Activity Update

Living Life Together in Our Residents’ Home!

   The relationships that grow here at Montrose Health Center are remarkable! Our home is “right-sized” for staff, resident, and family interactions.  Staff truly get to know each resident individually and residents get to know our staff.  We know their families.

   We truly “do life” together here.  Whether it is walking around the block or sitting on the front porch to visit, we impact one another’s lives. We laugh together at the fun games during nursing home week and share meals.  We keep learning new things together. We write notes to local soldiers. We’ve travelled to the Dutchman’s Store and hope to go fishing with staff and residents in May, weather permitting.  If we get rained out on the fishing event, we will be griping about the weather together in true Midwestern style!  We talk about any local news and occasionally gossip during happy hour. We love local parades.  We listen to music. We share the joy of seven staff members who are soon-to-be high school and college graduates. Our residents have had a key role of friendship and of being advisors in these graduates’ lives. They have truly watched them grow! Our maintenance man does not only repair things; he chats with residents about his taxidermy projects. He is their hero. Our staff smile and discuss life while they clean, serve lunch, assist with daily needs and meds, and greet people in the hallways. We celebrate weddings and babies and birthdays and milestones. We pray together. We sing together.  We cry together over death and stand respectfully, honoring our neighbor’s life while Bernice plays hymns on the piano as a resident leaves our home for the last time.

    This place is more than “just a nursing home,” more than just a “place of employment;” it is truly a home. Each member is important as we live life here at Montrose Health Center.  We truly “do life together” at this place.