Upload
others
View
1
Download
0
Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
UPCOMING EVENTS
JANUARY 1ST
NEW YEARS DAY
JANUARY 8TH
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELVIS
JANUARY 5TH
THREE KINGS CELEBRATION
JANUARY 17TH
RENISSANCE HIGH SCHOOL VISITS
JANUARY 26TH
ENTERTAINMENT: JON WEISS
FEBRUARY 2ND
ENTERTAINMENT: PAULINE JEAN
FEBRUARY 14TH
ASH WEDNESDAY & VALENTINES DAY
FEBRUARY 16TH
PIZZA PARTY
FEBRUARY 23RD
ENTERTAINMENT: DON ANTHONY
Happy Holidays to All!
I hope each and every one of you had a wonderful
Holiday season with your loved ones. This year was full of exciting activities
both challenging in the mind and entertaining of course! We closed out the
year with several holiday themed events which included our Christmas Tree
lighting and our Annual Christmas Party which our Friends, Family, and staff
members were able to enjoy. A delicious meal was served by our kitchen and
the wonderful entertainment was enjoyed by all. Christmas day was indeed
special for our residents as each of you received a special gift!
The conclusion of construction of the building came right in time for
the New Year. We now have a totally renovated, state of the art building
equipped with flat screen TV’s, new bedding, paintings and brand-new
flooring. Finally, we did our grand re-opening of our resident Lounge area which
also has a large TV and brand-new seating area available for family members to
visit.
As we close out 2017, I would like to publicly thank each staff member
for all their hard work and dedication they provide to our residents. I would
also like to thank the residents here at Williamsbridge Center for giving me
lifelong lessons that I can use each and every day of my life from your life
experiences. As for 2018 I would like to wish you all good health and well
wishes to you and your family!
A note from the Administrator
January 2018 1540 Tomlinson Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461
Henry Heinemann
2
January 2018
INTRODUCING YOUR NEW
ACTIVITY DIRECTOR ☺
Hello Everybody! I am your new Activity Director,
Stephanie Cosme. I am excited to be working with
the staff members at Williamsbridge Center and for
the Centers Health Care organization! My goal is to
bring the Resident’s here at Williamsbridge the
opportunity to enjoy their leisure time though a
variety of Recreational Activities whether it is
through live entertainment, Special events, or beside
activities. I hope you all enjoyed your Annual
Christmas party as well as your Christmas! I look
forward into bringing the New Year together!
Here at Williamsbridge, recognize that our
Resident’s are unique individuals who may
have hidden talents. James Werner truly
enjoys completing his artwork that he
shares with staff and fellow peers. He
feels that doing artwork provides a creative
outlook. When he is not attending groups
or playing cards, he spends his leisure time
manifesting his creative side into a tangible
masterpiece.
January 2018 3
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE RESIDENT’S BORN IN THE
MONTH OF
JANUARY & FEBRUARY!
JANUARY
KWAME NYAN 6TH
MARY WILLIAMS 7TH
JOHN COLLINS 14TH
DAVID VEGA 20TH
JAMES TYRES 30TH
WILFREDO TORRES-
RIVERA 31ST
KENTON ROJAS 31ST
FEBRUARY
FERNANDO ROSA 5TH
EUGENE THORPE 10TH
LEONARD DIAMOND 18TH
VERONIKA KABANOFF 25TH
4 January 2018
2017 HIGHLIGHTS
THIS PICTURE WAS
FEATURED IN THE
BRONX TIMES ☺
January 2018 5
VISITS FROM OUR FURRY FRIEND
“CUPID”
AFTERNOON WITH ELVIS
TREE TRIMING PARTY
AND A BRAND NEW LOUNGE ☺
6 January 2018
In every edition of our newsletter, I try to share with you something interesting that I’ve
come across, or to let you know about some of the things that our staff and residents are
involved in. I always look forward to the opportunity of sharing these stories with all of
you, but without fail the January newsletter is my favorite of the year. I eagerly anticipate
the start of each new year. There’s so much hope and promise that accompanies the changing of the
calendar. This week, as I reflected on the year just passed and the year ahead, I realized that what I should
be writing about in this edition is a look back at all we accomplished and a look ahead at what we hope to
bring to you in the future. This was such an exciting year, and 2018 holds so much that I hope I have
enough space!
The biggest impact on our Centers family this past year was certainly our expansion. Seven facilities in the
upstate New York region joined us in September, but that wasn’t all. Our application to purchase the Indian
River facility in Granville, where we had been consulting for several years, finally came to fruition and
Granville Center is now a full member of the Centers Health Care family. Two more facilities, one in
Cooperstown and one in Utica, are in the process of joining us and we are consulting daily with both of
them, bringing the Centers spirit of Heart Health Home to the people of Central New York. And our
expansion continued with Beth Abraham Center in the Bronx, Martine Center in Westchester,
Far Rockaway Center in Queens and Oak Hill Center in Rhode Island, which became our fourth facility in
that state. All together they brought our total to 42 of the northeast’s finest skilled nursing and rehabilitation
facilities. We are exploring additional opportunities as I write this and I look forward to telling you about
more new family members throughout the course of 2018.
Despite the growing size of our family, we found plenty of time to continue our efforts to upgrade our
existing facilities. I wrote in the fall about Williamsbridge Center in the Bronx which now has a whole new
look, but extensive renovations took place this year in Deptford, Hammonton, Buffalo, Ellicott, Bannister,
Triboro, Richmond, Bronx, Corning, our Neurobehavioral Center and at Northern Manor. More and more of
our facilities are taking on the look of world class residences, to go along with the world class care they
provide. In 2018, we’ll near completion of a stunning new facility on Buffalo Avenue in Brooklyn that the
Centers team designed from the ground up. Ongoing or new renovation projects are slated for Corning,
Ontario, Holliswood and others.
Activities and lifestyle weren’t forgotten either, and many homes increased their recreational staff and
activity offerings, but the most popular was surely the expansion of Centers’ therapy pony program.
Happy Horse Visits are now being made regularly to more than twenty of our homes and we hope to
include at least a dozen more in 2018.
In the fall, we added our second Centers Urgent Care location. Centers Urgent Care in Brooklyn joins our
successful walk-in center in Queens, where neighbors get exactly what they
need – they walk in, get seen, and go home – seven days a week.
This past spring saw the introduction of the Centers Health Care Patient
Advocacy Award, an award that we plan to make an annual event to honor the
dedicated social workers in every part of the health care industry who do so
much, for so many. Spring also saw us playing a pivotal role in the launch of the
Institute for Pressure Injury Prevention, an international group supported by
Centers Health Care whose sole mission is to eradicate bed sores from health
care institutions the world over.
A note from Kenny
January 2018 7
As always, improving care, with initiatives like the Institute for Pressure Injury Prevention is always first on our
list of priorities and our continually decreasing rate of resident hospitalizations points to the success we’ve
had. We introduced on-site, facility staff physicians in locations thought-out the three states we serve so that
our residents won’t necessarily have to be sent out of their homes for doctor-prescribed medical treatment.
We augmented that with significant expansion of our tele-medicine program. Using the very latest in
technology, an off-site physician can now work with a skilled nurse specially trained in tele-medicine, to meet
with a patient 24/7, review their condition and prescribe an appropriate course of care. The program has
already shown itself to reduce trips to the hospital by as much as 80%, and more facilities will see tele-
medicine coming to them this year. In all of our facilities we increased the amount, level and complexity of our
in-service training to ensure that our residents get the very best care and that our staff is trained and fully able
to handle the most complex medical cases who, more and more, are requesting placement at a Centers
Health Care facility. In 2018, we’ll be adding more skills to our training sessions and introducing a brand new
Career Ladders program to encourage and provide financial assistance to those on our nursing staff- CNAs,
LPNs and RNs – who want to begin taking classes toward their next level of education and advancement
within the Centers Health Care family. It’s certainly a long term goal, but we look forward to the day when we
can point to a facility Director of Nursing and say that he or she began as a CNA who joined us without skills or
nursing training, and worked their way to LPN, RN, Unit Manager and ultimately Director though our Careers
Ladder program.
While we’re proud of these accomplishments and have set ambitious goals for the coming year, what I am
most proud of, personally and professionally, are the outstanding, dedicated professionals that do so much,
every day, for the people they serve. And to all of our residents, you are the people who make our
communities the very special places they are. If you have chosen to make us your home or have come here
for help in completing your recovery and rehabilitation, I want to assure you that we will continue to do all we
can to provide you with the finest care, the most comfortable accommodations and a thriving, vibrant lifestyle.
Sincerely,
Kenny Rozenberg, CEO
Renderings of the new Buffalo Center lobby and therapy gym.
1540 Tomlinson Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461
www.williamsbridgecenter.net
8 January 2018
www.facebook.com/WilliamsbridgeCenter
SOME GOOD ADVICE ☺