Christmas Wrappings!

A great new activity was tried this week! The Resident Council came up with offering to wrap Christmas presents for staff and community members for a small donation fee. The donations went directly into the Resident Council funds. This helped them earn some discretionary funds as well as helping others with the rushed and sometimes dreaded task of wrapping presents.

Survey is final for 2009

Well here we are!! Mid December and we have acceptance of the survey response that we submitted. These were minor issues if you remember from earlier postings, but it is all major to the Health Department until they have accepted the Plan of Correction (POC). Eventually this survey will make it to the most recent survey on Nursing Home Compare: www.medicare.gov/nhcompare

In other news, we also completed a survey by a team from the Syracuse Office of the Health Department that reviewed our nurse aide training program. We were approved to continue the program through October 31, 2011. This approval to continue our training of certified nurse aides is important because we can observe during training and identify trainees that are most suitable for employment here. It takes special abilities and compassion to become a good nurse's aide. The training program itself is 100 hours of both textbook work and practical application. If you are interested, please contact us at (315) 841-4156 to see when classes are available.