From time to time, jewelry is found on the Menno Place campus. Despite our attempts to connect with the rightful owner, we have not always been successful. Jewelry is kept in a safe waiting for its owner to claim it. If you have lost a piece of jewelry, please call 604-851-4004 to describe it. Please call us before April 30th. After that date, we will dispose of any jewelry that is unclaimed.
We are pleased to announce that Cheryl Dawes has accepted the position of Manager, Community Enrichment in the Apartments. She will oversee both the Assisted Living and Independent Living needs in our Apartments – 350 residents. Cheryl reports to Sharon Simpson, Director of Community Enrichment.
Cheryl has most recently worked as the Resident Experience Partner at Sienna Senior Living, developing the strategy and overseeing the implementation of Policy and Procedure for 8 residential care communities in Fraser Health and Interior Health. Prior to that role, Cheryl was the General Manager of Cascade Lodge, Campus of Care (including Hospice) in Chilliwack, BC. Cheryl brings years of experience in both managing Assisted Living and Hospice Care. Cheryl is an LPN.
We look forward to her wealth of experience and leadership as she helps us to meet and exceed the needs of seniors living in Independent / Supportive Living as well as Private-Pay Assisted Living and Fraser Health subsidized Assisted Living.
Cheryl starts on February 24th with an orientation week. Please give her a warm welcome as she orients herself to the campus, the seniors who live here and the staff who are the Heart of Menno Place!
During Flu Season (December through March), all visitors at Menno Home, Hospital, and Terrace East must wear a mask or have the flu vaccination.
At all sign-in areas, you will find a badge to wear. For one-time visits, there are stick-on badges for you to indicate that you’ve had a flu shot or that you are choosing to wear a mask. Masks are also available at the sign-in area.
For frequent visitors, you can choose a clip-on badge which you can keep. A pink badge indicates that you have had a flu shot. A green badge indicates that you have not had a flu shot and are electing to wear a mask.
Thank you for protecting your family and friends at Menno Home from the spread of influenza!
As of today, Wednesday, December 4, the Fraser Health Influenza Control Program Policy is in effect at Menno Home, Menno Hospital and Terrace East, Assisted Living.
Influenza causes the most deaths among vaccine-preventable diseases, outpacing all others combined. Each year in Canada approximately 3,500 people die from the flu and its complications. Hospitalized patients and seniors in residential care are usually more vulnerable than healthy adults.
To help protect this vulnerable population and the people who care for them, in 2012 Fraser Health implemented the Influenza Control Program Policy, which required health care workers and visitors to get the flu vaccine or to wear a mask in all patient care areas during flu season.
Fraser Health is implementing its Influenza Control Program Policy, effective Wednesday, December 4th, 2019. This policy requires that all staff and visitors, who have not received a flu shot, are required to wear a surgical mask when they are in the “resident care areas” (which means any area within Menno Home, Hospital and Assisted Living that is accessible to the residents who live here).
Masks will be available at the Nursing desks on each unit and the front entrances at Menno Home and Hospital. For Assisted Living, masks will be available at the front entrance.
Your participation for the health and safety of our residents will be required and greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
The Infection Prevention and Control Committee at Menno Place
After this week’s unusually cold weather, there are a lot of heroes that deserve praise for going beyond the call of duty. Frontline staff in hospitals and first responders, as well as the municipal staff who maintain our roads come to mind. But it is the staff who work in our long-term care, assisted living and independent living sites – in addition to home support workers out in the community and braving the snowy conditions – that we would like to recognize as well.
Whether you are a care aide or nurse, a cook preparing meals, housekeeping staff or a maintenance worker, we owe you our gratitude for taking care of our elderly loved ones.
There are so many stories we hear about that indicate the dedication and compassion people working in the seniors living and wellness sector exhibit every day. When the going gets tough as it has this week, it is remarkable how many great people step up.
At the Menno Place campus of care, it was a struggle for many to navigate the treacherous roadways to get into work. Abbotsford, like so many Fraser Valley communities, bore the brunt of the blizzard conditions.
Karen Baillie, CEO at Menno Place and BCCPA past president, described how her staff went the extra mile.
“Bas, my Maintenance Manager and his staff member, not only came in before the highway was closed,” says Karen, “but stayed overnight last night here in Abbotsford in a hotel and cleared our whole campus of snow. Also, our Manager of Dining Experience came in before the highway closed to make sure we could run our 5 kitchens. What a wonderful team we have!”
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