Ecumen Meadows

10/21/2026

What does it mean to be there for someone during life’s most difficult moments?

For Michael Hedges, Ecumen spiritual counselor, it means listening without judgment, helping families find peace and offering comfort when it’s needed most. Sometimes, it’s as simple as sharing a cup of coffee with someone who is grieving.

This Spiritual Care Week (October 18–24), we celebrate Michael and all spiritual counselors who make a meaningful difference for patients and their families.

💚 Read Michael’s story to learn how spiritual care brings comfort and peace when it matters most.

SHOREVIEW, MN (October 21, 2026) — The Impact of Spiritual Care: Helping People Find Peace and Purpose | For Michael Hedges, spiritual care is about meeting people where they are, helping families find peace, and making sure no one faces life’s most difficult moments alone. During Spiritual Care...

10/20/2026

We're proud to announce a new partnership between Ecumen and the University of Minnesota School of Nursing.

Together, we've established a nursing Collaboratory focused on advancing aging services, supporting nursing education, and developing innovative solutions that improve the lives of older adults.

This partnership brings academic research and real-world care experience together to help prepare future nursing professionals while continuing to enhance the quality of care and services across Ecumen communities.

Thank you to the team members, residents, board members, and University of Minnesota collaborators who helped make this vision a reality. We look forward to what we'll accomplish together as we continue supporting people as they age.

Read more:

SHOREVIEW, MN (October 20, 2026) — Ecumen, University of Minnesota Establish Nursing Collaboratory | Ecumen and the University of Minnesota School of Nursing announced the creation of a formal academic-practice partnership, or collaboratory, to generate, disseminate, and apply knowledge for the im...

10/19/2026

This Spiritual Care Week, we celebrate the team members who support the people we serve during moments of joy, uncertainty, and loss. 💚

Our spiritual counselors listen and comfort people of all backgrounds to help them navigate life’s transitions. Their work reminds us that caring for the whole person means caring for the heart and spirit, too. Thank you for the wisdom and compassion of our spiritual care team! 💚

Help us celebrate our spiritual care team!
- Share a story or a few kind words about a spiritual counselor who has made a difference in your life.
- Make a gift in honor of a team member or loved one as a meaningful way to recognize someone special: https://ecumen.org/give-now/.

10/14/2026

🎃 The Great Candy Corn Debate is officially settled! 🌽

Candy Corn - Yuck or Yum? That’s the question we asked for this week's poll, and the results are in! Team Yum won with 17 votes, and Team Yuck trailed behind with only 9 votes.

Press play on our corny" video below to see how Jill, Zuby, Ginny, Gail, Marilyn, Roger, and Paul feel about Halloween's most controversial treat! And let us know, when someone mentions Candy Corn, do you think Yuck or Yum?

10/13/2026

Another full house at Community Coffee this morning! Every Tuesday morning from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM, we serve up fresh, hot coffee alongside a delicious rotation of cinnamon rolls, muffins, and pastries. More importantly, we share a lot of great conversation, storytelling, and laughs!

Whether you want to catch up with old friends or meet some new ones, we would love to have you. Please join us anytime. You will be glad you did!

10/09/2026

Check out our "gnome-made" masterpieces! We had a wonderful time painting and decorating these festive autumn gnomes. It's always so fun to see how everyone brings their own unique style to craft day!

10/08/2026

We have some exciting news to share!

Ecumen Meadows has officially won the 2026 Bronze Commitment to Quality Award. This national honor from the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL) recognizes our team's hard work, dedication, and commitment to providing the absolute best care for our amazing residents.

We are incredibly proud of our team and will work hard to continue this momentum toward the silver level!

10/07/2026

The results are of this week's poll are in! We posed the question "What's your favorite season?" and fall won by a landslide!

Here is how the votes stacked up:
🍁 Fall: 19 votes
☀️ Summer: 7 votes
🌱 Spring: 4 votes
❄️ Winter: 4 votes

Want to see why? Check out our "man on the street" interviews to see how Erika, Sandi, Dr. Michelle, Ruth, Chelsea, Mel, and Denny voted! And please tell us, which season is YOUR favorite?

10/06/2026

Thank you to Scott Rosenberg, the City of Worthington Tree Forester, for coming out to speak at our Community Coffee event! Scott put together a really fantastic and informative presentation on the Emerald Ash Borer. He even brought along bark samples, larvae, and bugs so we could see the damage firsthand.

Scott shared some really interesting facts about how this pest is impacting our town. For instance, because the lake froze safely this past winter, city crews were able to get out onto the ice and completely clear all the infested ash trees along the shorelines of Lake Okabena and Sunset Bay. He also shared that typically within two years of showing damage, the trees start to fall over, which is a big damage risk to nearby structures as well as injuries or even death to people and animals, if they happen to be close by when the tree falls.

It is a massive undertaking. Worthington has lost over 1,500 Ash trees in our public land and parks alone! Before the infestation, the city managed about 7,500 trees, but because of the pest and an aggressive 10-year removal plan, that number is now down to around 6,000.

Scott explained that our city trees used to be about one-third Ash and one-third Maple. Having so many Maple trees create a big risk if another species-specific bug comes along, so the city has stopped planting Maple trees on boulevards and set a strict 10% limit on any single tree species to make sure our city trees stay diverse and healthy.

We really appreciate Scott taking the time to educate us, and we're so grateful for the hard work he and his team are doing to tackle this problem and replant new trees to keep Worthington beautiful!

10/05/2026

Last week's gloomy weather couldn't stop us from having fun during our monthly watercolor class! We brightened up the day by painting the happiest yellow sunflowers, and we even snacked on treats from a super cute sunflower bouquet while our masterpieces dried.