Leadership

Board of Directors

Salem Home is governed by a board of 13 Mennonite Churches of Southern Manitoba

The guidance and support of the Governing Board is crucial to Salem Home's continued success.  It is also the signature of the churches' commitment to providing care to the elders in their community. The corporation consists of these congregations: 

• Bethel Bergthaler Mennonite Church - Winkler
• Blumenort Mennonite Church - Gretna
• Emmanuel Mennonite Church - Winkler
• Grace Mennonite Church - Winkler
• Mennonite Brethren Church - Winkler
• Old Colony Mennonite Church - Winkler
• Plum Coulee Bergthaler Mennonite Church - Plum Coulee
• Reinland Mennonite Church - Winkler
• Sommerfeld Mennonite Church - Winkler
• Winkler Bergthaler Mennonite Church - Winkler
• Winkler Evangelical Mission Mennonite Church - Winkler
• Winkler Mennonite Church - Winkler
• Zion Mennonite Church- Schanzenfeld

Each congregation is represented on the board by an appointed member for a total of 18 board members.  The number of board members is based on the formulas outlined in the corporation's By-Laws.  Congregations send delegates to the Annual General Meeting held every June where the board and administration report back to the churches and highlight issues that will be coming in the future.

The board uses a model of Governance that incorporates faith principles, business principles, and relationship principles.  As a Christ-centred care provider affiliated with the Mennonite faith, policies are developed and care and services are provided in a manner that is consistent with, and expressive of, Mennonite values and ethics.

CORPORATE VALUES

The Governing Board has defined the values below which they believe reflect Salem Home as a whole:

Compassion

• Providing a caring, home-like environment for the elderly of our community.
• Decision-making includes all levels of the organization.
• Interactions with each resident are considerate and respectful.
• Each resident's needs are attended to the best of our ability.
• Decisions made are respectful of the residents and staff.
• Providing a framework so decisions made are for the betterment of resident care and integrity of corporation.

Dignity

• Ensuring residents are considered in the decision making process.
• Respecting confidentiality at all levels of the organization.
• Ensuring processes and resources are in place so the resident can be cared for in a respectful and positive manner.
• Ensuring policies are in place that use the Golden Rule as its base.

Excellence

• Ensuring the organization is a learning organization - staff receive the education and tools necessary to provide care with dignity and respect.
• Policies and processes are in place to ensure resident safety.
• Policies and processes are in place to ensure staff safety.
• Ensuring the organization functions as a team in a seamless approach.
• The expectations of residents living in our facility are met or exceeded.

Faith

• The organization is purposefully Christ-centred in all its interactions with stakeholders.
• Decision making throughout the organization is biblically based.
• Policies for the organization incorporate Anabaptist principles.
• The Governing Board and Leadership Group practice servant leadership.

Salem Home Inc. Governing Board has expressed its commitment to:

• Continuing its ministry emphasizing a relationship-centred approach to care serving with compassion and the love of Christ.
• Understanding that all persons have value and purpose regardless of their disease process.
• Being at the leading edge of the delivery of care using innovation and creativity.
• Working towards providing affordable alternate care models in the community. 

Strategic goals identified by the Governing Board:

Goal One:  Be a Home of Choice

Salem Home provides relationship-centred care with compassion, dignity, excellence, faith, and safety in a physical space that reflects a home-like environment so each resident will have a positive "lived" experience to the best of our ability.

Goal Two:  Be an Employer of Choice

Salem Home is a preferred choice of employment providing a relationship-centred work environment that supports accountability, a respectful workplace, recognition and appreciation for employees.

Goal Three:  Operational Excellence and Resident Safety

Salem Home uses a continuous improvement process that focuses on excellence, resident safety, organizational risk management and customer service.

Goal Four:  Capital

Salem Home continues to improve its capacity to provide specialties of care in a physical environment with state of the art equipment throughout the facility to ensure residents' needs are met.

Leadership Team

We are dedicated to creating a positive experience for residents, their families, and staff alike.

 Kelly Ens (Resource Development), Marge Friesen-Berft (Director of Support Services), Sherry Janzen (CEO), Marilyn Nelson (Director of Resident Care Services), Jake Wiebe (Finance Officer), and Jake Derksen (Director of Plant Operations), are the senior Leadership Team charged with ensuring Salem Home works well together.
 

As a Leadership Team, we strive to make Salem Home a place where

• residents continue to live their lives
• employees can work in a respectful, fair, and safe environment
• residents are cared for using leading edge technology
• relationships are important regardless of the role each one has within the facility
• faith permeates decision making 

It is important to each one of us that regardless of your interaction with someone from Salem Home, you have a positive experience.   Thank you for finding out about us - we are passionate about Salem Home - its mission, its residents, and creating the best organization.