International Community Health Services (ICHS) secures $1.5 million in funding from King County for the Ron Chew Healthy Aging and Wellness Center located in Seattle's Beacon Hill neighborhood. The Ron Chew Healthy Aging and Wellness Center helps ICHS expand care services for older adults. The Ron Chew Healthy Aging and Wellness Center opens in Fall 2025 with wrap-around, culturally aligned care for up to 400 Medicare and Medicaid dependent Seattle-area seniors.
SEATTLE, Jan. 13, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The King County Council approved $1.5 million in funding for the Ron Chew Healthy Aging and Wellness Center from its supplemental 2024 budget. International Community Health Services (ICHS) opens the Ron Chew Healthy Aging and Wellness Center at Beacon Pacific Village located at 1229 Golf Dr. S, Seattle, WA 98144, in the Fall of 2025 to increase the number of low-income elders it serves from 100 to 400.
"The Ron Chew Healthy Aging and Wellness Center is designed to meet the rapidly growing need for comprehensive elder care in our community and serve lower-income seniors in culturally aligned ways," said ICHS CEO Kelli Nomura. "The King Council's approval of $1.5 million advances ICHS' plans for this new, state-of-the-art senior care center that quadruples our ability to provide elders with care and connection."
Older adults dependent on Medicare and Medicaid will receive wrap-around healthcare at the Ron Chew Healthy Aging and Wellness Center. Services are provided in the native language of participants with an understanding of cultural traditions. Services include medical, dental, and behavioral healthcare, physical and occupational therapies, nutrition services and meals on-site, accessible transportation, and healthy living programs designed to encourage social connection and physical activity.
The cost to develop the Ron Chew Healthy Aging and Wellness Center is $25 million. To date, ICHS has raised $14 million through private and public funding. Project funders include the federal government, State of Washington, King County, City of Seattle, Inatai Foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Sheng-Yen Lu Foundation, Ark and Winifred Chin Foundation, Arcora Foundation, Satterberg Foundation, and many generous individuals.
About ICHS With a commitment to health equity, ICHS provides culturally and linguistically appropriate health services in more than 70 languages to improve the wellbeing of King County's diverse people and communities, regardless of patients' ability to pay. Since its founding in 1973, ICHS has grown from a single storefront clinic in Seattle's Chinatown-International District with deep roots in the Asian Pacific Islander community, to a regional health care provider employing more than 7600 staff and serving over 30,000 patients at 11 clinic locations.
For more information on the Ron Chew Healthy Aging and Wellness Center capital campaign, visit https://www.ichs.com/hawc.
Media Contact
Nicole Francois, International Community Health Services, 1 2067994414, [email protected], https://www.ichs.com/hawc
SOURCE International Community Health Services
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