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Business View Magazine
The Salem Home
Revolutionizing relationship-centered care
The Salem Home is the largest personal care home
(PCH) in rural Manitoba. It is owned by 13 Mennonite
congregations within the town of Winkler and the near-
by region. Its 290-member staff serves level three and
four, maximum-care residents who require assistance
with the activities of daily living, including help with
meals, medication, ambulation, getting up and going
to bed, etc.
Sherry Janzen is Salem Home’s Chief Executive Of-
ficer. She recounts the facility’s beginnings: “Salem
Home opened its doors in 1956, in response to the
Winkler and surrounding area not having a place for
the elderly to go when they needed care or they were
no longer able to live by themselves. The first build was
59 beds and then three years later they added more
beds, and it’s been growing since then. Today we are
at 145 beds – our last addition was in 2001.”
Salem Home’s service to all of its residents is based
on a Relationship-Centered-Care model. Relationship-
centered care is provided in the following specialized
environments: Personal Care, Special Needs or Al-
zheimer’s/Dementia Care, Young Residents, Behav-
ioral Modification, and Respite Care.
