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Heritage Ministries CEO named to Power 250 List

Lisa Haglund, president and CEO of Heritage Ministries, has been named to the Buffalo Business First Power 250 list for 2022.

March 3, 2022

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Long Island colleges, universities easing mask mandates, other protocols

Stuart Almer, president and CEO of Gurwin Jewish Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, discusses the potential future of the State's mask mandate for hospitals, nursing homes, and other congregate settings in a new interview with Newsday.

March 1, 2022

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Affordable Housing for Older Adults: A Roadmap for Housing Developers

Affordable Housing for Older Adults: Developer-Provider Partnerships, a paper recently published by Selfhelp Realty Group | The Melamid Institute for Affordable Housing, offers a roadmap for non-profit and for-profit housing developers building affordable housing for older adults.

February 28, 2022

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United Hebrew Shares How Music Therapy Benefits Senior Care Residents

Carrie Deppong, director of therapeutic recreation at United Hebrew of New Rochelle, discusses the ways the community is using music to engage and support its residents in a new interview with I Advance Senior Care.

February 28, 2022

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Osborn Home Care’s Michele Thomas Named Rye's Local Business Person of 2022 by Alignable

Michele Thomas, executive vice president at Osborn Home Care, has been named Rye's Local Business Person of 2022 by Alignable, the largest online referral network for small businesses in the U.S.

February 25, 2022

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Meadows awarded Eli Pick Leadership honor again

The American College of Health Care Administrators recently recognized the continued top performance of Meadows at Brookmeade CEO and Administrator Karen Zobel, NHA, LCSW, by awarding her the Eli Pick Facility Leadership Award for the ninth year in a row.

February 25, 2022

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Three St. Ann’s team members receive inaugural Anna & Len Stein Award for going above and beyond in caring for our Elders

The inaugural Anna & Len Stein Award was recently presented to three members of the nursing team at St. Ann’s Community: Keith Dickeson, certified nursing assistant (CNA), St. Ann’s Home; Susan Hargrave, senior CNA, St. Ann’s Care Center; and Borith Sam, senior CNA, St. Ann’s Home.

February 23, 2022

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The toilet seat of the future

The Heart Seat, a cloud-connected, vital-monitoring toilet seat that will be installed in some Jewish Senior Life apartments this week as part of a clinical study, is featured in a new WHAM segment.

February 23, 2022

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SIT TO YOUR HEART’S CONTENT: New toilet seat to monitor heart health from home

February is American Heart Month, and Jewish Senior Life residents are partnering with home health monitoring company Casana for a trial of their first product, The Heart Seat™, a cloud-connected toilet seat that captures clinically relevant measurements, including heart rate, blood pressure, blood oxygenation, and cardiac output.

February 22, 2022

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Gurwin Residents Receive Valentine's Day Cards From Girl Scouts

Residents of Gurwin Jewish Nursing & Rehabilitation Center received 330 Valentine's Day cards filled with inspirational words, kind thoughts and heartfelt wishes from Islip's Suffolk County Girl Scout Service Unit #44 and art students from Maud S. Sherwood Elementary School.

February 16, 2022
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