<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=0M2tcH_1AWejHLe00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0M2tcH_1AWejHLe00" width="1280" height="914" ><figcaption>Residents Ernie and Marti Simmons enjoy their afternoon in the community area of Eventide’s Sanders Flats. (Photos/Eventide)</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=356AES_1AWejHLe00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=356AES_1AWejHLe00" width="720" height="1008" ><figcaption>Carrie Carney | VP, Eventide</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=41iAeu_1AWejHLe00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=41iAeu_1AWejHLe00" width="1440" height="1029" ><figcaption>Eventide’s assisted living facility, The Linden, welcomed its first residents in 2021. (Photos/Eventide.)</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=1YRIaZ_1AWejHLe00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=1YRIaZ_1AWejHLe00" width="1440" height="1029" ><figcaption>Three residents of Sanders Flats take in a movie — complete with popcorn — in the independent living facility’s in-house theater.</figcaption></figure>Nancy Edmonds HansonEventide has been a staple of senior living for 75 years … no matter what you call it.Back in 1951, its progenitor, the Lutheran Home of the Moorhead Circuit, opened its doors on the south side of the city. Four years later, its name was changed for the first time to Eventide Lutheran Home, filling a growing need for care for aging adults.New facilities and services prompted a series of expansions carrying the Eventide brand. The Living Center opened in 1986 through federal HUD financing, offering independent living apartments next door to the original nursing home. Another building added Catered Living apartments in 1992. Two years later, the historic Fairmont Creamery downtown was remodeled to add more senior living units; it was operated under the Eventide Senior Living banner for almost 20 years.New names appeared on the original Eighth Street campus – Linden Tree Circle in 2000, The Linden in 2020 and Camtown Square memory care apartments the next year. The independent senior living homes at Sanders Flats debuted in 2024. Other senior living facilities were added in West Fargo, Fargo, Jamestown and Devils Lake. Eventide partnered with Bethany Retirement Living and the Alexandria-based organization now known as Vivie to form Ethos, a home health care and hospice partnership.Finally, in late 2024, the organization stepped out of its home territory in Minnesota and North Dakota. It affiliated with Tabitha Senior Care of Nebraska, with senior living facilities and services in Lincoln, Crete and Grand Island – a fixture in its area since the late 19th century. Coming together with the large, well-respected Nebraska nonprofit has brought the total staff to 2,000, who care for some 2,300 residents. Only about 400 of those elder men and women live here in Moorhead, with the rest spread across eastern North Dakota, including Fargo and West Fargo, and the eastern half of Nebraska.“It was time to update our brand as a way to bring all of our communities and service lines together,” says Carrie Carney, the corporation’s vice president of marketing. And so the familiar Moorhead mainstay dropped “Senior Living Communities” from its name.Today the brand stands simply as Eventide – still the same as the venerable organization four generations have come to know, and yet far more dynamic. Its philosophy: Joy doesn’t have an age limit.Carney says Eventide’s steady growth, as well as the broad range of services added to its original nursing-home care, reflects major changes in attitudes and understanding of senior living. “We’ve grown so much since I started working here,” the 10-year veteran reflects. “The growth has been exciting. Our mission is to meet people where they’re at – to provide the settings and the services they want at this point in their lives, and have additional help available as they need it.”Many people who have little experience with senior living, she says, still think of the nursing homes of decades long past. That image of nursing care for people enfeebled by age and illness, though, bears little resemblance to the range of living options available today.Eventide offers many choices for those seeking options for their senior years. Some of its facilities, like the new Sanders Flats on Eighth Street South, are for active seniors looking for independent living in a 55+ community. Residents of its 46 units can socialize in spacious community areas, enjoy movies or watch sports in the in-house theater, work out in the wellness center and park in an underground garage. Meals are available across the street in The Linden, connected to Sanders Flats by an enclosed skyway.Across 16th Avenue, The Linden’s assisted-living apartments are a step up in convenience. Residents can enjoy whatever level of services can make life easier and more comfortable, from weekly housekeeping and laundry plus chef-prepared meals to health support services to meet individual needs. Eventide University brings intriguing programs to the community room; social activities abound.Eventide’s original campus also includes memory care and long-term care facilities.Senior living facilities like Eventide have been merging, Carney says, because it has become increasingly difficult to operate independently. She cites three challenges:Financial pressure and survival, rising labor costs, labor shortages and regulatory requirements.More efficiency that comes with size, along with sharing services, bulk purchasing and centralized management.Proactive mergers to enter new markets, service lines and specialties like home care and hospice.Eventide’s management offices remain in the Block E building at 801 Eighth St. S. There, Carney and her colleagues oversee a nonprofit corporation that has far exceeded its original vision of 75 years ago.“I don’t feel that growth has really changed our organization,” the marketing officer reflects. “Each campus has its own personality. They are who they are. There are just more of them now.“It still feels like a family, and our family has grown.”</div></body>

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Eventide has been a staple of senior living for 75 years … no matter what you call it. Back in 1951, its progenitor, the Lutheran Home of the Moorhead Circuit, opened its doors on the south side of the city. Four years later, its name was changed for the first time to Eventide Lutheran Home, filling a growing need for care for aging adults.

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Eventide has been a staple of senior living for 75 years … no matter what you call it. Back in 1951, its progenitor, the Lutheran Home of the Moorhead Circ

Senior Living Options Evolve as Eventide Grows

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