Clay Center Community Matters - May 2022

Clay Center Presbyterian Manor

We rise MAY 2022

Celebrating Nurse’s Week with our nurses at Clay Center Presbyterian Manor

Picture left to right: Jessica Lippe, Kathy Palmer, Michelle Alquist, Kelly Otott

MEET OUR NURSING STAFF Christina McKale, LPN/Assisted Living Nurse obtained LPN in 2016, and recently started at CCPM in December 2021. She became a nurse, and always wanted to become a hospice nurse, because she wanted to help those in need. What she loves about being a nurse at CCPM is the small knit community that treats residents and staff like family.

Michelle Alquist, RN, RAC-CT, Health Services Supervisor has been a nurse for 25 years and with the Manor for six years. She enjoys being a part

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Editor’s Note: In a nod to our Presbyterian heritage, we regularly feature a column from a PMMA® chaplain in our newsletter. This month’s column comes from Rev. Dinah Dutta, chaplain at Lawrence Presbyterian Manor® The month of May brings memories of the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. Dinah Dutta military.

Memorial Day 2022 will occur on Monday, May 30.

Many of our resident friends are sharing their thoughts and experiences of World War II since the war against Ukraine started.

As a chaplain and pastor when I counsel people I hear a lot of anxiety and fear. Many wonder if there will be a World War III. While we are getting ready to start a new normal after COVID, we are plunged into a different situation.

How can we cope with all this?

As a Christian believer, my faith encourages me to trust in the risen Christ and remember His word: “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor

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Kelly Otott, Health Services Supervisor has been a nurse for 25 years. Kelly has recently started at the Manor and her favorite part has been putting a smile on a resident’s face whether by caring for them or just taking a moment to sit down and talk to them.

Jessica Lippe, Director of Nursing has been a nurse since 2004. She became a nurse because she liked caring for people. She joined CCPM in 2011 and has always enjoyed hearing the residents’ stories.

Kathy Palmer, Health Services RN has been at the Manor since 2003.

She wanted to become a nurse because she always wanted to be a helping hand to others. She loves working as a nurse at CCPM

because she gets to know each resident and their family.

Londa Baker, Health Services LPN has been at the Manor since 2015.

She started volunteering in high school at a nursing home and realized she enjoyed taking care of people. Her favorite part of being a part of the CCPM community is that she gets to care for residents while also enjoying a good support system of coworkers. u

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is published monthly for residents and friends of Clay Center Presbyterian Manor

by Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America, Inc., a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization.

To submit or suggest articles: dkuhlman@pmma.org Dani Kuhlman, marketing director Amy Hoch Altwegg, executive director

OUR MISSION: To provide quality senior services guided by Christian values.

Sharing the PATH® to recovery Our specialized rehab therapy program helps seniors get back to their lives and the Aegis Therapy team serves an important role. The therapists and nurses at Aegis are ready to help you find your PATH® to recovery, so you can recover quickly and return home.

Our team members have a passion and dedication for helping patients restore their health and independence and a couple of seniors are sharing their success: Jean Hamey came in for a stay following a hip surgery. She really appreciated how much the staff seemed to care about her well-being. Russ and Laura were extraordinary and helped her get strong enough to be able to go home. She is already planning on coming back if her knee surgery gets approved in the next year or so. She truly couldn't say enough great things about her stay at Clay Center Presbyterian Manor.

Jean Hamey was very happy with the care she received from the PATH team.

Joy Windscheffel came in after falling at home and having a hospital stay. Her goal was to get back to being able to swim every day. It was very important to restore her body to be healthy and active again.

Everyone on the Aegis Therapy team was a vital part of her success. u

Joy Windscheffel was pleased that her PATH team helped her resume her physical activity.

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I rise.

We rise – continued from page 1 principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 8:35, 38-39, NKJV).

My dear PMMA family, I want to encourage that no matter what goes around us we will rise. While I think of what it means to rise Maya Angelou’s encouraging poem, “I Rise” comes to my mind that I want to share with you. Let us continue to rise with hope, let us continue to remember those who sacrificed their lives to build this great nation. Let us Rejoice and Be Glad!

Happy Memorial Day! Welcome Summer! u

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by Maya Angelou

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise.

You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?

Why are you beset with gloom?

‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells Pumping in my living room.

Does my sexiness upset you?

Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I’ve got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history’s shame I rise Up from a past that’s rooted in pain I rise I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave.

I rise I rise I rise.

Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I’ll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?

Bowed head and lowered eyes?

Shoulders falling down like teardrops.

Weakened by my soulful cries.

Does my haughtiness offend you?

Don’t you take it awful hard ‘Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines Diggin’ in my own back yard.