40 Years In The Making

The Joseph L. Morse Geriatric Center opens with 120 long-term beds, named for the late Joseph Morse, a colleague of founder H. Irvin Levy who was an editor of the Funk and Wagnalls Encyclopedia.

The Resnick Pavilion opens, adding an additional 160 long-term care beds, named in honor of the philanthropic support of Pearl and Jack Resnick.

Kramer Senior Services is established to provide private, home-based services to enable seniors to “age in place” in the comfort of home. The program is named in recognition of the generosity of the late Lola and Saul Kramer.

The MorseLife Health System campus is named the Marilyn and Stanley M. Katz Seniors Campus in honor of their philanthropic support. The Tradition of the Palm Beaches opens as a 144 unit independent and assisted living residence and reaches 100% capacity.

MorseLife Health System establishes MorseLife Home Care, a Medicare skilled home health care agency, ten years after the establishment of Kramer Senior Services Agency, which provides private, home-based services to enable seniors to live on their own.

The Campaign to Transform MorseLife begins which to date has raised over $75 million, making possible the construction of a new, 120 bed short-term rehabilitation center; renovation of our nursing home; development of the memory care residence and building of a luxurious independent living residence.

MorseLife Health System launches Palm Beach PACE (Program for All Inclusive Care for the Elderly), a comprehensive care program for seniors at risk of nursing home placement. The PACE program provides transportation, medical and nursing care, rehabilitation services, adult day care, prescriptions, and home care, to enable seniors to remain at home. It is the only program of MorseLife funded by Medicaid and Medicare.

MorseLife Health System opens Sondra and David S. Mack Pavilion for Short Term Rehabilitation Center on its 37-acre campus, a model of rehabilitation excellence, meeting increased demand among patients with cardiological, neurological, and orthopedic illnesses and injuries. The Pavilion was named in honor of the major philanthropic support of Sondra and David S. Mack.

MorseLife Health System opens Memory Care Assisted Living residence for seniors with memory impairment. This residence includes a 52-apartment assisted living residence and 30 long-term care beds on a separate floor. With a host of services and amenities, this residence is a model for caring for seniors with moderate to advanced memory impairment.

MorseLife Health System opens its second site for the Palm Beach PACE (Program of All Inclusive Care for the Elderly) at Temple Sinai in Delray Beach, Florida. Palm Beach PACE is the fastest growing program of its type in the State of Florida.

MorseLife Health System welcomes the first residents of the extraordinary Stephen A. Levin Palace at MorseLife, the most luxurious senior residence in all of Florida on September 1. The Levin Palace was named in honor of the major gift of MorseLife Chairman Stephen A. Levin.

MorseLife Memory Care Assisted Living residence renamed the Roni and Gerry Goldsmith Pavilion in recognition of the couple’s signature gift toward this program. This gift was also made in honor of Mrs. Goldsmith’s family members impacted by Alzheimer’s disease. Palm Beach PACE (Program for All Inclusive Care for the Elderly) opened its third site at Temple Beth Tikvah in Greenacres, Florida.

MorseLife Teaching Hospice Program and Palliative Care Services opened.  Palm Beach Hospice & Palliative Care’s mission is to minimize the patients’ suffering, enhance their comfort and create an environment where they can live with dignity. MorseLife also purchased 10-acres of land to the north of our campus, which now makes 52-acres in total.

We faced the COVID-19 Pandemic and worked to keep our residents and staff safe from this disease. The protocols that the MorseLife Medical Team created have been emulated by other organizations throughout the country.

We launched the NOW for Holocaust Survivors Initiative, caring for thousands of indigent Holocaust Survivors and their families in Palm Beach County by providing vital services such as home care, meals-on-wheels, transportation, and more.

We renovated the Resnick building to provide affordable assisted living on our campus to keep in line with our mission to serve all seniors with dignity.

We started the Parkinson’s Therapy program at the Sondra and David S. Mack Rehabilitation Pavilion to offer both inpatient and outpatient services as the only provider of Parkinson’s therapies in South Florida.

We created the Holocaust Learning Experience to provide impactful learning opportunities through lessons learned from the Holocaust that will challenge students engaged in the curriculum to become upstanders in society who advocate for diversity, inclusion, equity, and human rights. We are dedicated to using the lessons of the Holocaust in fulfilling the moral imperative to Keep the PROMISE to NEVER FORGET. We will soon become the sole provider of Holocaust education in Florida’s 74 public school districts.

We are proud to announce that we were certified by Activated Insights as a Great Place to Work in May 2022. This recognition comes from employee survey results that deem their employee with this designation.

We completed construction on the 4th PACE site on the MorseLife campus. This 24,000 square feet building has 16,000 square feet of programmable space for Program of All-Inclusive for the Elderly (PACE) participants and 6,000 square feet for the Hospice administration and operations.

We received national recognition by Fortune Magazine as one of the country’s best workplaces in the Aging Services.

US News and World Report designated MorseLife as a Best Senior Living.