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HANCI in Niagara Falls                                              The Dale Association in Lockport

Jeff Paterson, APR                                                      Maureen Wendt

Director of Communication and Advancement         Director of Marketing and Development

Office:  (716) 285-8224, x234                                      Office: (716) 438-2414

Cell:     (716) 990-6178                                                Email:  maureen.wendt@daleassociation.com

Email:  paterson@hanci.com                                      

Grigg-Lewis Foundation awards $300,000 to Complete Senior Care

LOCKPORT, N.Y., June 26, 2007 – The Grigg-Lewis Foundation, a private charitable foundation based in Lockport, has awarded a $300,000 startup grant to Complete Senior Care, a long-term care program that will allow nursing home-eligible Niagara County residents to remain living at home. The grant will help the two nonprofit parent agencies, the Health Association of Niagara County Inc. and the Dale Association, to prepare for Complete Senior Care’s 2008 launch.

Complete Senior Care will provide comprehensive health services – including adult day services, home care, primary care, hospital care, prescriptions, therapy, specialty care, social work and spiritual care – to people age 55 and older who are nursing home-eligible but want to remain at home. Later this year, HANCI’s building at 1302 Main St. will be renovated into a clinic and day center, with a second site to open in Lockport in 2010. Eventually the program will serve up to 300 people and will create as many as 100 jobs. Information is available from HANCI at 285-8224 or the Dale Association at 438-2414.

Founded in 1968, the Grigg-Lewis Foundation was established through annual contributions from Henrietta G. Lewis, a surviving member of the Grigg family, which operated grain mills in Lockport and Niagara Falls. Governed by a five-member board of directors, the Foundation allocates more than $2 million in charitable grants each year.

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