CANANDAIGUA – The staff and residents of Ferris Hills at West Lake recently raised a total of $1,800 for Light Hill, a the comfort care home for the terminally ill in Canandaigua.
Also located in Canandaigua, Ferris Hills is an independent living community that is part of UR Medicine Thompson Health. Its staff held a pancake breakfast – open to the community – on Feb. 14, raising $1,400 for Light Hill. Staff and residents then raised an additional $400 for the nonprofit by ordering more than three dozen of the $10 bouquets available through Light Hill’s annual bouquet sale.
Claire Watson, resident services manager at Ferris Hills, presented Light Hill Development Director Mary Kay Naioti with the proceeds from both the breakfast and the flower sales on Feb. 25.
“Having hosted speakers from Light Hill recently at Ferris Hills and having learned more about the wonderful work they do in their comfort care home for people in our community, we were delighted to find not one but two ways to support their mission. We know the proceeds from our breakfast and flower orders will go to incredibly good use,” Watson said.
Ferris Hills has a history of staff and residents teaming up for charitable causes. In recent years – through various events – they have raised thousands of dollars for the Alzheimer’s Association as well as both dementia care and palliative care at the M.M. Ewing Continuing Care Center, Thompson’s skilled-nursing facility in Canandaigua. For more information about Ferris Hills, visit www.ThompsonSeniorLiving.com.