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Our Services
Lifeline and Mobile Meal Services
Lifeline
Lifeline is a personal emergency response system providing monitoring devices to elderly or disabled people living alone who are at risk for medical emergencies and who may be unable to call for help when those situations occur.
Lifeline participants wear either a medallion around their neck or a bracelet, which has a button they press in case of an emergency. The button activates a device connection to their telephone, and a call is placed to an emergency response center in Cambridge, Mass. The response center that receives this call has instant access via computer to the person's health history and personal profile. The center then calls the number of the activated unit, and if they are unable to get an answer, they contact that person's responders. Every person with a Lifeline device picks three responders who live no more than 15 minutes from them who could immediately go and check on them. These three responders would have a key to the person's home so that they would be able to get in. If those responders are not available, the response center then calls the police.
St. Francis and the St. Francis Auxiliary have been offering the Lifeline services to people since 1989. Anyone is eligible to receive the Lifeline services by simply filling out an application. They will then be contacted by someone at St. Francis who will send a trained volunteer to install the device. There is a monthly fee of $25 for operating costs.
For more information on this service, call Lifeline at 800-852-5433.
Mobile Meals
St. Francis Mobile Meals provides a nutritious and well-balanced lunch to those who are homebound in Shakopee. More than 100 volunteers deliver fresh, ready-to-eat meals that include an entrée, two side dishes, salad, bread, dessert and a beverage. The service also accommodates nutritional restrictions and religious preferences. For more information or to sign up for this service call Delores Griffith at 952-445-1289.