by Megan Streng | Mar 10, 2020 | News
Message from the President/CEO Each week the Life Enrichment staff assist a long term care resident to Face Time with her nephew who lives out of state. Though usually quiet, when she is Facetiming with her nephew she is talkative and smiling. For another resident,...
by Megan Streng | Mar 10, 2020 | News
Tai Chi is such a popular program at The Warm Friend for the past two years that they are now adding an advanced class. Our Warm Friend activity coordinator is a certified Tai Chi Easy Practice Leader and leads three classes a week for residents. “Warm Friend...
by Megan Streng | Mar 10, 2020 | News
One of the many volunteer opportunities at Resthaven are friendly one-to-one visitors. These volunteers offer friendship and companionship to an individual resident when they visit one of our facilities. The goal of these one-to-one visits is to create a friendship...
by Megan Streng | Feb 4, 2020 | News
Resthaven prides ourselves in looking for leaders from within. This has been Lina Jacob’s experience with Resthaven and a primary reason why she has worked here for 18 years. Now, Lina is the Director of Nursing at the Care Center, but she began as a Certified Nursing...
by Megan Streng | Feb 4, 2020 | News
Rev. Leigh Boelkins Van Kempen “There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of us all…” (Ephesians 4: 4-6a) Seventy-five years ago, when Resthaven began, it...
by Megan Streng | Feb 4, 2020 | News
As a faith-based organization, Resthaven knows the importance of caring for the spiritual wellbeing of all our residents. Our chaplain services often partner with other organizations to support residents from all faith backgrounds. We work with some wonderful...
