COVINGTON LADIES HOME, INC. dba Victorian at Riverside

Goal 1. Provide a safe and comfortable environment focused on maintaining the personal independence and intellectual and psychosocial wellbeing of seniors.

Goal 2. Create and maintain beneficial partnerships within the community to expand resources available to the Victorian at Riverside.

Goal 3. Develop and execute a viable, long-range financial model to support our mission.

Goal 4. Implement evaluation strategies to ensure continuing relevance to changing demographics and community needs.

Goal 1.
Provide a safe and comfortable environment focused on maintaining the personal independence and intellectual and psychosocial wellbeing of seniors.

Licensed by the Commonwealth of Kentucky, we operate a “personal care home,” providing continuous supervision of residents, basic health and health-related services, personal-care services, residential-care services, and social and recreational activities. In Kentucky, this defines an intermediate level of care between the non-medical, “assisted living” model of care, and licensed, skilled nursing that a hospital or a nursing home would provide. We provide special memory care services for seniors living with dementia and other brain disorders.


Goal 2.
Create and maintain beneficial partnerships within the community to expand resources available to Victorian at Riverside.

In 2019, we accomplished the following:

- Collaborated with more than two dozen community partners to improve health or provide social enrichment opportunities.

- Logged 1395 volunteer hours.

- Received a total of $70,482 in program support from 18 corporate, municipal, and foundation funders, as well as $18,300 in gifts from 30 individual donors.


Goal 3.
Develop and execute a viable, long-range financial model to support our mission.

Our neighborhood, the Historic Licking Riverside District, is on the National Register of Historic Places. Our beautiful mansion was built for us in 1894 expressly to care for elderly women. Well maintained and cheerful, our facility provides each resident a private room with space for personal furnishings.

But future residents expect modern amenities such as private bathrooms, communal gathering areas, and safe outdoor spaces, as well as wheelchair accessibility. We are constructing a new care wing, attached to our historic building, which will address the health needs, privacy, and dignity of our residents. This new wing will increase our capacity to serve, providing rooms for 40 residents. The amenities we offer will enable us to charge a competitive market rate. A mix of private pay to subsidized pay will generate the income needed to operate our nonprofit, fulfilling our mission to serving seniors in need. We have rebranded the new wing as the Victorian at Riverside, reflecting our legacy in the community, but legally we remain the Covington Ladies Home.


Goal 4.
Implement evaluation strategies to ensure continuing relevance to changing demographics and community needs.

In 2013, our board of directors began exploring the possibility of facility renovation, or building anew. We then hired outside firms to conduct market and feasibility studies. In 2018 our project to build a new care wing , attached to our historic building, received a Certificate of Need from the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services. Construction began in 2019 and opened in July 2021.

1. We own the land on which we build.

2. We have financed this $5.75 million expansion by raising $1.3 million in community support; self-financing $1 million through the federal PACE program supporting energy-efficient improvements to residential housing; and withdrawing funds from our endowment that had been established to subsidize the care of the residents.

We have funded this $5.75 million expansion by raising $1.3 million in community support; self-financing $1 million through the federal PACE program supporting energy-efficient improvements to residential housing; and withdrawing funds from our endowment that had been established to subsidize the care of the residents.

Construction began in October 2019, continued despite the pandemic, and opened in July 2021, when the upstairs dormitories closed in the old building and the current residents moved to their new rooms next door.