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Effective May 1, 1999, the Village acquired the Barr Home Health Agency located in North Kansas City and Nursing 2000 in Leavenworth, Kansas in early 2000. These acquisitions allow JKV the opportunity to expand the John Knox Village Home Health Agency services into the greater Kansas City metropolitan area, including the state of Kansas.
In July 1999, the Board approved a $1.9 million project that included the modernization and beautification of the Joy Place area by creating larger, more up-to-date units, which are more in demand by current retirees
Although the Village had been refurbishing and renovating independent living units to make them more salable for some time, during 1997-1998, the Rose Court Villa project consisting of 16 units was completed.
A strategic planning retreat was held in September 1996 where the board made recommendations for future strategic planning for the Village. The Strategic Plan and action steps were ultimately approved in January 1997. It is continually reviewed and revised, as appropriate.
A second Strategic Plan was approved in October 1994 to be accomplished over a five-year period. The Board authorized the development of a campus master plan to identify and recommend solutions to major land use issues at the Village. Initial emphasis is directed to the development of 16 Chipman Road independent living units, creation of a main entrance at Jacob Drive, and an attractive perimeter treatment along Chipman and Murray Roads.
Although the Village had been refurbishing and renovating independent living units to make them more salable for some time, the first actual construction of new independent living units began in 1993 with the Hope Lane Project, consisting of two triplexes with basements and garages.
The Russell C. Flake Child Development Center (The Children’s Village), a child day care center, was established at the Village in 1992 through funds donated by a former resident. Effective May 31, 1998, John Knox Village formally took over the management of the center. In March 2002, the child day care center received accreditation from the National Association for the Education of Young Children.
Valley View, the Village’s first residential care facility of 60 beds, opened in 1991. An additional 30 beds were added in 1992. In July 1998, fourteen additional units were converted on the first floor of Astoria, making a total of 105 beds in this facility. Then again, in February 2002, 14 apartments were added on the second floor of Astoria, increasing the units to 119.
The Village’s first long-range, strategic-planning process, Vision 2000, was launched in 1991, which included input from selected community leaders, board members, residents and staff.
The 420-bed Village Care Center was opened in 1988, with an additional ten beds licensed in 1991, making a total of 430 beds. Private funds were raised to add an Alzheimer’s Unit. The Care Center was the first new construction at the Village since the original buildings were built.
The John Knox Village Foundation was established in 1983 to allow residents and friends to make tax-deductible contributions to further the ideals of John Knox Village and its service to the older adults of society. The Foundation annually provides between $200,000 and $500,000 for building renovation, financial assistance for residents, and other program support.
The initial construction at John Knox Village, a 420-acre retirement community in Lee’s Summit, Missouri, took place from 1969 through 1978, which included residential units, the Pavilion, and the original Village Care Center. (That VCC has since been converted to an assisted living facility and a new VCC was built in 1988.) The Village was incorporated in Missouri in 1974.
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