Carolyn Della Foresta remembers being a little girl in 1981 when Almonte Country Haven moved into its current site at 333 Country St. in Almonte, Ont., from its previous location at the local hospital. Read more →
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Every day, life enrichment co-ordinator Naomi Redner lives the qualities that make an excellent leader at Almonte Country Haven, says administrator Carolyn Della Foresta. Read more →
Almonte Country Haven team members are seen here after the Lanark County long-term care home received the OLTCA’s Workplace of the Year award.
Almonte Country Haven has been named the Ontario Long Term Care Association’s (OLTCA’s) Workplace of the Year for its commitment to staff engagement, staff recognition and workplace culture. Read more →
Pictured above, just a few examples of the many homemade foods prepared at Almonte Country Haven every day.
If there’s one thing nutritional care manager Dave Benn takes great pride in, it’s the fact that virtually all of the baked goods he and his team serve each day at Almonte Country Haven are made from scratch. Read more →
CALABOGIE, Ont. – One of the major events at OMNI Health Care’s 2017 Quality Forum was the Quest for Quality, an interactive outdoor game designed by the Almonte Country Haven team that combined education, fun and competition. Read more →
Pictured above is the display the Almonte Country Haven team has created to recognize nurses – past and present – during National Nursing Week.
An Almonte Country Haven resident was elated this week when she was presented with a photograph of her from when she graduated nursing school 76 years ago. Read more →
Pictured above: Some of the artwork Almonte Country Haven LEA Mary O’Reilly has been creating on a whiteboard in the home. These drawings are proving to be excellent resident engagement tools.
Almonte Country Haven truly embraced OMNI Health Care’s core value of creativity in 2016 through a variety of initiatives that engaged people inside and outside of the Lanark County long-term care home. Read more →
Pictured above are cherry tomatoes from Almonte Country Haven’s garden. (Photo courtesy of David Hinks/The Millstone. Used by permission)
A chance meeting between Almonte Country Haven administrator Carolyn Della Foresta and local newspaper columnist David Hinks led to the journalist and avid green thumb taking a tour of the home, where he marvelled at its garden and praised the people who created it. Read more →
Creative, meaningful initiatives sparked by ideas from other places
The innovative initiatives introduced by team members at several OMNI Health Care homes this year have this in common: They came about because someone at the home recognized a good idea from somewhere else. Read more →
When Almonte Country Haven personal support worker Debbie Boal recently received a message of appreciation from a resident at the Lanark County long-term care home, she was “deeply touched.” Read more →
