When you live in a community where you know your neighbors, you usually know someone on staff at one of the hospitals. This simple, interpersonal dynamic, produces a bond of community that translates itself in the realization that the stranger you don't know is probably your neighbor's aunt, brother or cousin. This unique bond offers patients at a community hospital a quality of service often unknown at large institutions. The River Bend communities foster a sense of neighborhood. There are neighborhood block parties and band concerts in the community parks, people sit out on their front porches and visit with those that are out walking.
People know and care about their neighbors.
The result of this old fashioned neighborliness, is a feeling of support and caring, more friends and less crime. The River Bend area offers nearly 200 houses of worship. While distinctively individual, each religious organization is dedicated to the common goal of fellowship and good will as guided by their own individual religious beliefs. The churches 'm the River Bend area have often taken a leading role in offering support and financial assistance to those suffering a catastrophe or those in need. In addition to religious support, there are approximately 189 service, civic, social and business clubs and organizations many of which are working to improve the quality of life within the community.