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Ohio Commits $10M
to Rehab, Operation of LifeCare Center’s ‘C-Wing’
East Portion of Original ’67 Schmitz Building
to Offer ‘Transitional’ Care
Ohio’s Moose will fund the renovation of the “C-Wing.” of the original 1967 Paul P. Schmitz Health Center Building.
> A contingent of Moose men and women from Ohio (above) were proudly on hand Apr. 4 for ceremonies kicking off renovation of the 30,000-sq.-ft. “C-Wing” of the original 1967 Paul P. Schmitz Health Center--left alone during the 2000-02 construction of the $16 million LifeCare Center. The “C-Wing” work will create flexible “transitional living” suites for up to 44 Moosehaven seniors who aren’t quite capable of fully independent living, but who don’t yet need the assisted-living and nursing-care aspects of the LifeCare Center. Each suite will be equipped with private bath. Construction costs are estimated at $4 million. But the total Ohio Moose commitment of $10 million will also will cover the facility’s ongoing maintenance, and selected operating expenses throughout the Moosehaven campus.
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Please click on any photograph below to view a larger image.
Facilities Manager Steve Hillyard reviews “C-Wing” plans.
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Father-Son Continuity in the Doctor’s Office
After 41 Years, Dr. Hinson Stephens Has Retired as Medical Director--Succeeded by Dr. Mike Stephens!
> The calm and steady hand of a Dr. Stephens has served continually as Medical Director of Moosehaven for more than 41 years--and until last year, it was the same Dr. Stephens!
Hinson Stephens, MD, a family practitioner from Orange Park, FL, began serving as Moosehaven’s chief physician in 1964, when he was 33 and just four years out of the University of Miami Medical School.
Four decades later, deciding late last year to dial back his workload at age 73, Dr. Stephens stepped aside at Moosehaven--in favor of Mike Stephens, MD, the senior doctor’s son, who has served as his father’s professional colleague both at Moosehaven and in private practice since 1994.
The senior Stephens, whose first office was right across Park Avenue from Moosehaven’s front gate, was approached in ’64 by then-Superintendent Charles McCall, who was dealing with an elderly physician who “didn’t want to quit.” McCall asked Stephens to follow the elder man around with longtime chief nurse Dorothy Davis, “sort of make a second round to make sure he didn’t make any mistakes.” Dr. Stephens once formally installed as Medical Director (though “we never had a contract,” he added) was soon involved in consultation on plans for the “new” Paul P. Schmitz Health Center in 1966-67. More than 30 years and thousands of Moosehaven patients later, he was again consulted on plans for the sprawling LifeCare Center, completed in 2002. (In between, he signed more than 160 Moose members and earned the Pilgrim Degree of Merit in 1977.)
Dr. Mike Stephens, now 44, was just three when his dad began at Moosehaven. After growing up in Orange Park, he graduated from Florida State University and ultimately received his MD from the University of Miami in 1992. After serving a residency at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Jacksonville, he joined his father’s family practice in ’94.
The senior Dr. Stephens continues his practice in his Kingsley Avenue office, but it is Dr. Mike Stephens who now directs Moosehaven’s medical operation--conducting a three-day-a-week clinic and making rounds throughout the LifeCare complex. |
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Dr. Hinson Stephens
(right foreground), who became Moosehaven’s medical director in 1964, was succeeded in that post late last year by his son, Dr. Mike Stephens. The two are pictured in an exam room in Moosehaven’s LifeCare Center. |
Wrapping Up Storm Clean-up
Moosehaven Facilities Manager Steve Hillyard surveys one of the more serious breaches in the surface of the campus’s 400-ft. fishing pier, twisted, cracked and repeatedly banged into during Hurricane Jeanne.
Campus damage from last summer’s hurricanes and an earlier tornado was largely cleaned up as of an early-March visit to Moosehaven. Thanks to all of the generous fraternalists who as of deadline have contributed a total of $107,185 toward the effort.
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This palmetto remained slumped into the eroded St. Johns River shoreline on March 2.
Repairs and painting underway at the water tower.
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Meet Some of the Community’s Newest Citizens
Charles & Florence Wildsmith
arrived Sept. 9, 2004
Sponsored by Danville, PA
Lodge 1133
Harold Hamilton
arrived Nov. 10, 2004
Sponsored by Tuscola, IL
Lodge 729
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Eleanor Rhible
arrived Oct. 7, 2004
Sponsored by Largo, FL
Chapter 1697
H. Jordan Bean
arrived Nov. 16, 2004
Sponsored by General Assembly
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May/June/July 2005
