Concert in Care – May 3rd at 10:30 am
You are invited to join with residents for this beautiful professional concert! No admission cost.
Tuesday, May 3rd at 10:30am in the Menno Hospital Chapel
Julian Nolan, Saxophone
Jane Hayes, Piano
Family and Friends Network – April 21
Come and join us to discover how family and friends can be supported and involved in residents’ lives at Menno Home and Hospital.
Thursday, April 21st, 2016
1:30 – 2:30pm
Menno Hospital Chapel
We are looking forward to seeing you!
Facilitators:
Dan Janzen – Social Worker
Ruth Neufeld – Social Services
Refresh. Renew. Renovate – Updates: Home and Hospital
This spring, two areas of the Menno Place campus will be receiving updates – Menno Home E2 and Menno Hospital W2. These are the first updates to happen as we continue to move away from an institutionalized feeling in our care homes.
Menno Home E2 will be the initial pilot project for these updates – fresh paint, updates to the decor and new furniture throughout will help to create a homelike feel. A homelike environment is one that de-emphasizes the institutional character of the setting, to the extent possible, and allows the resident to enjoy the environment that feels like a home rather than an institution.
New dining room furniture is arriving for both Menno Home E2 and Menno Hospital W2 at the end of April!
Some good practices that serve to decrease the institutional character of the environment include:
* Elimination of overhead paging and piped-in music throughout the building
* Eliminating the use of trays to serve meals
* Removal of institutional signage labeling work rooms in areas visible to residents and the public
* Reduction of medication carts. Some innovative facilities store medications in locked areas in resident rooms
* Removal of large, centrally located nursing/care team stations
Changes in our older buildings can be challenging as the physical layout of the units creates obstacles to the homelike environment.
Last year, Menno Place partnered with Emily Carr University of Art and Design to begin the conversation with families, residents and staff around changes to the physical environment and increasing the emphasis on person-centered care.
Look forward to updates on this project as we continue to work toward a homelike environment.
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Recreation Highlights for March
Menno Home
March 10 – Music with Nick Klassen
March 17 – St. Patrick’s day party
March 24 – Easter party with Paska
Hospital
March15 – St. Patrick’s Day with Shawn Mckee
March 17 – Irish dancers
March 24 – Resident and staff Easter egg hunt
March31 – Rock Show
Family and Friends Network – March 17
Come and join us to discover how family and friends can be supported and involved in residents’ lives at Menno Home and Hospital.
Thursday, March 17th, 2016
1:30 – 2:30pm
Menno Hospital Chapel
We are looking forward to seeing you!
Facilitators:
Dan Janzen – Social Worker
Ruth Neufeld – Social Services
“Like” us on Facebook – Menno Place Life
Facebook – Menno Place Life
Menno Place on Facebook is an engaging and encouraging source of information and inspiration, including the popular Joy Jumps that are published every Friday.
It is an amazing privilege to bring joy-filled moments to seniors at the Menno Place campus everyday. Our Joy Jumps remind us that we are a conduit of joy for the 700 seniors who call Menno Place their home.
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Concert in Care – March 1
Every month, we sponsor a Concert in Care. In March, we hosted Columbian guitarist David Sossa Fernández.
The next Concert in Care will take place Tuesday, April 5 at 10:30am in the Menno Hospital Chapel.
Colombian guitarist David Sossa Fernández has performed as soloist in more than 200 recitals across Canada, USA, Mexico, Cuba, Colombia, and Ecuador. He is also a chamber musician, participating with other artists locally and internationally in both live and recorded performance. David holds a Master of Music degree in Guitar Performance from The University of British Columbia having received numerous scholarships throughout his studies and career. He has recorded a solo album, released in 2010. He is a faculty member at the BC Conservatory of Music. David plays on a 2013 Joshia de Jonge guitar.
Tuesday, March 1 at 10:30am in the Menno Hospital Chapel
No Admission cost.
This event is made possible by Menno Hospital, Odlum Brown and Health Arts Society.
Menno Place Alerts – Subscribe now
Menno Place now has a real-time alert system that can be used to communicate with families and friends in the event of an emergency or flu outbreak.
Three ways to receive alerts:
- Email notifications – daily at 8am as the information is posted. No updates if there is no new information.
- Webpage – real-time updates on www.MennoPlace.ca/Alerts
- Twitter account – @MennoPlaceAlert – real-time updates via Twitter
Thank you to a family member who used our Compliments and Concerns online form to request real-time information about the Flu Outbreaks on the campus. She said,
You are all exemplary. We appreciate all the multi levels of care that are given to our loved ones. So this is not a complaint, just an observation. I just think it would be beneficial to all families if the caregivers could be notified immediately in the event of any outbreaks (a simple form email would do). Then the caregivers in turn could choose to whom they would pass on the information.
Upon receiving this suggestion, we began to create a system that would update family members in a timely fashion, while providing education on what to do with and for a loved one.
A new Twitter account @MennoPlaceAlert and webpage was launched to convey information about flu outbreaks. This same communication system will also be used to send emails when a new update is available.
Along with information about flu outbreaks, this new communication stream will be used to provide real-time updates in the case of emergency. In the case of a fire, earthquake, safety concern or power outage, you will be able to find pertinent information through the Menno Place Alert system.
How can you sign up?
In February, all subscribers to the Menno Place Family & Friends email newsletter will receive an invitation to also sign up for the @MennoPlaceAlerts
Prayer for Caregivers
February 11th is World Day of the Sick, an observation started by Pope John Paul II in 1992 to encourage people to pray for those who suffer from illness and for their caregivers. The Pope was diagnosed the year prior with Parkinson’s. This was likely an impetus for his designation of this day.
Pray for the sick.
SHARE this caregiver prayer with all who are extending themselves in love and mercy to care for others
Ernie Poignant, 97-year old cartoonist from Primrose Gardens shows no signs of putting down sketch pad
Ernie Poignant is celebrating his 97th birthday by doing what he loves – drawing.
Born in a Matsqui farmhouse a few months after the First World War started, Ernie still has a steady hand and an eye for wildlife.
Back in the sixties, he used to draw for kids on the Pete’s Place TV show that aired on Global BC – then called CHAN channel 8 on that old rotary dial.
“He’d have me come up, and one of the things I’d draw [was] a snowball coming down the hill.”
His cartoons are living history – he has documented epic Fraser Valley events like the great flood of 1948.
Ernie has been married to Rose Poignant for over 60 years – but she didn’t fall just for the art.
“I thought he was good-looking, and I was looking for a good-looking man,” said Rose, “and a nice man too. And he was both.”
Ernie’s trademark is taking someone’s initials and making them special – even the initials T.F. turn into Ted and a bear.
