Centre Care

04/11/2026

A busy weekend at Centre Care for our ongoing Eagle Scout project, Ryan worked tirelessly on his own and with a large group. Nice job Ryan, thanks for your hard work.

04/10/2026

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04/10/2026

Treasury’s Northcentral Regional Senior Program Relationship Manager, Steve, helped Pennsylvanians in Centre County find more than $129,000 in unclaimed property with Rep. Paul Takac at Centre Care Thursday afternoon!

04/08/2026

Today is our Relay for Life Basket Auction in the Chapel from 10am-3pm. Stop by and get your tickets to win one of these amazing baskets!

04/05/2026

04/02/2026

Miranda and Bella are our Speech Language Pathologists that work daily at Centre Care to provide our patients with therapy focusing helping patients who have changes in swallowing, cognition, or communication. Recently they have both been certified to provide SPEAK OUT! Therapy. They actively treat Parkinson’s patients that live long term at Centre Care or in our community. The SPEAK OUT! Therapy Program helps people with Parkinson’s and other related disorders REGAIN and RETAIN their speech and swallowing. The program, if followed properly according to the exercises set out in the SPEAK OUT! Therapy Program, can improve volume, articulation, breath support for speech, vocal quality, intonation, and facial expression. Patients and families also report reduced drooling and improved swallowing. This highly effective, research-based treatment combines education, individual SPEAK OUT! Therapy, weekly classes, daily home practice, and continuous follow-ups. Once patients enter the program, they remain in it for life. Please congratulate our four friends who have graduated from their therapy program.

03/30/2026

Happy National Doctor's Day to Dr. Dennis Shannon with Centre Geriatric Care, LLC. Centre Care and its Residents are so thankful to have you full time and overseeing/directing our medical services!

03/26/2026

In February, Ridgelines launched Telling Our Stories Together, a collaboration between State College Area High School photography students and A Poem in Our Eyes (APIOE), our program serving low-income older adults living with memory loss at Centre Care in Bellefonte.

This past fall, APIOE Teaching Artist Robyn Ryzdy visited Danielle Crowe’s advanced photography class. She gave an overview of this ekphrastic poetry program (writing in response to artworks) and spoke with students about the kinds of images that resonate with the older adults she works with. She also invited them to reflect on their assumptions and fears about dementia. Together, they explored how photographs can help begin conversations with people living with memory loss.

Students were then asked to take photos for the spring semester of APIOE. In April, several high school students will visit the APIOE classroom to work with residents and see firsthand how their photographs are used to write poems.

For Centre Care residents, this exchange strengthens their sense of connection and belonging within the broader community.

In June, we’ll share the photographs and the poems in our annual exhibit at Schlow Library.

03/23/2026

An exciting project is happening at Centre Care with project leader, Eagle Scout Ryan Hillsley from State College. This project is from a grant that the Centre Care Volunteers applied for and received. Thank you Ryan Hillsley, Eagle Scout for taking the lead on this exciting project!

03/20/2026

The Centre Care Gift Shop is selling Spring/Easter items! Stop by and see all the wonderful new merchandise.

03/19/2026

This past Valentines Day, the Bellefonte Elks Lodge #1094’s Little Elks visited Centre Care for the purpose of distributing red roses to the residence and Hershey Kisses to the staff members. Participating Little Elks included, from left, Isla Tucker, Cora Tucker, Kevin Buckley, Connor Buckley and Landyn Koch.

03/18/2026

St Patrick’s Day party! Lucky Leprechauns!
Residents tossed cheese balls at Rachael from TR to make her a leprechaun and then they played pass the leprechaun to crown the Lord of the Leprechauns, and lastly they had a gold coins toss to celebrate. A great time was had by all!