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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2016

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S E N A T E   R E S O L U T I O N

CONGRATULATING J. CHRISTIAN WOULFE ON HIS RETIREMENT AFTER MORE

THAN FORTY-ONE YEARS OF DISTINGUISHED AND DEVOTED SERVICE TO THE

SCANDINAVIAN HOME AND THE ENTIRE SENIOR CITIZEN COMMUNITY OF RHODE

ISLAND

     Introduced By: Senators Kettle, and Miller

     Date Introduced: May 18, 2016

     Referred To: Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar

     WHEREAS, The Scandinavian Home, founded in 1930, is a nonprofit living community

located in the Edgewood section of Cranston, Rhode Island. The Scandinavian Home offers a

wide range of services including assisted living services, rehabilitation and skilled nurses

services, family education programs, support groups, and a chaplaincy program that offers

spiritual, emotional and religious support to its residents and families of all faiths; and

     WHEREAS, J. Christian "Chris" Woulfe has served as the Administrator and Executive

Director of the Scandanavian Home since 1980. Under his guidance and direction, the

Scandanavian Home constructed its Assisted living Community facilities in 1991, and made

significant renovations to the Scandanavian Nursing Home. In 2013 and 2014, Mr. Woulfe

oversaw further needed renovations to the Scandanavian Rehabilitation & Skilled Nursing

facilities and the Assisted Living facilities. More importantly, under Mr. Woulfe's direction, the

Scandanavian Home has earned a well-deserved reputation for providing its residents with the

best care and quality possible while at the same time honoring and maintaining the dignity of

every patient; and

     WHEREAS, Mr. Woulfe has been a tireless and vocal advocate and proponent for the

nursing home and assisted living care community and its organizations. He was a founding

member of the Rhode Island Association of Facilities and Services for the Aging (RIAFSA), now

known as Leading Age of Rhode Island. Mr. Woulfe, through his affiliation with RIAFSA,

became involved with the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA),

a leading national organization for nonprofit long-term care, and now known as Leading Age,

where he served in their House of Delegates for four years. Mr. Woulfe also was a founding

member of CareLink, a nonprofit network of post-acute care providers, and was a founding

member and President, of the Rhode Island Nursing Home Group, a workers' compensation self-

insurance group created to combat high premiums and a shortage of carriers; now, therefore be it

     RESOLVED, That this Senate of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

hereby congratulates J. Christian Woulfe on his retirement after forty-one years of exemplary and

dedicated service to the Scandanavian Home and the entire senior citizen community of Rhode

Island; and be it further

     RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to

transmit a duly certified copy of this resolution to Mr. J. Christian Woulfe.

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