Ingleside Homes, Inc.

1) Ingleside currently operates a HUD Section 236, Ingleside Retirement Apartments, which was the recipient of the Enterprise/MetLife National Award for Excellence in Affordable Housing in 2011. The 15-story high-rise is located at 1005 N. Franklin Street and is home to 208 seniors, with an average age of 86! It is the only HUD 236 in the tri-state area, with over 40 health and supportive social services for low-income seniors to help them remain independent longer. The retirement apartments offer an extensive range of supportive services including the nursing care, computer training, free email, free cable, free long-distance telephones, three meals per day, transportation, prescription assistance, exercise therapy, targeted support groups, free flu shots annually, onsite lab and blood work, onsite physical therapy, exercise groups, crafts, bingo, Wii Bowling, arts, cultural and recreational activities and more. Subsidized transportation, housekeeping, and meal programs are key strengths that will make this program one of the best models in HUD's portfolio. IRA provided 71,900 days of shelter during 2019. IRA dining staff served 370 meals per day, for a total of 198,505 meals! The average cost of each meal was $3.00. Residents enjoy a variety of menu choices; including a choice of four entrees each evening to from. Maintenance completed over 2,300 work orders for residents. Ingleside's resident services coordinators provided for a total of 6596 unique, direct, resident social services.  Both averaged 14 resident services per day!  In addition to personal appointments, both resident services coordinators participated in 96 activity programs and 77 community outreach programs.  

 

(2) In October 2006, Ingleside opened Ingleside Assisted Living located at 1605 N. Broom Street, one of the first HUD Assisted Living Conversion Grant funded projects. The funds converted an under-utilized commercial space located at 1605 North Broom Street into 42 units of affordable assisted living, one of the first in the region. The project took less than two years from application of funding to completion. Now, up to 60 medically qualified seniors, regardless of income can afford assisted living in Delaware. This facility provided 17,285 days of care in 2019.  Every senior who remains independent or in assisted living; and does not enter a nursing home saves the Medicaid budget $76,000/year.[i]  

 

(3) Ingleside Senior Services (ISS) Ingleside Senior Services (ISS) is an award-winning mobile outreach service which provided free referrals and resources to the elderly. This program has trained over 400 volunteers in Delaware to recognize signs of abuse and neglect in older adults. Volunteers include postal workers, utility workers, meter readers, church groups, and corporate members who identify isolated seniors in need, and refer them to Ingleside's case managers for help. Case managers not only link seniors with services, but follow up with the client until all of their needs are met. ISS partners with the City of Wilmington, and works with the Department of Licensing and Inspection to place seniors whose homes have been condemned, or who have been victims of abuse, into new homes. The City of Wilmington awarded this program $100,000 in 2019.

 

(4) Ingleside provides a unique home health agency to low-income seniors. Ingleside offers a unique home health agency to low-income seniors. The services are kept affordable by not requiring a minimum number of service hours to obtain services, which is the "for-profit" model used in the region. Low-income seniors can get med management, assistance bathing, dressing, and eating, and remain in section 202, instead of being institutionalized. This plan utilizes the State Medicaid Waiver program, as well as private sources of funding. This program provided 6,087 hours of service by certified nursing assistants and nursing aides to elderly clients in the areas of personal care, companionship, and housekeeping, and in addition, this program supplied 200 units of monthly medicine and 2593 units of laundry service. These services are provided free for those who cannot afford them and subsidized through the benevolence program to assist the residents in maintaining their dignity.

 

(5) The Down's Cultural Center, located in IRA's a 200 seat auditorium which has provided free, senior focused programming since 1991 to over 8,000 low-income seniors and their families each year. The program include daily events, including humanities forums, macular degeneration education, diabetes education, newly released and classic movies on a room sized theatre screen with surround sound, local area school performances, intergenerational programs, musicals, dance ensembles, opera, jazz ensembles, choirs, religious services, political debates, legislative updates from the Delaware delegation, medical alerts, and more.

 

(6) H. Fletcher Brown Apartments – 35 new units of HUD 202 affordable housing opened in 2020. The program is funding through public/private funding, and will utilize LIHTC’s as well some level of private funding. 

 

 

[i] The Kaiser Family Foundation. Statehealthfacts.org