The entire iCare team is excited to celebrate National Nursing Home Week, this week May 13-19th. According to the American Health Care Association (AHCA) website, AHCA established the weeklong celebration in 1967, always beginning on Mother’s Day. NNHW provides an opportunity for residents and their loved ones, staff, volunteers, and surrounding communities to recognize the role of skilled nursing care centers in caring for America’s seniors and individuals with disabilities.

Members of iCare’s Transitional Care Nursing Team attended the 54th Annual Robert M. Jeresaty, MD Cardiovascular Symposium at the Hoffman Heart and Vascular Institute. Pictured here are Billy Boyce, Director of Care Transitions; Maggey Monterio, Care Transitions Nurse; and Francis Lijadu, Unit Manager at Touchpoints at Bloomfield.

If you are out and about, take a look at the Touchpoints at Bloomfield grounds and see what we are up to.  For the past three years we have been tapping our trees for sap to make maple syrup from scratch. We are lucky to have our very own Andy Cassasa, Director of Maintenance, collect the sap and cook it down to make pure maple syrup. Every year it’s a tradition for the recreation department to make homemade Belgian waffles for our residents with our very own maple syrup. 

As previously teased here, Touchpoints Rehab and iCare now have a commercial running on NBC in the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang. A special thanks again to our star, Touchpoints at Bloomfield’s Director of Nursing, Shanta Griffiths, and to the residents and staff at Touchpoints at Farmington for hosting the film crew and making the ad possible. Thank you also to NBC who has been excellent to work with.

February is designated as American Heart Month to bring attention and awareness to the prevalence and severity of heart disease in the United States.   Touchpoints at Bloomfield staff and residents wore red on February 2, 2018 for National Wear Red Day. Did you know that nearly a quarter of deaths in the United States are caused by heart disease? While that statistic is staggering, the good news is that heart disease is often preventable.