St. Andrew's Resources for Seniors System (STARSS)

Our Mission is to empower elders and their caregivers through choices and options that foster a vital life.

Our Vision is a society where all elders are respected, productive, secure and fulfilled.

About STARSS. Founded in 1961, St. Andrew’s Resources for Seniors System (STARSS) is a faith-based, not-for-profit organization with a mission of serving the housing, health, and supportive services needs of older adults.

St. Andrew’s sponsors and manages 23 senior housing communities (independent living, assisted living, skilled nursing care, and subsidized, senior apartments) in Missouri and Illinois. Through St. Andrew’s Management Services, STARSS also provides quality senior housing management and operational consultation, primarily to other non-profit senior services organizations.

Via St. Andrew’s Senior Solutions, we provide in-home personal and nursing care as well as a wide variety of supportive services to seniors and their family caregivers. St. Andrews & Bethesda Home Health provides Medicare-certified home health services.

St. Andrew’s Spiritual Outreach Ministry St. Andrew’s Spiritual Outreach Ministry enhances the spiritual lives and emotional well-being of shut-ins through visits and chaplaincy services.

And, St. Andrew’s Charitable Foundation provides thousands of dollars annually in housing and supportive services to low-income and at-risk seniors.

St. Andrew's is synonymous with service to seniors, employs nearly 1,000 people, and touches the lives of more than 5,000 older adults and their families each year.

The History of STARSS and the Diocese of Missouri

• 1959 - Committee appointed by the seventh Bishop of Missouri, the Rt. Rev. George Cadigan, to explore the needs of aging persons and the ability and resources of the Church to meet those needs. Committee discovered a similar Committee of the St. Louis Presbytery was engaged in the same exploration, and the two Committees met jointly.
• 1961 - The Committees approved the formation of a non-profit corporation, formed jointly by the local Episcopal and Presbyterian Churches to operate a facility or facilities for the care of elderly people. Board members were appointed by the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri and the Presbytery of Giddings Lovejoy and directed to form a corporation. September 5, 1961, the Episcopal-Presbyterian Foundation for the Aging, Inc., was chartered with six Presbyterians and six Episcopalians as Directors, plus the Moderator and Executive Secretary of the Presbytery and the Bishop and Canon to the Ordinary as permanent members. The Board defined its immediate objective as the operation of a residence for elderly well people, for their lifetime.
• 1981 - STARS created St. Andrew's Home Services (now called St. Andrew’s Senior Solutions), a not-for-profit organization designed to meet the urgent need to provide cost-efficient care for the elderly in their homes, primarily as an alternative to the high cost of nursing homes. STARS created St. Andrew's Management Services, Inc., as a wholly owned subsidiary, to provide management consultation and operations management to organizations across the country, which are interested in offering service to older people.
• 1985 - STARS changed its name to St. Andrew’s Episcopal-Presbyterian Foundation. STARS, its affiliates and subsidiary are most commonly referred to as simply "St. Andrew's" and the name links all resources of services together. St. Andrew's was chosen as it represents a mission of outreach to people with various service needs.
• 1992 - In January, the Spiritual Outreach Ministry program began.
• 2000 - St. Andrew’s Episcopal-Presbyterian Foundation changed its name to St. Andrew’s Resources for Seniors (STARS) in December, 2000.
• 2009 - The name St. Andrew’s Resources for Seniors System (STARSS) was added in 2009.