Buckingham’s Choice - A Continuing Care Retirement Community

Buckingham’s Choice, is proud to announce Michael Conord as its Executive Director, effective August 23rd. Michael is a well-respected executive in the field of Senior Services with 15 years experience in Senior Housing. He served as the Executive Director at Charlestown Retirement Community for 11 years.

Prior to his career in Senior Housing, Michael was a Senior Pastor in the Presbyterian Church in America. He served as Senior Pastor at Severna Park Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Severna Park, MD for nine years.

Michael currently sits as a board member of LIFESPAN, the Maryland not-for-profit association representing senior housing providers. He also is a board member of South West Emergency Services (SWES), an organization that provides a major source of clothing and food for the local poor in southwest Baltimore.

Belonging to the EMA faith-based family of retirement communities and resources, Buckingham’s Choice is a not-for-profit full-service continuing care retirement community with 217 residential living apartments and cottages, 45 assisted living apartments, and a 42 bed comprehensive nursing care center. Buckingham’s Choice has been serving Frederick County since 1999. Other members of the EMA family not mentioned previously include Fairhaven, Copper Ridge and The Copper Ridge Institute, all located in Carroll County and William Hill Manor located in Talbot County.

In an awards ceremony held at Buckingham’s Choice, members of the management team along with residents and staff presented scholarships totaling $21,000 to fourteen high school student employees. Buckingham's Choice High School Scholarship Program recognizes and encourages secondary education following high school among its high school student employees.  Recipients must be current high school students that work a minimum of 624 hours in a year that runs from October 31st to October 30th of the following year.  If the student is a senior and employment less than one year, then a minimum of 312 hours is required prior to graduation in order to be eligible.  Recipients are eligible to receive $1,000 toward secondary education for each year of employment as a student. 

In addition to scholarships, Buckingham’s Choice also offers tuition reimbursement to employees.

Belonging to the EMA faith-based family of retirement communities and resources, Buckingham’s Choice is a not-for-profit full-service continuing care retirement community with 217 residential living apartments and cottages, 45 assisted living apartments, and a 42 bed comprehensive nursing care center. Buckingham’s Choice has been serving Frederick County since 1999. Other members of the EMA family not mentioned previously include Fairhaven, Copper Ridge and The Copper Ridge Institute, all located in Carroll County and William Hill Manor located in Talbot County.

On June 3, 2009, an awards ceremony was held at Buckingham's Choice. Members of the Management team along with residents and staff presented scholarships totaling $16,000 to ten high school student employees.

Buckingham's Choice High School Scholarship Program recognizes and encourages secondary education following high school among its high school student employees.  Recipients must be current high school students and maintain a minimum of 24 hours of work in a bi-weekly pay period.  Recipients are eligible to receive $1,000 toward secondary education for each year of employment as a student.  Buckingham's Choice also offers tuition reimbursement to employees.

Belonging to the EMA, faith-based family of retirement communities and resources, Buckingham's Choice is a full-service continuing care retirement community with 217 residential living apartments and cottages, 45 assisted living apartments and a 42-bed comprehensive nursing care center.  Buckingham's Choice has been serving Frederick County since 1999.  Other members of the EMA family not mentioned include Fairhaven and Copper Ridge in Carroll County and William Hill Manor in Talbot County.

Buckingham’s Choice, a member of the EMA faith-based family of retirement communities and resources, has been reaccredited by CARF-CCAC, the nation’s only accrediting body for continuing care retirement communities.

To become accredited by CARF-CCAC, a participating community must demonstrate ongoing innovation and continued conformance to standards. This means they must be committed to continuous quality improvement in their governance and administrative structures, fiscal practices, and the care and services they provide in such areas as culinary, activities, resident rights, access to services, nursing, and the overall safety and security of the community.

Participating in the accreditation process means an organization has a genuine commitment to continuous self-evaluation and performance improvement guided by an external, independent, third-party accreditation organization. Everyone within the organization—staff, residents, and the board of directors—is involved in the accreditation process.

A community must demonstrate continued conformance on an annual basis before being reaccredited by CARF-CCAC. More information on this accreditation may be found at www.carf.org/aging.

Belonging to the EMA faith-based family of retirement communities and resources, Buckingham’s Choice is a not-for-profit full-service continuing care retirement community with 217 residential living apartments and cottages, 45 assisted living apartments, and a 42 bed comprehensive nursing care center. Buckingham’s Choice has been serving Frederick County since 1999. Other members of the EMA family not mentioned previously include Fairhaven, Copper Ridge and The Copper Ridge Institute, all located in Carroll County and William Hill Manor located in Talbot County.