January Spotlight: Celebrating Our Kitchen Crew
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Sprain Brook Manor, and our sister facility, Adira at Riverside Rehabilitation, are both FINALISTS for the 2019 Eli Pick Facility Leadership Award. This is a huge honor, as only 7% of facilities nationwide qualify.
Congratulations to all the finalists and thank you to ACHCA for this exciting honor.
From the ACHCH Website
Eligibility Requirements:
Congratulations to Sprain Brook Manor Rehab‘s administrator, Akiva Fried and to Eric Fischbein, Adminstrator of Adira at Riverside. Your leadership has made this possible for our facilities.
Happy New Year and welcome to 2019! Sprain Brook Manor’s recreation team has put together a fantasic program for our patients and residents. Whether they’re here for short term cardiac rehab or long memory care, there’s always something fun to do at our centrally located westchester rehab facility. Our creative staff has come up with a boatload of interactive and stimulating activities for our patients and residents to participate in. You can always find the main activities calendar on our website but because we have different needs on each of the floors, JC and his team create a separate program for each level.
We hope you and your loved ones have a blessed, peaceful and healthy 2019!
This week our patients and residents were treated to several visits by local youngsters. We had two days of performances by the students from Scarsdale’s Seely Place School. They came to Sprain Brook Manor and regaled our seniors with some classic holiday songs. The Christmas season can be a lonely time for some, especially when friends and family don’t live nearby, and this week’s performances by these adorable young people brightened the days for everyone at Sprain Brook Manor.
The fun didn’t stop there because we also had a visit from School 32 in Yonkers. Several students, along with Mr. & Mrs. Clause spent the morning doing crafts, singing, dancing and visiting patients in their rooms. During the holidays, much energy and money is spent on choosing what presents to buy or which stores to shop in. However, the children who visited us this week, shared the greatest gifts of all–their smiles, attention and laughter.
Surely, there is no greater gift.
Many thanks to the students, their teachers and families for spreading holiday cheer in our little neck of the woods. If you would like to see the full photo album, please visit our Facebook page.
At Sprain Brook Manor, we provide personalized service and do our best to keep life at Sprain as engaging and interesting as possible. That includes our activities program. JC, our Director of Recreation, and his team, provide a rich program that differs from floor to floor. Our 121 bed facility is filled with a diverse population who hail from various cultures, religions and backgrounds, therefore we offer programs that have a wide range of appeal. JC and his team put together a different calendar of activities for each of our patient and resident floors. Our second floor, which offers 40 beds, is for our short-term rehab patients. Many of these activities take place in our main dining room on the first floor of the facility but will sometimes take place in the 2nd floor day room. Our third floor, which holds 41 beds, is a locked unit for our dementia and Alzheimers patients. This calendar is specifically designed for memory impaired adults.
Our 4th floor is our long-term, nursing care population and these full-time residents call Sprain Brook Manor home.
This week as part of our Getting-to-Know-You-series we would like to introduce you to our new Resident Council President, Joan McCarthy. Joan is a NYC girl, born and raised. After she graduated high school, Joan went to work for Con Edison and spent the majority of her 42 years there as a computer operator. Her extended family, a network of nieces and nephews, keeps her spirit young. Joan is 87 years old and this feisty woman has been resident of Sprain Brook Manor for almost fourteen years. She initially served as Vice President and when the top spot opened up, Joan stepped into the challenge. The Resident Council plays an important role here at Sprain Brook Manor and advocates for our patients and residents. Over the past several years, she’s seen many people come and go and has witnessed multiple changes. One of the benefits of serving on the council is that she can assure that her voice is heard. “I have a very good life here. I don’t have to worry about the doctor, dentist or the foot doc. Everything is here that I need. If it’s not here…I get very good help to get out there.” We love you, Joan and look forward to the next 14 years!