Smooches from pooches: Dogs send love notes to nursing home residents
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Danielle Brown
Feb 17, 2022
While many nursing home residents across the country may have received letters of love and appreciation from local community members for Valentine’s Day, those at a Georgia nursing facility received...
Stained glass brightens Minnesota facility
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Danielle Brown
Feb 03, 2022
Salvaged stained glass windows from a now-closed nursing home have helped transform a Minnesota facility’s chapel 14 miles away.
Garden-variety therapy: Operator uses partnership to build green-thumb program for residents
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Danielle Brown
Mar 17, 2021
A New Jersey-based provider is partnering with a national organization that offers indoor gardening programs for seniors in long-term care, just in time for spring. Springpoint on Wednesday announced...
100 never looked so good: NY provider celebrates centenarians
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Danielle Brown
Mar 31, 2022
Not one, not two, not three but a New York skilled nursing facility celebrated seven residents that have reached the 100 year milestone with a big birthday celebration last week.
Facility establishes ‘hug tent’ to safely reunite residents, families
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Danielle Brown
Nov 18, 2020
Where there’s a will, there’s a way. And long-term providers are making a way for families and other visitors to safely visit residents.
95-year-old makes more than 3,000 masks for local nursing homes, community
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Danielle Brown
Jan 26, 2021
When masks were hard to come by during the start of the pandemic, Ohio long-term care resident Miriam Looker channeled Rosie the Riveter and sprang into action to make masks for some relatives.
¡Ay caramba! Mariachi band puts on special show for Texas patients
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Danielle Brown
May 19, 2021
A Texas skilled nursing facility decided that Cinco de Mayo was the perfect opportunity to do something special for residents after more than a year of being inside and experiencing limited interaction.
NEA grant funds cultural arts program at American Indian nursing facility
By
Danielle Brown
Feb 05, 2020
Residents at a North Carolina-based American Indian nursing facility will soon be able to participate in a cultural arts program thanks to federal grant funding.
North Carolina group revives old flowers for seniors
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Danielle Brown
Oct 14, 2020
What one person may consider worthless could be highly prized by another. A North Carolina volunteer group is bringing new meaning to the phrase by refurbishing people’s old flowers and giving them to...
Operators announce winners of inaugural scholarship program for employee children
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Danielle Brown
Jun 16, 2021
Eight children of current employees for two long-term care operators were announced as the winners of an inaugural scholarship program designed to support family members of the healthcare workers who plan...