Special to the Northwest Weekly

The grand opening of Leeza’s Place, a resource center supporting caregivers and those recently diagnosed with debilitating conditions, is set for 3 p.m. Friday, Aug. 22.

Leeza’s Place is at the The Bob Ross Senior Multi-Service Health & Resource Center, 2219 Babcock (San Antonio Medical Center).

Special guests include: Leeza Gibbons, Leeza’s place founder; George M. Rapier, WellMed founder; Diane Cibrian, San Antonio City Council District 8; and Dennis Campa, Department of Community Initiatives director, City of San Antonio.

Leeza’s Place By WellMed is a free community resource center serving caregivers and their families – people impacted by debilitating conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, chronic lung disease and heart disease.

The non-profit WellMed Charitable Foundation is underwriting the first three years of the program at a cost of a little more than $250,000. San Antonio’s Department of Community Initiatives and the Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation also are partners in the program.

Leeza developed her program in response to difficulty she and her family experienced in caring for Leeza’s grand-mother, now deceased, and her mother, Gloria Jean Gibbons, who passed away on May 22. Both battled Alzheimer’s disease. The first Leeza’s Place opened in Manhattan in 2003.

For more information, visit www.leezasplace. org.