We are beginning a Capital Campaign for a multi-phased building and improvement project here at the Marian Home and Village. It is our largest undertaking in more than 60 years of history and will enable us to serve so many more people with a greater scope of services, all at the professional level of care the community has come to expect from us.

But before we delve into the details, I want to tell you more about the ‘why’ behind this incredible project. It’s very simple: we are doing it for the families — those families we have served in the past, the ones under our care now, and the families we hope to serve in the future.

Let me tell you about the people we see here every day in our long-term care facility and independent living apartments. They build strength at our onsite physical therapy facility, chat with family at the welcoming fireplace, play Bingo in Halvorson Hall, and people of many faiths worship together at our Chapel several times each week.

There is a missing link, an important level of service we have not offered in the past. In the first phase of the Growing for Every Stage of Life project, the Marian Home and Village will open its first-ever Assisted Living facility within walking distance of both our current campus and Holy Trinity Catholic Church at the former Villa Care site. We hope to open 12, sparkling new, affordable, assisted living units in this location as early as 2025.