Publication: PR Web
The Dawn Greene Hospice, a 10-bed facility located on the 15th floor of Mary Manning Walsh Home (MMW) on the Upper East Side, was officially dedicated and blessed at a ceremony by the Archbishop of New York, His Eminence Timothy Michael Cardinal Dolan.
Publication: NY Daily News
It's a double blessing.
A group of seniors displaced by Hurricane Sandy celebrated Mass on Wednesday with the city’s top Catholic in their new permanent digs in the Bronx.
Timothy Cardinal Dolan toured the San Vicente de Paul Nursing Home, where nearly 60 elderly residents were placed after the 2012 storm destroyed their nursing facility in Queens.
Publication: NY Daily News
This nurse heals with his voice.
Brazilian-born tenor Luiz Meneghin, a former contestant on NBC’s “America’s Got Talent,” wowed hundreds of elderly nursing home residents with his operatic vocals during a pop-up performance in East Harlem on Friday.
“It’s something I do from my heart,” said Meneghin, 57, a registered nurse who traveled from his home in Utah to perform at ArchCare at Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center.
Publication: SI Live
STATEN ISLAND — Without fear of contradiction, I think it is safe to say that decision making becomes more difficult as the years go by.
As an infant, it was fairly simple — your parents made decisions for you. School-aged, you were a little on your own — you quickly learned that to get along with your classmates and/or your teacher, even your siblings and parents, there were many unwritten rules with consequences.
Publication: NY Times
Faced with soaring health care costs and shrinking Medicare and Medicaid financing, nursing home operators are closing some facilities and embracing an emerging model of care that allows many elderly patients to remain in their homes and still receive the medical and social services available in institutions.
