A Menorah Park Minute Friday, July 10, 2020

It's Planting Time!! During this challenging time, nourishing our bodies is as important as our minds and summer allows us the safe opportunity to dig in the dirt, plant and connect to nature's processes of growth and rejuvenation . R ecognizing that the desire to explore and learn doesn’t diminish as we age, Christine Hansen (Menorah Park's c linical nutrition manager and registered dietitian) and her team thrive on sharing their love of foods and making it accessible while engaging the residents' interests. One day they're at The Oaks, hosting one of their “Fork and Knife” cooking classes. Another day they’r e enlisting residents from The Terrace to help make tasty, nutritious salad from the herbs and vegetables growing on the patio . Recently Christine and Lela Niemetz, RDN (pictured watering)  headed over to our group home, Beit Tikvah, to start planting in their new custom-built , wheelchair-accessible raised garden beds built by our facility manager, Jim Valenson. Working with the residents, they planted an assortment of vegetables, herbs, and flowers with the residents. Edible items they planted included basil, nasturtiums,lavender, tomatoes and lemongrass. And to top off an extremely hot but productive exercise, a wild black raspberry bush was discovered at the back of the property. At harvest, vegetables, herbs and fruits will be incorporated into nutrition demos and other fun activities for the group home residents. We can’t wait to see what new and delicious dishes they come up with! The flowers, of course, will brighten everyone's spirits!

COVID-19 Updates We continue to do our best to keep our families and community informed about the status of COVID-19 on our campus as well as, the health and well-being of our residents and staff. We will continue to communicate with you via the following vehicles: Email Updates – near daily (M-F) Website - daily, (M - F) “A Menorah Park Minute” – bi-weekly E-newsletter Families are encouraged to continue working with their SJFS contact to schedule virtual visits their loved ones. Click here   for COVID-19 updates.

Menorah Park Gets A "Nip and Tuck" With the facility still under visitor restrictions, we're using the time to up date pantries and freshen up our look for the day when we can give our families and friends a proper "Welcome Back!"

Making Our Residents Look Their Best...Safely We are VERY excited that the hair salon at the Jewish Home is FINALLY open to our residents. Just as a reminder, due to strict COVID-19 prevention guidelines, we will no longer be able to honor " standing”  appointments. The Inn/Jewish Home/Terrace residents and/or families must call Alyse, Menorah Park stylist, at 315.446.9111, x167, to schedule EVERY appointment.   We are required to adhere to strict COVID-19 infection prevention measures which can cause a delay between appointments. Our primary concern is keeping our residents safe and healthy. In order to do that we are: Scheduling appointments by floors and quads Permitting only one resident in the salon at a time Requiring residents to wear masks AT ALL TIMES while enroute to and from the salon Requiring residents to wear masks AT ALL TIMES while in the salon Performing extensive cleaning of the salon and equipment after each appointment. ·            Please be patient with us. We will get to every resident's style!

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