Farmington Community Matters January 2016

Commun ty Matters Farmington Presbyterian Manor

January 2016

Art is Ageless® call for entries underway Farmington Presbyterian Manor has issued a call for entries for the Art is Ageless® juried exhibit to be held Feb. 17-19, 2016. Entries of artistic works will be accepted from any area artist who is 65 years of age or older to exhibit and/or compete for an opportunity to be featured in the 2017 Art is Ageless calendar.

The Art is Ageless® Program encourages Farmington Presbyterian Manor residents and other area seniors to express their creativity.

Having a creative outlet benefits the mind, body and spirit.

“The exhibit and competition always draw a wide array of impressive artwork from talented seniors,” said Heidi Beyer, marketing director.

“We’re expecting this to be another great year for creativity and variety of works on exhibit.”

Local competition winners will join winners 17 other Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America communities to be judged at the systemwide level.

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From left, Shannon Nutter, Angel Wells, Sarah Boland and Jessica Weiss were honored on Nov. 5 at a Career Advancement graduation ceremony at Presbyterian Manor. These four young women completed an eight-month course to become Advanced Care Associates. At their graduation, they received a certificate, gold pin, uniform tops and a new name badge. We are very proud of each one of them for their hard work!

Career advancement program for CNAs Certified nursing assistants, or CNAs, make up a majority of the staff in assisted living and long-term care communities. More than any other staff member, they’re the people most residents interact with every day.

But CNAs also have the highest turnover rate among long-term care employees­—nationally, as high as 85 percent in one year, according to the American Public Health Association.

To combat the trend, administrators at Farmington Presbyterian Manor created the Career Advancement Program for CNAs, said Peggy Bland, director of health care services. The goal is to empower CNA employees to advance in their careers and make sure they feel valued.

“One of my objectives has been to let them know how important they are to our team.You don’t see all the things they do,” Peggy said. “It was CNAs, continued on page 4

Veterans Day breakfast

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Entry forms and information can be picked up at Farmington Presbyterian Manor, 500 Cayce Farmington, or by contacting Beyer at 573-756-6768 or hbeyer@ pmma.org. Or go online to ArtIsAgeless.org to view rules, download an entry form or enter online.

Artists may choose to enter the exhibit only. For the competition, works are to have been completed in the past five years (since January 2011). There are nine categories, as well as designations of amateur or professional. Works to be entered for judging need to be at Presbyterian Manor by Feb. 15, 2016.

Jay and Gladys Sales attended the annual Veteran’s Day Breakfast.

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Farmington Presbyterian Manor Community Matters is published monthly for residents and friends of Farmington Manor by Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America Inc., a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization. Learn more at PresbyterianManors.org Jane Hull, executive director Heidi Beyer, marketing director To submit or suggest articles for this publication, contact hbeyer@pmma.org Telephone: 573-756-6768 Fax: 573-756-6014 Address: 500 Cayce St., Farmington, MO 63640-2910 Our mission: We provide quality senior services guided by Christian values.

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My new beginning Editor’s Note: In a previous newsletter we asked for your stories about new beginnings and how the change altered the course of your life. Resident Ronald L. Perryman sent us this remembrance about his new beginning as a Christian.

Perhaps one of the most important and satisfying parts of my new beginning has to do with my putting an end to the lifestyle that preceded it. For me, it was a 180-degree turnaround—a complete life’s reversal. It was both a very quick and abrupt decision, and a very slow and steady change.

It all began on Sunday, Dec. 7, 1947, six years to the day after the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor.

At that time, I was a mixed-up

teenager, rebellious and without true direction in my life. I have been forever grateful and thankful that I hung out with friends in the neighborhood whose families had a more solid spiritual orientation, and more importantly for me, were both willing and anxious to share it. I was making an abundance of bad choices, was behaving badly, and in my own opinion, was not a nice person. I had very fine, patient, hard-working parents, but there was BEGINNING, continued on page 3

Farmington Presbyterian Manor honored for achievements Jane Hull, executive director, center, accepts an Emerald Certificate from Bruce Shogren, chief executive officer, left, and Bill Taylor, chief operations officer, right, of Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America. Farmington Presbyterian Manor was recognized for achieving a five-star rating from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid and meeting marketing and professional employee growth goals.

Farmington Presbyterian Manor received a certificate of recognition from Presbyterian Manors of MidAmerica for reaching goals in fiscal year 2015, July 1, 2014, through June 30, 2015.

The recognition came through PMMA’s new Emerald Awards Program, designed to encourage its 18 locations to achieve high levels of resident and employee satisfaction, meet financial goals,

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no positive spiritual direction in my home. Through loving and generous neighbors, I had been invited to attend church services with them.

For whatever reason, I had accepted their kind invitations, and had attended for many months prior to that eventful Sunday in 1947. God’s system worked as it was intended to work. The seed was sown, and it took root. I strongly believe that if you do not intend to experience this new beginning in your life, you run

build philanthropic support for the organization’s mission and meet marketing goals. There are 11 areas measured for the Emerald Awards.

achieving a five-star rating from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid and meeting marketing and professional employee growth goals.

To receive an emerald, a community has to meet its goals in all 11 areas.

Certificates of recognition were given out to communities that reached their goals in one or more category.

“This recognition is a visible sign of Farmington Presbyterian Manor’s commitment to the mission of PMMA of providing quality senior services guided by Christian values,” said Bruce Shogren, chief executive officer for PMMA.

Farmington was recognized for

a great risk by allowing the seed to be sown in your heart. It will grow!

This led to my being spiritually “born again,” which gave me the ultimate new beginning.

For more than 68 years, I have enjoyed this new life as a new creation. It brings new family, new friends, new relationships, new values, new priorities, new perspectives, new goals, and especially a new hope for my eternal destination.

Out with the old, and in with the

new! Should there be those who are disturbed or offended that I chose to write of my spiritual new beginning, rather than one of a fleshly nature, I would remind you that, of all of God’s creation, the human is the only one created to give account for his life, or to experience eternity.

In addition, we may or may not have a new beginning in our physical life, which will be terminated at our death. But in our spiritual life, we must experience a new beginning in order to face eternity.

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about giving them an opportunity to feel like they could advance.”

class just graduated in the fall. One of them, Angel Wells, said they all take more pride in their work now.

Over eight months, participants complete four levels of training in everything from nutrition and infection control to residentcentered care. At the end of each level, they receive an hourly raise.

CNAs who complete the program earn a new title, Advanced Care Associate, and receive embroidered uniforms and a pin.

“I feel like other people look up to me now,” Angel said. “And I can teach other people about things I’ve learned.”

Four CNAs are accepted into each term of the program; the second

And Sarah Boland said it was helpful to have the classes right in

Graduate Jessica Weiss echoed that thought. “I feel like I bettered myself, and now I can help my coworkers be better at what they do.”

the workplace, built around their schedules.

Peggy said she thinks the program helps CNAs understand why they do what they do -- and they feel more ownership in their role as a result.

The next class will begin this month.

And, Peggy said, the leadership team would like to expand the advanced training concept to other departments such as dining services and housekeeping.

“We’re making sure we do everything we can to give them what they need,” Peggy said.

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You can hardly turn on the television without being reminded that we are in a presidential election year. We’re looking for residents with a story to tell about a memorable election or voting experience. What motivates you to go to the polls? Did you ever hold public office? What was that like? Did you work on a famous politician’s campaign or meet a famous politician? Tell us your story. If you’ve got a story to share about living out your civic responsibility, contact Marketing Director Heidi Beyer, and your story could be featured in an upcoming edition of Community

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