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DEC.
14, 2001 | Chancellor I. Dodd Wilson, M.D., of the
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS)
praised Springdale philanthropist Lawrence H.
Schmieding this week for his vision and generosity in
creating a center for geriatric care and health care
education.
Chancellor Wilson called on Mr. Schmieding this week
to thank him for his gift of $13.5 million to build
the Schmieding Center for Senior Health and Education
at Springdale.
”The Schieding Center and the other six geriatric
centers will help enable our senior population to
remain independent, healthy, and at home, and will
provide their caregivers extraordinary resources
heretofore unavailable in their home communities,”
Chancellor Wilson said.
The center is a regional satellite of the Donald
W. Reynolds Center on Aging at UAMS.
Operating in temporary quarters for the last year, it
will move to a new facility in the spring of 2002. The
center will offer patient care as well as
paraprofessional training for home health caregivers.
The center will be a partner of the Northwest
Arkansas Area Health Education Center, part of
the UAMS network of rural programs, and Northwest
Health System in Springdale. Larry D. Wright, M.D.,
FACP, is director of the center and assistant
professor in the Donald W. Reynolds Department of
Geriatrics at the UAMS College of Medicine. Beth
Vaughan-Wrobel, Ed.D., FAAN, R.N., is associate
director of the new center.
The Schmieding Center was the first satellite of the
Donald W. Reynolds Center on Aging to open. The
second, the South Arkansas Center on Aging in El
Dorado, opened this fall.
Mr. Schmieding said when he made the contribution in
1999 that he envisioned a center that would “improve
the quality of life for older adults. Educating more
people as home caregivers is important for keeping
seniors happy and in their homes.”
Mr.
Schmieding made the gift through the Schmieding Foundation. He
has also supported the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville,
Arkansas Children’s Hospital, Salem Lutheran Church in
Springdale, the Harvey and Bernice Jones Center for Families in
Springdale, Helen Tyson Middle School, Schmieding Developmental
Center, and Schmieding Children's Center/Kids First. David A. Lipschitz, M.D., Ph.D., and Claudia J.
Beverly, R.N., Ph.D., director and co-director of the Reynolds
Center at UAMS, have observed that “Mr. Schmieding’s
philanthropy is exceptional, both in the generosity of his gifts
and in the diversity of his support. He chooses carefully the
programs he supports and defines his interests as bettering the
lives of the youngest and the oldest, those who are least able
to take care of themselves.”
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Larry D. Wright, M.D., FACP,
director of the new Schmieding Center gave Chancellor
Wilson a tour of the center's construction site. (All
photos by Amy Theriac, UAMS Media Services)
Beth Vaughan-Wrobel, Ed.D.,
FAAN, R.N., UAMS Chancellor I. Dodd Wilson, M.D., and
Lawrence H. Schmieding discussed plans for a new center of
geriatric care and education.
Mr.
Schmieding greeted Chancellor Wilson at his business, H.C.
Schmieding Produce Co.
Chancellor
Wilson at the site for the Schmieding Center for
Senior Health and Education at Springdale.
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