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Wartburg Earns Spot on Newsweek Best Nursing Home Ranking

Wartburg has received top honors on Newsweek’s “America’s Best Nursing Homes 2025” list for the 12th consecutive year.

October 23, 2024

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St. John's Home Appoints Dan Morphet as Vice President of Skilled Services

St. John’s Home is pleased to announce the appointment of Dan Morphet as vice president of skilled services.

October 23, 2024

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NYC Health + Hospitals/Carter Receives Enhanced Respiratory Care Accreditation for Its Ventilator Weaning Program

Henry J. Carter Specialty Hospital & Nursing Facility has received the enhanced respiratory care accreditation from the Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety for its ventilator weaning program. Carter is the first nursing home in New York City and the first long-term acute care hospital in the country to receive this recognition.

October 23, 2024

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1st Annual Halloween Dog Parade Hosted For Gurwin Residents In Commack

Residents of Gurwin Jewish Nursing & Rehabilitation Center were all smiles recently as staff brought their furry companions to strut their stuff in their first annual Halloween Dog Parade, complete with costumes, treats, and wagging tails.

October 22, 2024

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Commentary: We're giving employees free food. We'd rather give them better wages.

Michael S. King, president and CEO of Jewish Home, discusses the opening of the community’s new employee grocery store, and how New York’s underfunding of nursing home Medicaid rates impacts staff wages and more, in a new opinion piece in the Albany Times Union.

October 21, 2024

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The Osborn WellSpring Series Presents Dr. Joseph W. Polisi, Author of Beacon to the World: A History of Lincoln Center, on Nov. 7

Continuing its popular WellSpring Series, The Osborn will host Dr. Joseph W. Polisi, author of Beacon to the World: A History of Lincoln Center, on Thurs., Nov. 7, 2024 at 7:30 p.m. in its Auditorium.

October 17, 2024

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Nascentia Health Celebrates Success of 12th Annual Raise a Glass Fundraiser at Timber Banks in Baldwinsville

Nascentia Health is thrilled to announce the incredible success of its 12th annual Raise a Glass Fundraiser, which took place on Oct. 6th at Timber Banks in Baldwinsville. The event, attended by hundreds of supporters, featured a memorable afternoon filled with charitable activities, including a silent auction, raffle baskets, a wine pull, grub grab, door prizes, and more.

October 16, 2024

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NYC Health + Hospitals Recognizes 10 Nursing Professionals Across its Five Skilled Nursing Facilities for its DAISY Award & BEE Award Celebrations

As part of its third annual Post-Acute Care Nursing Awards, NYC Health + Hospitals honored 10 nursing professionals from across its five long-term care facilities – Coler Rehabilitation and Nursing Care Center, Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, Gouverneur Healthcare Services Skilled Nursing Facility, Henry J. Carter Specialty Hospital & Nursing Facility, and Sea View Hospital Rehabilitation Center & Home – including five registered nurses nominated for the DAISY Award and five certified nursing assistants nominated for the in-house BEE Award.

October 11, 2024

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Hate: It's real, and we should all be sick about it

Jeffrey Farber, MD, CEO of The New Jewish Home, discusses the organization's experience with anti-Semitism in the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks in Israel in a new interview with McKnight's.

October 11, 2024

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7 New York nursing homes successfully deprescribe residents through United Hospital Fund partnership

A United Hospital Fund collaboration with seven New York nursing homes – including ArchCare at Mary Manning Walsh Home; Gouverneur Healthcare Services Skilled Nursing Facility; Gurwin Jewish Nursing & Rehabilitation Center; Hebrew Home at Riverdale; Jamaica Hospital Nursing Home, The Center for Comprehensive Nursing and Rehab; and The New Jewish Home – spurred an 8 percent decrease in the number of potentially harmful medications prescribed to residents.

October 11, 2024
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