Celebrating LHCR Staff Employment Anniversaries

2116 Dover Center Road

Westlake, Ohio 44145-3194

Phone: 440-871-0090

www.concordreserve.org

Editor: Janice K. Snyder

Mission Outreach Liaison,

Ext. 2154

Email: jsnyder@concordreserve.org

Concord Communicator

December 1 Year:

Holly Kantura Deetta Varney Sara Eastburn Laurie Schill

2 Years:

Paige Fitch Laurie Smith

3 Years:

Tracy Brown

4 Years:

Bob Miller

7 Years:

Ken Storc

11 Years:

Laura Frioud

25 Years:

Robin Ware

27 Years:

Helen Garcia

November

1 Year:

Dorothy Nelson Fabian Mediavill Tavia Bowers Michelle Bajcer

Samantha Munoz

2 Years:

Fatima Hassan Steve Burnham Mike Mandarano

3 Years:

Narketah Stephens Tanisha Owens Marilena Docy Sonteria Fitzgerald Larry White, Jr.

4 Years:

Ramona Sookraj April Funk

6 Years:

Josh Lowman Leslie Dover

11 Years:

Kristan Cantwell

12 Years:

Susan Cox

13 Years:

Andrea Richardson

15 Years:

Danielle Mullins

22 Years:

Pat Ballou

25 Years:

Debbie Barrett

26 Years:

Shelly Livingston Kim Jordan-Hughett

27 Years:

Anna Frankiewicz

31 Years:

Judy Hoes

33 Years:

Robin Hairston

As we express

our

gratitude, we must never forget that the

highest appreciation is

not to utter words, but

to live

by them.

—John F. Kennedy

Volume 4, Issue 6

Nov—Dec 2014

People in the “News”/ 5-H Club members

2

CEO’s Corner/ Staff Birthdays

3

Cold & Flu Season—

It's baaack

44

Why It's Important to

be Positive at Work

5

10 Guidelines on How to be an Ohioan

6

5th Annual Cookie Walk December 11 —Bakers needed!

7

Celebrating Staff Work Anniversaries

8

Concord Communicator A newsletter for

Employees of Concord Reserve

Smoking on our campus is

prohibited in accordance with

Chapter 3794 of the Ohio

Revised Code. This rule is

strictly enforced for the health

of our residents and

employees.

Inside This Issue

The Lutheran Home at Concord Reserve

Are you on Facebook? So are we!

www.facebook.com/LutheranHomeAtConcordReserve

Receive this anointing with oil,

a blessing to the work of your

hands to carry God's healing and

wholeness to every life you touch.

In celebration of Pastoral Care Week, the Spiritual Life team of

Chaplain Charlie Lentner, Sister Jacy, Sister Mary Ann Phillip, and Janice

Snyder offered a “blessing of the hands” to staff on all neighborhoods and in

every department .

We ask that God would sustain all our

staff and volunteers, and from His great storehouse of strength, fill our hearts

with His love for all who come to us for care.

Pictured is Bernadette Diaz, Dietary.

We had over 36 registered walkers on our Concord Cruisers Walk to End Alzheimer's team, and LHCR came in 2nd in the friendly facility

fundraising competition--(out of 25 healthcare teams) raising over $5200, and earning overall status of 6th place out of over 90 teams. Way to go Concord

Cruisers! Many thanks to all who walked, pledged & supported our team.

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People

5-H Club nomination forms for 2014 are available around campus for

guests, family & staff to recognize great work by LHCR employees.

Please detail how the staff member's actions support

the LHCR Vision, and return the form to the Main Street Ambassador’s Desk.

The 5-H Club highlights staff who have been

nominated by peers, family members, or guests for going

“above & beyond” the scope of their job description.

Sophia Vehlhaber is our new front desk Ambassador. She has one

son and two granddaughters and enjoys scrapbooking and

gardening. She has been married for 33 years to her husband

Kim. They currently live in Brook Park with two Pomeranians.

Stephanie Thompson (right) is an STNA who has been with LHCR since February 2014. She was

nominated by both a staff member and a resident family member.

Fellow co-worker Sara Eastburn nominated Stephanie for helping Pine Tree Lane look festive & fun for the fall. "Stephanie used her

own time to shop for the decorations and to hang beautiful leaves from the

ceiling. Residents and staff appreciate Stephanie's efforts to

make everyone welcome and excited for the season!"

Resident family member Barb Adams also wanted to recognize

Stephanie, "for her kindness, loving compassion, and concern for all the residents she cares for." Barb

says, "My mom is very comfortable when Stephanie is her aid. She

feels safe in her hands. Stephanie is always joyful-and when she is there, I am at peace because I

know my mom is well-cared for.”

Bill Salvage (left), a 10-year LHCR employee, STNA and Life

Enrichment team member, has been recognized for:

Hospitality, Hope and Happiness in our LHCR vision statement. Bill

was nominated by Resident Norma Jean and her daughter

Laurel Faudree.

Laurel writes: "Mom appreciates Bill's leadership of the Men's Club

because she feels the male residents really need that activity. Mom especially enjoys Bill's Coffee Talks. I personally feel grateful to

Bill because I believe he's very attuned to the emotional state of

the residents of Lutheran and

committed to their well-being.” a

Ela Szablicki

Bill Salvage

Stephanie Thompson

Sophia Vehlhaber

Congratulations to...

Ela is the new Rehab Director for Absolute therapy on our campus. She has been an OT for 9 years, and has been with Absolute for 6 years. She was born in Warsaw, Poland and speaks Polish, Russian and Hungarian. She met her American husband in Europe. They enjoy hiking and are BIG sports fans, enjoying all the Cleveland teams, soccer, and OSU football. Their son is a soph-omore at Ohio State University.

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MASSAGE THERAPY is available on campus EVERY Tuesday as a service to our EMPLOYEES

RATES

15 MINUTES-$12

30 MINUTES-$28

45 MINUTES-$40

1 HOUR-$50

Bakers Needed for our 5th Annual

Taste of Home Christmas Cookie Walk

Thursday, December 11, 2014 from 9 a.m. to noon (or while they last!)

Hand pick from many HOMEMADE

seasonal varieties

$8 per pound

To volunteer to bake, or for more information, call Janice Snyder

Mission Outreach Liaison at ext. 2154 or jsnyder@concordreserve.org

To schedule your

appointment with Cathy Lanese, LMT

call ext. 2191

Licensed

Massage Therapist

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10 Guidelines on How to be an Ohioan

1. Know the state casserole. The State casserole consists of canned green beans, Campbell's cream of mushroom soup and dried onions. You can safely take this casserole to any social event and know that you will be accepted. In fact, Neil Armstrong almost took this casserole to the moon in case he encountered alien life there. NASA nixed the plan out of concern that the casserole would overburden the Apollo rocket at lift-off.

2. Get used to food festivals. The Ohio General Assembly, in an effort to grow bigger offensive linemen, passed legislation years ago requiring every incorporated community to have at least one festival per year dedicated to a high-fat food. Thus, Sugarcreek honors Swiss cheese, Bucyrus has a

bratwurst celebration and Gahanna, seeking an edge over other towns, has recently introduced the Triglyceride and Low density Lipoprotein Festival. It is your duty as an Ohioan to attend these festivals and at least buy an elephant ear.

3. Know the geography. You can spell words like Cuyahoga and Tuscarawas and don't think of Florida first when someone mentions Miami. But speaking of Florida, there are Ohioans who couldn't tell you where Toledo is but they know the exact distance from Fort Myers to Bonita Springs. That's because so many Ohioans go to Florida in the winter. Or plan to when they retire. Or are related to retired Ohioans who have a place in Sarasota. We consider Florida to be the Lower Peninsula of Ohio.

4. Winter. If you can't afford to spend the winter in Florida, use the state excuse, which is that you stay here because you “like the change of seasons”. You'll be lying, but that's OK. We've all done it.

5. Speaking of Ohio weather, wear layers or die. You know this if You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day. The thing to remember about Ohio seasons is that they can occur at anytime. We have spring-like days in January and wintry weekends in October. April is capable of providing a sampling of all four seasons in a single 24-hour period. For these reasons, Ohio is the Layering Capital of the World.

6. Don't take Ohio place names literally. Upper Sandusky is below regular Sandusky. Circleville is square. East Liverpool has no counterpart to the west. Also, if a town has the same name as a foreign capital... Lima or Berlin or Louisville, for example... you must not pronounce it that way lest you come under suspicion as a spy. Hence, it's not LEE-ma as in Peru, but LYE-ma as in bean and it's BER-lin, not Ber-LIN, like in Germany. Louisville in Ohio is pronounced Looisville, not Looeyville as in Kentucky.

7. Celebrities. Know the local celebrities from Ohio: Clark Gable, Cadiz (KA-diz, again, not like the city in Spain - (ka-DEES); Dean Martin, Steubenville; Robert Urich, Toronto; Dave Thomas (founder of Wendy's), Dublin; Toni Morrison; Phyllis Diller; Bob Hope; Elliot Ness; Orville & Wilbur Wright & many others.

8. Sports. In order to talk sports with obsessive fans in Ohio, you have to be knowledgeable on three levels: professional, college and high school. The truly expert Ohio sports fan knows not only the name of the hot-shot quarterback at Abercrombie Fitch High School, but also what colleges he's interested in, how much he bench-presses, who he took to the prom, and what he got on his biology quiz last week.

9. Trends. Remember that Ohioans are never the first to embrace trends. When we do embrace them, we do so with a mid-western pragmatism. For example, if you see an Ohioan with a nose ring, there's a good chance they’ve had it undercoated to guard against rust.

10. The best way to sell something in Ohio is to attach the term "Amish" to it. The product need not be genuinely Amish. This would explain the existence of Amish moo shu pork.

I hope you found this guide to be useful. If it offends you, please let me know and I will bring green bean casserole to your home to make amends. (From the internet)

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November Juliette Saad Vaughn Garten Valerie Ramsier Kristen Kotalik Miranda Warren Kimberly Jordan-Hughett Beth Hoffa

Kara Danczak Debbie Mance Lakisha Hart Deidre Newman Larry White, Jr. Axcel Hirwa Laverna Adams

Laura Frioud

December Aide Ruiz

Catherine Hollan Takeidra Davis Bernadette Diaz Lorraine Lash, Jose Alicea Megan Daniels, Joyce Sandvik

Sharon Moyer Dominick Mandarano Catherine Johnson

Charlie Rinne Marilyn Cancel

Ashley Wagner-Pollard Doris Gill, Dee Sterling

Marilena Docy, Natalie Nixon Ashleigh Jenkins

Kayaira Edwards Robin Hairston, Lianano Molapo

Dorothy Nelson Holly Kantura

Kristan Cantwell

Staff Birthdays—Wishing you a happy day!

Team Members: Fall is always a beautiful time of year with the transition of color and the refreshing cool winds of change. We as an organization are much like the season of Fall. Our beautiful campus has the winds of transition with the potential opportunity of senior independent housing complementing our multiple lines of service. Hope springs eternal. Just maybe in the next 12-24 months the winds of change will bring another air of excitement to our growing campus, in the form of apartments for our senior community. Challenging times!

Blessings, Charlie

CEO’s Corner

Olivia Sophia, was born on October 20th to Orchard

Court STNA Mirela Manolache and her

husband Bogdan. Sophia weighed 5 lbs. 6 oz. and

was 17.5 inches long. She joins sister Emma. Congratulations!

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Cold & Flu Season—It's baaack

Although the common cold (in all its variant forms) never really goes away, there is a true season for the flu — and we're in it. A theory behind is that in the winter, we all spend more time inside where it's easier to pass the virus person to person. Another idea holds that there's some-thing about the virus that enables its spread in cold, dry air. One thing that's for certain: Cold and flu viruses are airborne; they can fly up to six feet through the air. They can also live outside of the human body for about 24 hours.

Joseph Rubio, the director of microbiology at RB, the makers of Lysol, says anytime you're out in public, it's likely there's a cold or flu virus lurking on a surface nearby. "You can't live in a bubble; you're always going to be exposed to germs. Our bodies have evolved to have a fighting chance in the war against germs. We have an immune system, and a very good intact skin that doesn't allow germs to go through. We're designed to live in a world full of germs." But even so there are steps you should take to avoid getting sick — washing your hands or using hand sanitizer after touching public objects, and being wary of commonly germy spaces.

Grocery Store Cart Handles: Grocery store shopping carts are one of the worst offenders, especially be-

cause you alternate between cart handles and fresh food. Wipe down the handle with a portable cleansing wipe if you can, or at the very least, don't touch any food directly while you shop.

Reusable grocery bags: In 2011, researchers from the University of Arizona found that only 3 percent of shoppers say they regularly wash their bags; 99 percent of bags tested carried some type of bacteria. Some even held E. coli.

Table Surfaces and Condiments: When you come in contact with restaurant tables and chairs, you're

touching something a lot of other people touch. One surprisingly dirty thing you might not have considered in restaurants—the salt and pepper shakers or condiments bottles. The heath problems start when you then put your hands to your mouth, eyes or ears.

Laundromats: A hot beds for germs. "When clothes come in there, they're full of germs. They go into the washing machine, which gets rid of dirt, but not all the bacteria. As you handle wet clothing in a public Laundromat, you can get those germs that have accumulated in the machine," Rubino said.

Public Restrooms: Your top germ concern in public restroom likely isn't the toilet — it's the sink. "The faucet

and the sink area are going to be very germy," said Rubino. "Washing your hands is going to dislodge the bacteria; some of it will fall into the sink and wash away, but some will fall around the sink." Rubino recommends turning off faucets with a paper towel in hand, and handling door handles that way, as well. "Try not to touch anything with your hands as you're washing your hands and exiting," he said.

Gas Pump Handles: Gas pump handles, mailbox handles, escalator rails and ATM buttons are among the dirtiest things you touch every day, Kimberly-Clark professional hygienists found after examining high-traffic areas in six cities. That's why anytime you go out, you should wash your hands when you get to your home or to your work.

Airplane Seats and Restrooms: Any spot on an airplane or train is likely to be dirty, as a lot of people touch

those spaces without much deep cleaning. "It goes without saying if you use any type of public transportation, those objects that people touch a lot, they've been touched by hundreds of people," Rubino said. "Don't put your hands to your face until you've had a chance to wash them." Some people might consider wiping down airplane seats and trays before sitting down to help minimize exposure — especially as we head into the holiday travel season.

The bottom line: This time of year, wash your hands again and again for your best chance of staying healthy.

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When visitors come to the Lutheran Home at Concord Reserve, I . . .

□ Invite them to volunteer for something.

□ Ask what brings them to our campus.

□ Leave them alone — we have other staff for this.

□ Introduce myself and find out a little about them.

By Liz Seasholtz

When interviewing employees, one question I always ask is “What are you most proud about in your work?” Answers typically range from their involvement in an important project, their ability to work in a team, the fast pace at which they handled the initial learning curve, etc.

One particular employee had a simple answer that really impressed me: “My positive attitude.” She explained that as an investment banking analyst, her job can be very stressful and the team dynamic can get intense under deadline. But she always remains optimistic and enthusiastic because she believes attitude is contagious.

I’ve conducted dozens of these interviews, and I think that’s the best answer I’ve ever gotten for that question. No matter your job title—electrical engineer, stock trader, dog walker, whatever—if you approach things with a positive outlook, people will want to work with you.

It’s also worth noting that being positive doesn’t necessary mean you have to be nauseatingly enthusiastic and chipper all the time—in that case, your coworkers will probably get annoyed. Being positive in the workplace means greeting staff with a smile instead of briskly walking by with your head down, remaining calm and optimistic when a project seems to be failing, and supporting your coworkers when they need it. If you feel like you’re being negative in your workplace, here are 5 tips to help yourself perk up!

1. Stop trying to change your coworkers. This is huge. You simply cannot change other people’s behavior, so instead invest time in improving how you respond to them.

2. Find out if you’re contributing to problems at work. Take note when you’re complaining or blaming. Chances are this is the area where you can improve your own outlook and solve problems.

Why It's Important to be Positive at Work

LCCC STNA Class Clinical Rotation

On Monday, November 17, Lorain County Community

College will have their STNA Class on our campus for a

Clinical Rotation.

They will be here from 6:45 a.m. until 3:15 p.m. from Mon., Nov.

17 through Thurs., Nov. 20. They will be completing their Clinical Rotation on Vineyards

and Lighthouse and will park in the West Lot and enter through

Lighthouse.

Please welcome the students when they arrive.

3. Be grateful. Rather than focus-ing on what’s wrong at work, focus on what is working well. Make a list of 5 to 10 things you’re happy about at work everyday.

4. Look for opportunity. When-ever you perceive that something bad is happening, get into the habit of finding the hidden opportunity. If you had a bad meeting, use it as an opportunity to gather insight into what went wrong and what you should to avoid similar issues in the future.

5. Think before you act. We’ve heard this since kindergarten, but truly, assess whether your potential actions and words are helpful or hurtful. If they’re not helpful, then stop.