Featured Member
 
 Hebrew Health Care (West Hartford, CT)

 

We are very proud to announce that our Featured Member for the month of October is Hebrew Health Care.

To read more about Hebrew Health Care, click here.  
 
Please visit their website: www.hebrewhealthcare.org  
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Upcoming Events


 

AJAS Reception at LeadingAge

 

Monday, October 20, 2014

5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Omni Nashville Hotel

Room: Cumberland 5 - 6   

 

Send RSVP to rachel@ajas.org 

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Hebrew Home at Riverdale (Riverdale, NY): How the Arts Enrich Seniors' Lives

  

The Hebrew Home at Riverdale is prominently featured in the current issue of Leading Age Magazine.  The article entitled "The Arts Enrich Seniors' Lives,"  features their robust therapeutic arts program.

 
    


Click here to read more! 

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Menorah Park (Cleveland, OH):
Success Attained Through Fun Fitness Challenge
  
Menorah Park's Peter B. Lewis Aquatic and Therapy Center (LAC) staff decided to pose a challenge to the center's Health Maintenance participants: Do you have what it takes to race across America? Thirty two individuals said "yes" to the 2,700 mile event.
 
 

 

 Click here to read more and see photo descriptions!  

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Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital (Baltimore, MD): 
Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital Receives Grant from the Bank of America Charitable Foundation for Career Coach Services  
 
The career coach position was launched last year in an effort to recruit and train area residents become geriatric nursing assistants (GNAs). The career coach also guides the employees and helps them set career and life goals.



 Click here to read more!   
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  River Garden Senior Services (Jacksonville, FL): Awarded Unprecedented 7th Gold Seal 

  

River Garden Senior Services was recognized with a 7th Florida Governor's Gold Seal Award for Excellence in Long-Term Care. Of the more than 650 nursing homes in Florida, River Garden is the only skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility to earn this distinction seven consecutive times, and the only agency in Duval County to ever earn the Gold Seal Award.

  

 

  

 Click here to read more and see photo descriptions!      

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Sitrin (New Hartford, NY): Mohawk American Legion Post 25 Donates $10,000 to Sitrin's Military Rehabilitation Program

Mohawk's Crowley-Barnum American Legion Post 25 generously donated $10,000 to Sitrin's Stars & Stripes Run-Walk, which they raised through an event held on August 23.  

  

 
  Click here to read more and see photo descriptions! 
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Tulsa Jewish (Tulsa, OK): New Building Open


The Scott F. Zarrow Town Center features a café, a movie theater, an art studio, a multi-purpose "Great Room", and much more. The Town Center serves as a one-stop resource center for TJRHC residents, their families, and others in the greater Tulsa community who are interested in participating in Life Enrichment programs.



Click here to read more!
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 Morrison Senior Living Enhances Residents' Dining Experience


 Since the 1920 Opening of Morrison's Cafeteria in Mobile, Alabama by James Arthur Morrison, the company has continually looked for ways to elevate the dining experience.

  

 

 

Click here to read more  

Menorah Manor (St. Petersburg, FL) Does the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge!
 

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Kavod Senior Life (Denver, CO) is "Happy"!


Happy at Kavod Senior Life!
Happy at Kavod Senior Life!



Several new jobs have been posted recently on the AJAS careers page; visit 


Want to see your community's events and programs featured on the AJAS website?   
Send articles, events, videos and artwork to Rachel Stevens at rachel@ajas.org   


 
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