Nursing home showcases art of Holocaust survivor residents
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Foster Stubbs
Aug 22, 2023
If a picture is worth a thousand words, the art on the walls of the MJHS Menorah Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing Care would easily bypass any word limit you could imagine. The artists have endured...
Barbiemania takes over Gurwin Healthcare System
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Foster Stubbs
Aug 15, 2023
The release of the “Barbie” movie on July 21 swept a tsunami of pink across the country. Gurwin Healthcare System in New York was no exception. Its campus-wide “Barbiefest” featured all-pink...
Human resources director is the wheel deal – skilled nursing facility kicks employee appreciation into...
By
Anjali Byju
Aug 08, 2023
KeeKee Davis certainly doesn’t do her job for recognition. As a certified nursing assistant and eight-year veteran of Cedar Ridge Health & Rehab Center in Lebanon,IL, helping others is just second nature. ...
Chicken coop brings clucks and chuckles to Louisiana nursing home
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Foster Stubbs
Aug 01, 2023
What do you call four chickens sharing a home? Simple: Bobbie, Bailey, Nugget and Roxanne — if you’re at Alpine Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation in Ruston, LA. Rather than an overpriced studio...
They get the point: Smile Squad crosses hallways to bring cheer to skilled nursing patients
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Anjali Byju
Jul 25, 2023
At The Buckingham, a senior living community in Houston, 20 independent living residents are wearing smiles (and red aprons!) to help their skilled nursing neighbors. In the fall of 2018, resident Emily...
Skilled nursing residents put on dancing shoes for (another) senior prom
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Foster Stubbs
Jul 18, 2023
It turns out high school seniors are not the only ones who get to go to prom. That’s the case at least if you are a “life” senior and a resident of one of The Grand Rehabilitation and Nursing facilities...
Teenage genie: Ruby Chitsey makes nursing residents’ dreams come true by granting their wishes –...
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Anjali Byju
Jul 11, 2023
Most 15-year-olds spend their free time playing video games or watching television. For Ruby Chitsey, however, it’s an age when time is of the essence and she chooses to spend hers at a local nursing...
Nursing home residents recreate ‘Roaring Twenties’ picnic at historic mansion
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Foster Stubbs
Jul 05, 2023
The Kennedy Mansion in Canton, SD, sticks out from all the other residences in town. Built in 1917, it has been a fixture in the community ever since. Many of the residents at Good Samaritan Society-Canton...
Python Ron charms snakes — and residents — at grateful nursssssing home
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Anjali Byju
Jun 27, 2023
Coming face to face with an 18-foot-long python may seem daunting to some, but to the residents of Woodland (CA) Skilled Nursing, it’s just another Monday. Residents recently put on their sunscreen and...
Memory care residents wipe out nursing home’s ‘mole’ problem
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Foster Stubbs
Jun 20, 2023
“Whack-a-Mole” is a popular game seen at arcades and fairs across the nation. But what if it was … human-size?