After making good progress with her physical, occupational, and speech therapy, Virginia, a short term therapy patient, got to go home last Friday just in time for Mother’s Day! She is pictured here with Charlotte Tallent, PTA.
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Elders have been enjoying the warm, sunny weather and their weekly strolls around town. In the last two weeks, they have walked up to Dyer Drug and McWhorters Variety store. While in Dyers, some looked at the beautiful Mothers day gifts on display, while others enjoyed the “slush puppies”. While tasting her slushy, Mary Dean Troxell stated, “I haven’t had one of these slushy’s in years; oh, this tastes so good!” In the Variety store, Elders looked at the colorful and bright displays of Memorial Day flowers, and others just enjoyed browsing and socializing. Upon asking Mintford Kennedy what his favorite thing was about going to McWhorters Variety store he stated, “I got the most pleasure when I gave that little Cross boy (son of Brad & Stacey Cross) some money so he could buy himself a John Deere tractor toy. That did more for me than anything else could today!”
Following a ankle fracture, Nina came to our facility for PT & OT until she was able to return home on her own safely. Happily today she got to go back home! We will miss her terribly!
Elders made tracks with their horses as they celebrated the Kentucky Derby. Each one chose their winning horse, gave it a derby name, then rolled the lucky dice to move their horse along the track. Elders ran four qualifying races, then the winner in each race held a spot for the Kentucky Derby race. Sabrina , granddaughter of two of our Elders, helped us with our races. The four qualifying winners were: Maggie Warriner with “Ranger”; Kathleen Dunson with “Lucky”; Grace Pearcy with “Pretty Good”; Ruby Jene with “Red”. It was a tight race, with a photo finish…And the Winner of the Kentucky Derby ”Run for the Roses” was Maggie Warriner with “Ranger”. Congratulations to everyone!!
Sierra Homan was born on Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina on 9/9/91. She went to school in Sumter, South Carolina until the 5th grade. She moved to Monticello, KY and graduated from Wayne County High School. She went to college at the University of the Cumberlands and is now taking classes for pharmacy tech. She enjoys outdoor activities such as fishing, camping, and hiking. She enjoys crafting, reading, good movies, making videos on her computer, photography and lots of music. Sierra also loves being around animals. She enjoys working summers at a camp for children as a camp counselor. She has an older brother, two older sisters, two nephews and a niece. Right now, she enjoys culinary arts here at Clinton County Care and Rehab. Sierra has been employed with the facility for almost 4 months and we are proud to have Sierra as part of our team!!
Elders donated and planted a Kwanzan Japanese Flowering Cherry tree and a Red Maple tree at Mountain View Park (the local community park). They have been discussing ways of how they can give back to the community and this was one of their ideas. Dorothy Duvall stated, “Everyone that comes to the park will get pleasure from these trees that we planted today!”
Pictured are Elders, Grace Pearcy; Dorothy Duvall; Florence Reitz; Elmer Boykin; Anna Irwin.
In addition to PT/OT/ST services available for all inpatients at our facility, we also offer these services to outpatients as well. Pictured is outpatient Ruby Raines with PT staff Tim Norris, PTA, Charlotte Tallent, PTA/RSM, and Cindy Strang, PT. Ruby recently completed an outpatient program of physical therapy to decrease pain associated with arthritis and improve her mobility.
Our “Green Thumb Club” has been planting a mix of bright flowers in the front yard. Elders enjoyed planting an array of flowers in their two new planter boxes that Steve Hardin,Plant Director, made for them which are wheelchair accessible, thanks to the idea by Elder Ms. Dorothy Duvall. Ms. Dorothy loves to plant flowers at the Home every year. She had help planting the flowers from Elders, Ms. Phyllis and Ms. Florence Reitz, and staff, Kristen McGaw, Activity Assistant; Regina Abbott, OT; Vickie Basham, OT; and Michelle Shelton, QOL Director.
Fifteen Elders participated in a Spelling Bee Competition at the Home on April 23rd. Each had been studying up to a week, some even daily, for the contest. The competition lasted about 2 hours before we could award trophies to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners. 1st place was awarded to Ms. Grace Pearcy, 2nd place went to Ms. Mary Dean Troxell, and 3rd place was awarded to Mr. Jimmie Thrasher. Congratulations to all Elders for competiting in the Spelling Bee; everyone is a Winner!!
On April 24, Signature HealthCARE of Columbia broke the World Record for longest wheelchair race, with 205 wheelchairs. The record was previously held by the Christopher Reeve Foundation, with 193 wheelchairs. Local radio station WXRQ was on hand broadcasting live from the parade, and WSMV-TV (channel 4) featured the event on its six o’clock newscast. The Columbia Daily Herald also published a front-page article.
To read the newspaper article, visit the newspaper’s website. For WSMV coverage, see below.