AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine is running a series of spotlight columns featuring new AMDA Board of Directors members. Bethany Village Medical Director Dr. Meenakshi Patel was recently profiled in the organization’s newsletter. Here is her story. Meenakshi Patel, MD, FACP, CMD, a multi-facility medical director in Ohio, knows how important […]
High Customer Satisfaction Survey Scores Earned
Customer Satisfaction Surveys by the Ohio Department of Aging and the Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman are conducted biennially by an objective, third party agency that performs face-to-face interviews with residents in each long-term care and assisted living facility. The surveys are designed to measure satisfaction of residents with regard to their quality […]
‘Senior Strikers’ Wins Nation Senior League Wii Bowling Conference
Bethany residents Evie Billing, Pat Balmer, Bob Shaw and Hazel Patrick bowled their hearts out while having a great time earning a trophy for winning their Wii bowling conference. The team is so competitive and effective that on occasion a perfect game score of 300 is possible. In fact, Hazel did just that earlier this […]
Are you a Turkey?
Get three strikes in a row on Wii Bowling to earn the honor of being called a Turkey. Bethany Village has four teams participating in a Wii bowling conference through the National Senior League (www.NSLgames.com) that has more than 310 teams participating. Currently, our four teams named Red’s Rollers, Magic Marker, Senior Strikers and Buckeye […]
Sign Language at Bethany Village
Amber, Life Enrichment Coordinator for Cascade, recently started a new activity called “Learning Sign Language.” The activity idea was born when Amber realized resident Irene was feeling left out of activities and conversations. Irene is deaf. Amber just knew all the other residents (and staff!) wanted her to be included. “I looked up some basic signs […]
Honoring National Social Workers Month
We would like to take this time to acknowledge our wonderful staff of our social workers. Our social workers provide services across the Bethany Village continuum of care and Housing services, helping to effectively and compassionately assist our residents through the phases of aging or other difficult life challenges in a way in which their […]
Bethany Village Nursing Care Mentors Program
During the on-boarding of new staff Resident Care Technicians (RCT) receive extensive training, Karen Webb, Nursing Orientation Coordinator, recognized that new employees could use further support and assistance after they start working. She felt that they could use a helpful hand to further welcome them onto the care team as well as ramp up their […]
St. Patrick’s Day ice cream social
The fun-loving residents of Bethany Village Vista Place apartments and Bethany Village Cottages celebrated St. Patrick’s Day with an old fashioned ice cream social.Joan St. John and Virginia McKee cheerfully greet other residents as they entered Vista Place Lounge to celebrate. They, along with the help of Kathy Klein, Bethany Village Life Enrichment Team Leader, […]
Enjoy the taste of eating right
As part of National Nutrition Month 2014, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics encourages everyone to “Enjoy the Taste of Eating Right.” Good nutrition is vital to health and well-being for everyone and enhances a healthy community. One focus of National Nutrition Month addresses how we maintain interest and motivation to make the effort to […]
Senator Sherrod Brown Visits Bethany Village, Discusses ‘Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act’
Today, Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) visited Bethany Village announcing his bipartisan legislation Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act. The bill is a quick fix to a loop-hole in current Medicare legislation in which all hospital stays are covered for seniors regardless if the stay is deemed for “observation status” or “inpatient status.” Currently, “observation status” […]
