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Team members in the Lucy Corr Foundation Dental Clinic were all smiles earlier this month when they accepted a jumbo-sized, $11,057 check from Central Virginia Dental Care, PLC. The funds will convert directly into exams, fillings and dentures for seniors who might not otherwise afford them. The gift represents proceeds from the organization’s annual charity golf tournament, held in June at Independence Golf Club. The tournament supports free and charitable clinics across the [...]

Retired teacher and librarian Jane Gibson Spain moved to Lucy Corr in 2009, before the Independent Living building existed. A handful of cottages stood on the property, and Jane and her fellow residents discovered a shared problem. "We soon found out, as everyone does, that we had brought too much stuff," Jane said. "And a lot of us had brought too many books. We didn't know what to do with them." Someone suggested [...]

Independent Living residents traded Chesterfield County for the coast on Wednesday, Aug. 19, as they gathered in the Springdale Bistro for Lucy Corr's first-ever Beach Party. The 3 p.m. start time turned out to be a suggestion. Guests began arriving 45 minutes early in leis, visors and floral shirts. Inflatable palm trees and seashell-and-sand centerpieces filled the room, with a pink flamingo standing guard over a wading pool packed with ice, wine and beer. Captain [...]

Every nurse starts somewhere. Long before the charting and the clinical judgment comes a first patient: someone who needs help getting dressed, getting out of bed or getting to breakfast. Where a student learns that work shapes the kind of nurse they become. For eight weeks this summer, four first-semester nursing students from Bryant & Stratton College spent their Wednesdays at Lucy Corr, earning clinical hours alongside residents in the Health Care Center. Bryant & [...]

Ruth Boyd has lived independently her whole life. The youngest of six children, she was 5 years old when her mother passed away, and she largely raised herself. She married and raised two children in Chester. After her husband passed away nearly a decade ago, she spent five more years living on her own. That changed when Ruth turned up at her daughter's house with a black eye, having suffered a fall. Her [...]

Ask Jeremy Armstrong about the Ceca Award he received earlier this spring, and he’ll steer the conversation back to his team almost immediately. That humility is, in part, what earned Lucy Corr’s plant operations supervisor the recognition in the first place. Through its participation in the national Ceca Award program, Lucy Corr honors clinical and non-clinical team members whose everyday work reflects the organization's values of care, compassion and kindness. Jeremy’s recognition came through [...]