areLink,
founded in 1997, is a non-profit management
service organization. CareLink was founded through
historic collaboration between four of Rhode
Island’s premier not-for-profit elder care
providers. Saint Antoine Residence, Steere House,
the Scandinavian Home and the Saint Elizabeth
Community have partnered in a unique arrangement to
take advantage of collaborative opportunities,
strategic innovations and with the intent of
providing high quality senior care throughout the
state of Rhode Island.
To meet the goal of
providing high quality, integrated care, CareLink expanded
membership to include partners with proven excellence in
providing community care. The network represents
independent housing, supported housing, nursing home care,
skilled and specialty units, behavioral health and substance
abuse, Medicare certified home care, personal care chore
services, adult day health programming and emergency
response systems.