified nursing assistants. Liberty at Home's private duty and support services offer help with cooking, cleaning, transportation, home maintenance and personal care needs.

Lutheran Children and Family Service provides a broad scope of services to a diverse clientele. It offers hope, opportunity and support to vulnerable children and families including foster care, group care, adoption, in-home services, after-school programs, parenting education, immigrant services and resettlement of refugees. By strengthening families and providing life-changing programs, Lutheran Children and Family Service builds stronger, caring communities by connecting people and creating change throughout Southeastern Pennsylvania.

Mary J. Drexel Home has provided assisted living, nursing care and short-term rehabilitation to residents of Philadelphia's Main Line community for more than a century. In mid-2008, the decision was make to temporarily suspend resident activities at the Drexel facility to allow for renovations which will feature resident-centered accommodations and a designated area for dementia care.

Paul’s Run Retirement Community offers older adults the best value for living accommodations in Northeast Philadelphia. A Continuous Care Retirement Community (CCRC), residents can be assured that the appropriate care is always available from independent and assisted living to nursing, rehabilitation, in-home and hospice care. At Paul's Run Retirement Community, residents choose a lifestyle that sustains independence with personalized assistance.

The Becoming Center at Artman offers personalized wellness services and programs for adults. It features a fully equipped exercise room, heated pool and treatment rooms for alternative therapies and massage. Land and water exercise classes, yoga and Pilates are just some of the special offerings members enjoy.

Since 2004, this ten session training program has been providing staff with a significant educational experience centering around the organizations most valued behaviors.

Prompted by Liberty’s desire to provide a higher level of inspired care, each monthly, 8 hour segment addresses the organizations core competencies – caring and compassion, communication and listening, financial management, customer service, outcome orientation, leadership, job skills, integrity and trust. The training groups cross the organizations, giving participants the opportunity to learn with and from their colleagues.

As part of the overall effort to meet the Liberty World Class Objectives, the Core Competency Training encourages staff engagement, organizational alignment and the exceeding of our customer expectations. Liberty’s internal and external customers report significant increases in staff retention and more improved employee engagement.  Training modules provide life affirming experiences for participants as well as segments devoted to management topics such as time management, performance appraisals and finance.

Core Competency Training brings the organization's mission, vision and values out of the standard organizational culture and translates them to the ways best to model these critical and valued behaviors. This training has been utilized by the American Association of Homes and Services of the Aging and the Pennsylvania Association of Non-Profit Homes for the Aging.

Liberty has provided Core Competency training and Leadership Development Training throughout the country. To learn more about this innovative training, please click here.

Liberty Lutheran Management Consultants is a management consulting service for non-profit organizations. This consulting service has successfully worked locally and nationally to bring training and management strategies to other non-profit organizations who wish to achieve world class performance.

Christopher Ridenhour is the Director of Core Competency Training at Liberty and is available for consulting and public speaking engagements.  Characterized by a highly interactive and participatory style, Christopher Ridenhour provokes both pre-conference and general session audiences to consider how interpersonal relationships impact our Customer Service and/or Cultural Change initiatives. Science, principles of Organizational Development, and lots of observational humor are used to demonstrate human motivations and behaviors in our Care Facilities. Participants walk away with strategies and techniques that encourage engagement, accountability, and passion from both the front line staff as well as the facility's leadership team. Among his areas of expertise, Christopher counts Change Management, Teambuilding, Diversity Education, Career Rejuvenation, and Staff Competency Development.