For several months this year, the National Guard was deployed at The Green Rehab & Skilled Nursing to help relieve stress on the workers by helping out in any way possible. The men and women in uniform first arrived to help with general purpose, helping out in any way that did not involve patient care, which eventually evolved into medically trained professionals coming in to help out. May 27^th was their last day serving at The Green, and as workers say, the Guard members have improved the nursing home for everyone.

Carly Zecher, director of finance at Jewish Senior Life, has been honored as a 2022 Financial Leaders award recipient by the Rochester Business Journal and the Rochester Chapter of Financial Executives International.

Brookmeade Community, along with local elected officials, recently honored three employees who graduated in their respective fields. Graduates included Naim Fanek, who completed his nursing home administrator in training internship and obtained his administrator license through the New York State Department of Health; Chelsea Moore, who graduated with her associate degree from Columbia-Greene Community College and is now a registered nurse; and Katherine Seckler, who completed her master’s degree in social work from Sacred Heart University.

Jewish Senior Life celebrated the first anniversary of the reopening of its Adult Day Health Care program on May 20, 2022.

Fox Run at Orchard Park will host a fundraising event on Thurs., June 2, 2022 to generate donations and awareness in support of the ongoing humanitarian efforts in Ukraine.

The New Jewish Home's seventh annual Eight Over Eighty Gala, celebrating eight remarkable New Yorkers over age 80 (and one over 90) who continue to embody vitality, achievement, and civic activism well into their 80s and beyond, will be held at the Ziegfeld Ballroom on Wed., June 1, 2022 at 6:30 p.m. This year's honorees are New York Yankee legend and National Baseball Hall of Famer Joe Torre; Grammy-winning singer, actress, and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Darlene Love; civil rights activist and past NAACP president Hazel Dukes; six-time Tony Award and Olivier Award-winning producer and founder of B Square + 4 Productions Barbara Freitag; real estate mogul, civic leader, and philanthropist William Mack; former New York City Public Advocate and current executive director of Citizens Union Betsy Gotbaum; real estate investor and philanthropist Harvey Schulweis; businessman, philanthropist, and community leader Philip Altheim; and philanthropist and longtime board member of The New Jewish Home Margot Freedman.

On Wed., May 11^th, Wartburg hosted its Salute to Nurses Reception in celebration of Nursing Week. Carmen Graham, LPN, a nurse in Wartburg's Skilled Nursing division, was surprised with the organization's first-ever international DAISY Award.

Fountaingate Gardens, a 10-acre, 435,600-square-foot senior living facility for residents age 62 and older, has opened in Commack.