86 Business View - January 2016
Missouri Slope Lutheran
Care Center
Together enriching life
The Missouri Slope Lutheran Care Center was created
in 1962 by a consortium of local Lutheran church con-
gregations and organizations in the greater Bismarck
area. According to Reier Thompson, the Center’s cur-
rent President and CEO, its founders saw the need for
a place where the community’s elderly citizens could
receive compassionate and professional care because
there weren’t many other nursing facilities around at
the time. Groundbreaking took place in 1965 and its
doors officially opened two years later. In the begin-
ning, there were only two different nursing units with a
total of 80 beds. Today, the Center houses six nursing
units with 255 beds, making it the largest, free-stand-
ing nursing facility in its part of the country.
Services offered at Missouri Slope include skilled
nursing care, IV therapy, tracheotomies, tube feeding,
preventative care, hospice and dialysis coordination,
memory care, inpatient and outpatient physical, oc-
cupational, speech and restorative therapy, pastoral
care, respite care, adult day care, monthly dental care,
and transportation for all residents for medical, vision,
and dental visits.
The Center has approximately 580 employees with 35-
40 family practice and internal medicine physicians
HEALTHCARE
