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THE HISTORY OF
ST. PAUL'S SENIOR HOMES & SERVICES

St. Paul's Manor, Villa, John A. McColl Family Health Center and the Community Care Center are owned and operated by St. Paul's Episcopal Home, Inc., a non-profit, charitable organization. In the early 1950s, the lay people of St. Paul's Episcopal Church sponsored St. Paul's Manor. Today, St. Paul's Senior Homes & Services provides care to a religiously diverse population of residents. Residency is considered for persons at least sixty-two years of age, regardless of race, color, or religious affiliation.

As early as 1953, the concept of St. Paul's Manor, a retirement community for the elderly individual of modest means, took form. A Board of Directors was formed and, with the help of St. Paul's Parish, purchased the original land for the Manor in January of 1960. The first residents of the Manor were welcomed in January of 1963.

Within the year the demand for residency in the Manor was so great that planning commenced for additional units. Building of the Manor Tower, a high-rise, 60-unit addition, began in October 1966. By November 1967 the completed Tower was fully occupied. The planning board next considered a much needed skilled nursing facility. The first resident was admitted on January 5, 1982 to St. Paul's Health Care Center.

The Assisted Living Program at the Manor, which began in 1987, was the next addition. This program was designed to "bridge the gap" for residents between modestly priced independent living at the Manor and costly skilled nursing services at the Health Care Center.

In 1991 St. Paul's purchased the Balboan Hotel (renaming it St. Paul's Villa) to fulfill an increased demand for resident services. This new facility offered an additional 160 units of senior housing. Within a year, another assisted living program was established at the Villa: the Personal Services Unit (PSU) with a potential for seventy residents.

St. Paul's has been blessed with generous donations over the years. In 1984 an auxiliary, Love Uniting Volunteers, (LUV) was founded. In 1995 the St. Paul's Retirement Homes Foundation was formed as a separate non-profit organization to raise funds for the special needs of all St. Paul's facilities. In October of 1996 John and Sharon McColl were honored at LUV's annual gala, and by action of the Board of Directors, the Health Care Center was renamed the John A. McColl Family Health Center.

For 40 years St. Paul's has proven to be the leader of innovative and affordable care for seniors in the San Diego community. By April 1997 St. Paul's had expanded again. With the increasing needs of families in our community to acquire day services for children and seniors, St. Paul's opened the first Inter-Generational Day Services program in San Diego. The child and adult day care programs are housed in the Community Care Center and the Anne Ray Memorial Building. Inter-generational Care is St. Paul's response to the needs in our society for high quality child and senior day care and to serve today's working families who need to access that care.

St. Paul's remains responsive to its original mission of meeting the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of older persons of moderate economic means by providing these facilities and services at affordable costs. The logo of St. Paul's reflects its mission: a shield of protection, a heart of love, and the cross of Christ. Rt. Rev. Brinkley C. Morton, former Bishop of the San Diego Episcopal Diocese, proclaimed, "It is for the love of Christ that these homes were built."

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