Agency Details:

Bienvivir Senior Health Services

Our mission is to provide the frail elderly person a quality of life that ensures a home in the community, comprehensive care, dignity and choices in a nurturing environment.

Description:
Bienvivir Senior Health Services is a private non-profit organization whose main objective is to enable frail elderly people to remain independent and reside in their own homes and communities for as long as it is desired and feasible. Bienvivir provides quality comprehensive healthcare services at three facilities which include;in-house doctors, clinic, pharmacy, social workers, transportation, food service, recreation therapy, physical therapy, speech therapy, OT, home health, dietary, personal care and administration.

History:
Bienvivir was established in July of 1987. Bienvivir is a member of the National PACE Association, Program for all-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE). Pace sites are patterned after ON Lok Senior Health Services in San Francisco, California, which has been in existence for over 30 years, and was the first of its kind in the U.S. In 1986, an initiative was undertaken by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Care Financing Administration in partnership with the On Lok Senior Services and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, to identify up to ten sites throughout the U.S. that were capable of replicating On Lok. Bienvivir got its start 20 years ago, as one of those ten sites.

Contact people:

Rosalinda Felix, Volunteer Coordinator, (phone), (email) Leo Hurtado II, (phone), (email) Margie Murphy, Chief Operating Officer, (phone), (email)

Office fax number: (915) 566-2351

Address:

2300 McKinley El Paso, TX 79930 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.bienvivir.org

Directions:

When getting off I-10 take the Copia or Piedras exit and go north until you hit McKinley Street turn left go up to the stop lights and keep going straight up the mountain. This road also leads to the tramway,. . . (more)   Nearest Bus Stop: Mckinley and Alabama, 5 minutes minute walk

Last updated on November 16, 2009