United Pioneer Home History

 

In 1947, how to better care for the aged was on the minds of the Luck Lutheran Church congregation. A Project to build an "old-folks" home was subsequently launched and a great deal of planning and sacrifice ensued before the idea became a reality. The original idea of a Lutheran Home was expanded and the project became non-sectarian with the final result being "United Pioneer Home, Inc." The United Pioneer Home opened in June of 1953 and was built using donated labor and free will donations of local church congregations and was open to any aged person of the area. It was the original "assisted living" facility in Polk county.

After 57 years, the ideal of providing care to the elderly continues. The United Pioneer Home Inc., now has 50 skilled nursing home beds and 20 HUD, rent assisted apartments for the elderly and elderly handicapped on a five acre campus located in a residential neighborhood in the Village of Luck. The not-for-profit, non-stock corporation is governed by a Board of Directors representing the member churches. Most of the Board of Directors have had or do have relatives living in the facility. Contact us today for your long-term care and housing needs.

The United Pioneer Home, Inc, is pledged to the letter and spirit of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development's policy for the achievement of equal housing opportunity throughout the nation. We encourage and support an affirmative advertising and marketing program in which there are no barriers to obtaining housing because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin according to law. The Pioneer Apartments does not discriminate on the basis of handicapped status in the admission or access to, or treatment or employment in, its federally assisted programs and activities.