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RIVeRSIDe NURSINg & ReHABILITATION, LLC4700 Cliffview Drive • Riverside, Missouri 64150 • 816.741.5105 • fax 816.746.1301

sTAFFexecutive Director

Dianne Williamson

Assistantexecutive Director

Carleton Beatty, LPN WCC

Director of Nursing Dody Kulp, RN

Director of AdmissionsCarl Shelton

Admissions CoordinatorHeather Roehr

Director of Rehabilitation/Tara Therapy

Sarah Scherer, OTR?L

business office ManagerRosella Hagar

environmental servicesDirector

David Morrison

social servicesTammy McCleary

Activity DirectorKati Cashman

Maintenance DirectorVincent Lee

WebsiTewww.riversidenursingandrehab.com

Riverside Nursing & Rehabilitation, LLC

4700 Cliffview Drive

Riverside, Mo 64150

There are not words big enough.There is not a hug strong enough.There is not a smile wide enough.All we can offer is thank you.

You are our hero.You are in our thoughts.You are in our prayers.

For all you’ve done, thank you.

Riverside Nursing & Rehab would like to express their heartfelt gratitude to all theVeterans that currently reside within our Home as well as all Veterans who haveserved in the past and who currently are serving to protect our freedom.

Observed every November, American Diabetes Month is animportant element in the American Diabetes Association’s effortsto focus our nation’s attention on disease and the tens of millionsof people affected by it.There are many myths about diabetes that make it difficult forpeople to believe some of the hard facts – such as diabetes is aserious and potentially deadly disease.

Myth: People with diabetes need to follow a special diet.Fact: People with diabetes benefit from the same healthy diet thatis good for everyone else.

Myth: Diabetes is not a serious disease.Fact: Diabetes is a growing epidemic with a devastating physical,emotional and financial on our country.

Myth: People with diabetes can’t gettattoos.Fact: It is considered safe, as long asyour diabetes is well controlled.Myth: People with diabetes are morelikely to get colds and otherillnesses.Fact: You are no more likely to getsick, but an illness can make yourdiabetes more difficult to control.

Myth: It’s possible to have “just a touch” or a “little diabetes”.Fact: There is no such thing. Everyone who has diabetes runs therisk of serious complications.

www.diabetes.orgA sincere Thanks To

our Veterans

Job oPPoRTuNiTiesApply on-line at

http://riversidenursing.applicantpro.com

Happy ThanksgivingThe staff at Riverside

Nursing & Rehab wish

each of you and your loved

ones a safe and happy

Thanksgiving. We count

you among our greatest

blessings and are thankful

to have you as members of

our community family.

Diabetes Awareness Month: Myths or Facts

Chocolate Pecan Pie• 1/2 cup margarine, melted

• 1 cup light corn syrup

• 1 cup white sugar

• 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

• 1/4 teaspoon salt

• 4 eggs

• 1 cup chopped pecans

• 1 recipe pastry for a 9 inch single

crust pie

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. In a heavy

saucepan combine melted margarine,

corn syrup, white sugar and cocoa.

Cook over low heat, stirring constantly,

until sugar dissolves. Add vanilla, salt

and eggs, stirring well. Stir in 1/2 cup

pecans. Mix well.

Pour filling into unbaked pastry shell

and top with remaining 1/2 cup pecans.

Bake for 55 minutes. Let cool and serve.

Thanksgiving Trivia1. Thanksgiving is only celebrated in the United States. True or False?2. Which president was the first to establish Thanksgiving as a legal national

holiday to be held on the 4th Thursday in November?A: Abraham Lincoln B: Franklin D. Roosevelt C: Thomas Jefferson D: JamesMadison

3. What part of the turkey is saved and snapped as a superstitious good luckcharm?

4. The real Plymouth Rock is cracked. True or False?5. Turkeys can drown if they look up in the rain. True or False?

Answers: 1) False. Canada celebrates a Thanksgiving also. 2) B: Franklin D. Roosevelt 3) Wishbone 4) True. It

cracked in half during the Revolutionary War when being pried from its location to be put on a pedestal. 5) True.