Homes toast their fathers

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Maplewood, Pleasant Meadow host Father’s Day socials

Spirits were both high and being served this past Father’s Day at two OMNI Health Care homes.

Maplewood in Brighton and Pleasant Meadow Manor in Norwood toasted their male residents by hosting Father’s Day social events on June 17.

Maplewood ran a Baileys Father’s Day social, inviting residents and their family members to gather for a visit over a cup of Baileys Irish Cream.

“It’s a crowd favourite,” says Rachel Corkery, administrator and life enrichment co-ordinator (LEC) at Maplewood.

Sixteen of the home’s 49 residents are male and the majority of them are fathers. The event was inclusive. “We celebrated all of our men,” she notes.

The Brighton home hosts a social event every Sunday and encourages all family members to join their loved ones for a casual visit.

Meanwhile, Pleasant Meadow Manor also honoured its men this past Father’s Day. The home hosted a Father’s Day pub, which included drinks and munchies.

“Anyone that wanted to come join their dad was able to come in,” Chris Garden, LEC, tells The OMNIway.

In the small dining room, residents and family members gathered for alcoholic and non-alcoholic beer, deli meat and cheese and crackers. “It was a little bit more of a guys’ menu.”

She says the home has about 25 male residents.

Each year Pleasant Meadow Manor hosts a Father’s Day Pub and a Mother’s Day tea in recognition of their residents.

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Volunteers revamp Streamway Villa’s garden during Day of Caring

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Residents can enjoy new flowers and a freshly painted picnic table, thanks to volunteers from SABIC

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Petting zoo gets Streamway Villa residents reminiscing

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Goats, a pony and an alpaca get residents talking about their farming days

Streamway Villa residents and staff members had a visit recently from Kristie’s Little Portable Petting Zoo, a travelling animal handler, which brought goats, a pony and an alpaca, an animal native to South America that’s similar to a llama, to the Cobourg long-term care home. Read more →

Students get Frost Manor maintenance department ‘sorted’ out

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St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Secondary School students Andrew Coons (left) and Nick Jeffrey (centre) sort through a box of nuts, bolts and other hardware at Frost Manor on June 13 as educational assistant Fred Hobbs looks on.

Nick Jeffrey and Andrew Coons have been organizing hardware, which is making maintenance department more efficient

A few weeks ago, the maintenance room at Frost Manor was overflowing with nuts, bolts, washers, nails and brackets, packed to the hilt in boxes and disorganized. Read more →

Fresh-baked buns wowing Country Terrace residents

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Country Terrace nutritional care manager Alex Achillini is seen here rolling out dough to make fresh, from-scratch dinner rolls.

Every Wednesday the nutritional care team is baking fresh dinner rolls for residents, and the residents are loving it

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EDITORIAL: Redeveloped homes will help OMNI better serve local communities

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This spring, OMNI Health Care was awarded funding from the province to build a new Riverview Manor and renovate three of its other long-term care homes – Pleasant Meadow Manor, Almonte Country Haven and Woodland Villa. Construction on the four projects will start in fall 2019 and will be completed by December 2022.

What’s especially exciting about these announcements – and welcomed by OMNI Health Care – is the fact that the four redevelopment projects will also help the smaller communities these homes serve.

The majority of OMNI’s 18 long-term care homes are in small towns and villages. OMNI has always valued the fact that most of its homes are small and located in rural communities because having such homes creates a cozy environment for residents to live and staff members to work.

Having homes in these towns and villages also means people who have lived in these communities don’t have to move to larger centres, should they require long-term care.

The funding announcements included a combined 102 additional beds to the four homes. The new Riverview Manor in Peterborough will have 160 beds, 36 more than it currently has. Almonte Country Haven, located in Mississippi Mills, will be increased from 82 beds to 96. In Norwood, Pleasant Meadow Manor will see an increase from 61 to 96 beds. Woodland Villa in Long Sault will go from 111 beds to 128.

But the renovations will provide more than just an increased number of beds.

Hallways and doors will be wider, and three- and four-bed wards will be replaced with rooms with no more than two beds. Once complete, these homes will also be divided into neighbourhoods, housing groups of up to 32 people. As a result, residents will be sharing dining, bathing and other common areas with fewer people to enhance their living experience.

To put it another way, the future of long-term care will be coming to these four homes. It’s a future that will help ensure that the people who built these communities have access to the care they need with the amenities they require to have the best quality of life possible.

It’s a future OMNI is excited about.

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Frost Manor hosts party to celebrate resident Vi Quibell’s 104th birthday

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Frost Manor resident Vi Quibell is joined by her grandson, Jeff Tompkins, during her 104th birthday celebration at the Lindsay long-term care home on June 5.

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Bonnie Windover, OMNI’s longest-serving employee, retires after 41 years

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Bonnie Windover, who served Springdale Country Manor residents for 41 years, retired May 31. Bonnie is seen here during the celebration her colleagues at the Peterborough-area long-term care home hosted in her honour.

Springdale Country Manor honours longtime nurses’ aide on her last day on the job

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Streamway Villa residents engaged in the issues ahead of election day

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Candidate Lou Rinaldi meets with residents, and residents’ council and current events program helped inform everyone

Streamway Villa team members and residents collaborated to help educate people living at the Cobourg long-term care home on the issues surrounding the June 7 Ontario election to help them make informed decisions. Read more →