Manor of the Plains Community Matters November 2017

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Manor of the Plains Senior Olympics competition participants join together on Sept. 22.

Senior Olympians bring home the hardware Manor of the Plains residents made a great showing at this year’s Senior Olympics competition in Cimarron!

We had several winners at the Sept.

22 event: John Brent: 2nd place, cornhole; 3rd place, target tennis Vernice Lutz: 2nd place, hula football; 3rd place, cornhole Tony Indiek: 1st place, cornhole Josie Mercado: 1st place, pie building contest Dean Snodgrass: 1st place, target tennis; 2nd place, hula football Congratulations to our Olympians!

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Heart and Soul Hospice recognize Hopsice month November is National Hospice Month, and to recognize the importance of hospice services to quality end of life care, Presbyterian Manor’s Heart and Soul Hospice would like to share Clayton’s story.

It was not long after Clayton was diagnosed with a life limiting illness that he was told that curative treatment was no longer an option. Clayton quickly made the decision to seek hospices services. At first, Clayton thought hospice was a way to avoid burdening his family with his illness.

Clayton soon began to understand that by deciding to utilize hospice, he had put together a supportive team for himself and his entire family.

Together, Clayton, his family, and the hospice team created a plan of care that included Clayton’s medical needs as well as emotional and spiritual needs for himself and his family.

Clayton’s wishes are prioritized. Clayton is not a fan of baseball, but his family loves the game. Clayton’s wish was to have a baseball party for his entire family. The hospice team helped him make that happen. That day there was baseball, air hockey, and a room filled with family, laughter and smiles. Clayton beat most of us at the air hockey challenges!

Clayton has been with hospice since June and is still facing terminal illness with no cure. But, with his hospice team’s focus on providing medical care and emotional support that enhances his quality of life, Clayton has had more good days to be able to make memories with his

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loved ones.

For information about hospice services available at Manor of the Plains, contact social services at

Community Matters is published monthly for residents and friends of Manor of the Plains by Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America, Inc., a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization. Learn more at PresbyterianManors.org.

Jerry Korbe, executive director Kurt Lampe, marketing director Lisa Montoya, activity director Jacque Soltero, health care activity director

620-682-4059.

Learn more at:

Heart and Soul Hospice is based in Farmington, Mo., and Wichita, Kan., and is a proud member of the Presbyterian Manor of Mid America Family.

316-652-6212 HeartAndSoulHospice.com wichitahospice@pmma.org

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Award makes a dent in nurse’s student debt Mayra Ascencio wasn’t sure she was going to get any further with her nursing education. While pursuing her pre-requisites and LPN certification, Mayra had accumulated thousands of dollars in student loan debt. Her own daughters were starting college.

The bills looked insurmountable.

Then Mayra heard about an education assistance program to help employees at Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America pay off loans. She recently learned that her application was accepted.

“I am so grateful. There’s no words,” said Mayra, who works in the health care neighborhood at Manor of the Plains. “They’re probably never going to know how much it means to us.”

A large portion of Mayra’s loans will be paid off thanks to the assistance program. That’s a huge relief to her as a single mom now putting her own girls through school. Her older daughter graduated from the University of Kansas in May, and the other is an engineering major at KU.

grandmother’s. Mayra’s mother was a nurse in Mexico.

Mayra became a CMA in 2006, and it took her 10 years to graduate from nursing school.

Her debt load grew quickly when she was required to be a full-time student, leaving little time to work. “I never really knew how hard it was going to be. I never knew I was going to get that far, little by little, passing one class and passing the next.”

With a large amount of her debt paid off, Mayra hopes return to school sooner for advanced training. She’s happy to give back to Manor of Plains after being given so much. “It makes my goals seem a little closer.”

However, Mayra has always believed in the power of education and the benefit it brings to the world at large. She told her daughters that college was mandatory; their only choice was what to study. “I’m one of those people who annoys everybody around them, telling them to go to school,” she said. “It’s possible if you work hard for what you want. I wanted it really bad, and I wanted to show the girls that they can, so when they went to college they didn’t have an excuse.”

It’s been about a year and a half since Mayra started working at Manor of the Plains -- and Mayra was the first person in her she loves it. Providing end-offamily to earn a post-secondary life comfort care is especially degree, and her daughter is the meaningful to her, because her first to graduate from a university own mother was in a coma for -- with a bachelor of science in several years before her death. nursing, following in both her mother’s career footsteps and her “When I take care of residents, I Like us on Facebook

want to make sure that the care is provided not just for resident but also the family,” she said.

Mayra Ascencio thanks Manor of the Plains education assistance program for helping her achieve her educational dreams and pay off student loans.

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From left to right: Senior Olympics winners John Brent, Tony Indiek Dean Snodgrass pose with their gold, silver and bronze medals.

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