The Allure Group Earns Eli Pick Award

The Allure Group is proud to announce that our Crown Heights Center, Hamilton Park, and Harlem Center have been recognized by the American College of Healthcare Administrators for the Eli Pick Leadership Award.  The award is presented each year to the skilled nursing facilities deemed to be among the nation’s top performers.

Winners are selected based on a variety of quality indicators, quality measures, overall census as well as three years of survey data.

Only 7% of the nation’s SNFs qualified for the honor. We are extremely excited and humbled to have been recognized. Congrats again to this year’s winners!

ATCU Marks First Full Month

The Advanced Transitional Care Unit, a joint partnership between Maimonides Medical Center and the Hamilton Park Center, completed its first full month of operation.

The ATCU is a state-of-the-art transitional care unit that ensures patients make a smooth transition from the acute to post-acute setting. Patients are stratified based on diagnosis and acuity, then receive enhanced transitional care until moving into the post-acute phase of their stay. We’re excited to see the success this new program will bring to our patients!

Allure To Celebrate National Wear Red Day on Feb. 1

The first Friday of every February — i.e., American Heart Month — is designated National Wear Red Day, to raise awareness of cardiovascular disease. This year that occasion falls on Feb. 1, and Allure plans to join the wave of red sweeping the nation.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, heart disease is the leading cause of death for men and women in the United States, killing some 610,000 people every year. Some 735,000 Americans suffer a heart attack each year. We invite all to join us in bringing awareness by wearing red tomorrow, Feb 1st.

Stay tuned for a full listing of events taking place this month at Allure as we recognize American Heart Month and Allure’s groundbreaking Hearts in Motion Cardiac Rehabilitation program!

Allure COO Melissa Powell Published on Business.com

Team-building, one of an executive’s most critical tasks, is primarily a matter of promoting professional development and personal wellness within the workforce. So writes Allure Group COO Melissa Powell for the publication Business.com:

Developing great employees is a multifaceted task, but much of it starts by addressing their needs as professionals. In any industry, development and fulfillment are the major aspects of professional satisfaction, and any organization that works hard to foster these two qualities will find itself enjoying the rewards–motivated, self-starting, hardworking employees.

Melissa adds that it is also important to provide such perks as meditation rooms, yoga studios and exercise facilities, to help employees deal with the everyday stresses of their jobs.

Happy 90th Birthday!!

We are proud to celebrate the 90th birthday of one of the members of our Adult Day Care program. Thank you to our King David Center for hosting a fun birthday bash to celebrate a wonderful person!

Pet Therapy at Harlem Center

Pet therapy for the elderly has become a popular method of therapy for senior citizens. In fact, the documented benefits of interaction with pets are mental, emotional, and even physical.

Residents at our Harlem Center recently enjoyed some pet therapy with a few adorable dogs who came to visit.

Cooking Lessons at King David Center

Residents at our King David Center participated in a cooking lesson recently where they learned how to make trifles. It was a fun afternoon with delicious sweet treats, thanks very much to everyone who participated.

Bedford Center Employee Of The Month

Congratulations to Fang Wu, this month’s Employee of the Month at our Bedford Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation! Thanks so much for all of the work you do for The Allure Group!

Happy Easter/ Happy Passover/ happy Spring!

Here are some fun Passover facts:

1. This holiday, which celebrates the Israelites’ freedom from Egyptian slavery, is the oldest and most important festival celebrated by Jewish people.
2. Passover is named after the literal event of God “passing over” the Jewish households back in the day when he unleashed 10 plagues on Egypt because the Pharaoh refused to let the Jewish slaves go free. Can you name them all?
3. During Passover, Jewish people eat matzos, an unleavened bread made of flour and water, in tribute to their ancestors.
4. The Coca-Cola Company actually has its plants switch to cane sugar instead of corn syrup in some batches to make the beverage kosher for the holiday.

And here are some fun facts about Easter:

1. Next to Halloween, Easter is the biggest candy-consuming holiday of the year.
2. Some $14.7 billion is spent each year on the holiday in the U.S.
3. More than 90 million chocolate bunnies, 91.4 billion eggs and 700 million marshmallow Peeps are produced each year in our country.
4. Americans buy more than 700 million Peeps during the Easter season, making it the most popular non-chocolate Easter candy.
5. Over 16 million jelly beans are consumed in the U.S. during this holiday, enough to circle the globe three times.

A Huge Congrats to our Harlem & Linden Centers!

Our COO Melissa Powell and the leadership teams from the Harlem Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation and Linden Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation each received a Quality Award from American Health Care Association at a ceremony held in New Orleans in early March.

The Quality Initiative is a national effort, launched in 2012, to further improve the quality of care in America’s long-term and post-acute care centers. Members have been challenged to meet measurable targets in crucial areas like hospitalizations and antipsychotics usage, with the goal of meeting the criteria in four areas by March 2021.

Dr. Salgado Quoted in this month’s Men’s Health Magazine

Dr. Miran Salgado, quoted in the recent March issue of Men’s Health magazine on ‘What Causes A Brain Fart’, continues to lead our “Minds in Motion” program, a specialized 28-bed unit in the King David Center catering to the needs of those who have suffered a stroke or are afflicted with degenerative neuromuscular disorders like Parkinson’s Disease, multiple sclerosis (MS) or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

While all of three of these diseases are incurable, advances have been made in research. And in the case of Parkinson’s and MS, patients’ quality of life can be greatly enhanced with the proper care, like that which is administered by Dr. Salgado and his staff of specially trained therapists.

They make use of advanced equipment and techniques. “Minds in Motion” also features an ongoing lecture series, “the Vanguard Series,” which is available to staff, patients, families and the community at large.

To read Dr Salgado’s quote, make sure to pick up one of the March Men’s Health printed edition’s before they’re off the shelf!

The Allure Group Recognizes Social Work Month

March is National Social Work Month, during which the nation’s 650,000 social workers are honored for their tireless work as advocates, champions and leaders seeking to improve society.

According to a release, social workers are forever seeking to join people with each other and their communities in an attempt to find ways to address issues like hunger, affordable housing, equal rights and making organizations and government accountable.

This month affords everyone the opportunity to shine a light on social workers’ efforts.

Hamilton Park Celebrated St Patrick’s Day With A Special Holiday Menu

We hope you enjoyed the holiday! Hamilton Park enjoyed a special menu on Saturday March 17th with Irish Soda Bread for breakfast, Corned Beef and Cabbage, Boiled Potatoes and Rye Bread for lunch followed by delicious St. Patrick’s Day Cupcakes.

Bedford Center Celebrates First Day Of Spring

Happy Spring! We are excited about the changing of seasons and look forward to warmer weather! Bedford Center welcomed the first day of spring on March 20th by celebrating with a horticultural therapist.

Sallie Stutz, a Horticultural Therapist who also works in Rusk Rehab, came to Bedford Center and did an amazing program! Our residents on all cognitive and physical levels really enjoyed it! She’s extremely patient, informative and got them all involved in all steps of the learning and planting.

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