FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT:            Jennifer Clar, 760-1334

DATE:             November 19, 2007

ST. JOHN’S HOME WELCOMES NEW MEDICAL STAFF

St. John’s Home, a registered Eden Alternative home, is pleased to announce that Dr. Thomas Pingree has recently joined the medical staff.  He is a graduate of Williams College and the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.  Dr. Pingree is board-certified in Internal Medicine.   

Vicki Weinstein Finnefrock has also joined the staff as Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner.  She is a graduate of Alfred University and the University of Rochester.  She has experience in elder care and will provide counseling and psychotherapy services to the residents of St. John's. 

St. John's Home is a not-for-profit residential health care facility, providing a continuum of care for the elderly in Rochester since 1899.  Residential specialty programs include Comfort Care, Rehabilitation, and Alzheimer's/dementia care, as well as long term care, serving a total of 475 residents.  St. John's Home also provides services for people who continue to live in their own homes, including Day Break medical and social adult day service programs, and Traditions in Caring, a licensed home health care agency owned in part by St. John's.  Affiliated with St. John's Home as part of St. John's Senior Communities are St. John's Meadows and St. John's Foundation.

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