OKLAHOMA CITY – Concordia Life Care Community honored its employees with an awards banquet in March at Messiah Lutheran Church in Oklahoma City, and selected five employees out of more than 130 to recognize individually. Deanna Marler was awarded Employee of the Year, a title recognizing its recipient for excellence in hospitality, professionalism, enthusiasm and respect. Marler is a certified nursing assistant at Concordia. “I’m incredibly honored to be awarded Employee of the Year,” Marler said. “I feel blessed to …
Couple at Oklahoma City Retirement Community Recognized as LeadingAge Oklahoma’s 2016 Volunteer Residents of the Year OKLAHOMA CITY — Independent living retirement community residents Clyde and Phyllis Buchanan were recognized earlier this month as LeadingAge Oklahoma’s 2016 Volunteer Residents of the Year. The two were nominated by their friends and staff at Concordia Life Care Community, a continuing care retirement community in Oklahoma City. Together, the Buchanans spent more than 500 hours last year volunteering, and their efforts include working …
Creating the Wellness on Wheels Program at Concordia Life Care Community just made sense. A faith-based nonprofit, Concordia is a Life Care Retirement Community in northwest Oklahoma City offering independent living, assisted living and memory care. Our Concordia community is blessed with nurses who, a few years ago, expressed interest in outreach ministry. We quickly identified an unmet need in the greater Oklahoma City community where we knew our resources could make an impact and we went to work. Oklahoma’s seniors …
Two Concordia residents, Clyde and Phyllis Buchanan, shared their story on Valentine’s Day with a local ABC reporter. Clyde remembered the first time he met Phyllis in 1953 in high school — “the cute little blonde girl in a red turtleneck sweater.” Clyde and Phyllis got engaged, but called it off and married other people. Years later in the early 1980s, both Clyde and Phyllis were again single and reconnected when Phyllis saw Clyde’s name in an alumni book and …