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It was 1995 when Providence Life Services began planning an Assisted Living community in Homer Glen, Illinois. Four years later, the first residents moved in to the Victorian Inn for Assisted Living. This was the first phase of the Victorian Village community, which would grow to include Retirement Living in the Grand Victorian, Townhouse Living in the Victorian Courts, and Memory Care, Skilled Nursing, and Rehab in the Victorian Village Health & Wellness Center.…

Allison was a bit concerned when she found out her mother Audrey needed to stay at a rehab center after a prolonged sickness. After all, she had watched her father go to a rehab facility, and it had been what she describes as “a very bad experience.” She and her sister were given three different choices for their mom’s care, so they visited all of them. One was Victorian Village Health & Wellness Center. “It was completely different from the others,” Allison says.…

When Diane Giglio walked in the doors of a Providence skilled nursing community almost 35 years ago, it was the first time she’d been in a nursing home. It was also the day she knew she was called to serve there. “I remember looking at the face of a woman who lived there, and I instantly knew this was where I belonged,” she says. “This is what I was born to do.” …

Joan Yunker lives in her home in Mokena, where she has had an active social life and lives independently. But one fall and a chipped hip bone put that independence on hold. Joan faced a medical procedure, a hospital stay, and then a rehab stay. After rehab, she wasn’t sure she was quite ready to be on her own.…

Making the decision to help a family member move to an Assisted Living community is often a difficult one. For Bill, as he observed his aunt Gertrude, it came down to one thing.…

At age 102, after living independently for many years, and then living with her gracious niece for several more years, Clara Togtman decided it was time to make the move to Victorian Village. “I already knew so many people who lived there,” she says. “I knew it would be a great place for me, and it really has been.”…