LONG-TERM CARE
A new position, homemaker,
will focus on the nutritional
needs of residents.
MARK
your calendar! It’s party
time at MeadowView Terrace,
Halifax Regional Health System’s
(HRHS) long-term care afliate in
Clarksville.
On Sunday, January 16, 2 to
4 p.m., the community is invited to
celebrate the opening of two new
households—as well as the facility’s
10th anniversary.
“We are looking forward to
introducing the community to
Honeysuckle Lodge and Periwinkle
Cottage,” says Administrator Betty
DeOrnellas. “And the fact that
January is also our 10th anniversary
makes it doubly exciting.”
Household changes
Since the November 2009 ground-
breaking, construction followers have
watched the two new households take
shape, and now the job is done.
Funded in part by grants from the
Tobacco Commis-
sion Economic
Development
Fund, the Tobacco
Commission Re-
gion Opportunity
Fund and the American Recovery
and Reinvestment Act–Community
Development Block Grant, Meadow-
View Terrace’s 30-bed expansion
includes two separate household
additions.
Honeysuckle Lodge,
a 12-bed
addition with living, dining, kitchen
and activity spaces, has joined part
of the existing Finch Lane, creating
a 30-bed household and reducing
the previous 60-bed Finch Lane to a
42-resident neighborhood.
Periwinkle Cottage
is an 18-bed,
self-contained, memory-support
household for residents with Al-
zheimer’s disease and related forms
of dementia.
“As the number of residents liv-
ing together and the staf working
together becomes smaller, a sense of
family develops and the staf is bet-
ter able to respond to spontaneous
needs and desires of the residents,”
says Connie Zamora,
director of long-term
care services for
HRHS. “Tis sup-
ports the resident-
directed care the staf
of MeadowView Terrace prides itself
on and gives us a wonderful oppor-
tunity to introduce a new position
created to support this philosophy.”
Style and substance
Both new households will have a
homemaker: a certifed nursing assis-
tant who has also received ServSafe
certifcation in sanitation and food
handling through a course devel-
oped by the National Restaurant
Association. Te homemaker will be
responsible for the nutritional needs
of the residents and for managing
the household’s kitchen, pantry and
dining room. He or she will plan
food-related activities, such as baking
cookies or making soup, and will
provide input into each resident’s
plan of care.
Te design of the new households
blends with the current structure
and includes numerous outdoor
spaces, such as porches, patios and
courtyards with therapeutic gardens
and walking paths. An abundance
of windows admits natural light
throughout, creating an environ-
ment that enhances quality of life for
each resident.
“Te design supports dignity,
choice and self-determination, all
essential to the philosophy of res-
ident-directed care,” Zamora says.
“We are looking forward to January
16 and welcoming the community
to our open house, where they
can see the new households, tour
the entire facility, meet the staf
and the residents and enjoy some
refreshments.”
O P E N H O U S E
Come
celebrate
with us
Coming together nicely.
Beginning in late October and early November,
cabinetry and paint made its way into the new resident rooms of
MeadowView Terrace’s expansion project.
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