Our residents submitted a variety of items to the local Great Northern Exhibition fair in September and won in a variety of categories. The Resident Council will be receiving a cheque that will be put towards resident programming. RESIDENT AND FAMILY In order to increase visual stimulation, we are now painting walls in West Simcoe Memory Care home area. Visual Stimulation SUNSET VILLAGE & MANOR | ISSUE 2 | 2019 What’s New at your Home! We have started our “Give-a-Lift” Fundraising Campaign. To date we have raised $2,858 with more exciting fundraising events to come! Pictured above Hans Muller and Jenn Baulke receiving the 43 inch TV donated by the Collingwood Legion Thank you! Great Job! A palliative care cart has been purchased with the funds raised from our Soup & Chili event. Our goal is to purchase four more, one for each home. One down, four more to go! Please welcome our new Occupational Therapists crew: Rhonda Lennox, Shodhan Kothari,Whayoung Choi and Annu Jigar Bhatt. New Physiotherapy provider Sunset Manor Residents are getting ready for the holiday season! They will be offering wooden mason Jar signs, gift tags, mittens, and other gifts. All items are handmade by our residents, donated to us by the community. Stay tuned! Getting ready for the holiday season!
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Our residents submitted a variety of items to the local Great Northern Exhibition fair in September and won in a variety of categories. The Resident Council will be receiving a cheque that will be put towards resident programming.
RESIDENT AND FAMILY
In order to increase visual stimulation, we are now painting walls in West Simcoe Memory Care home area.
Visual Stimulation
SUNSET VILLAGE & MANOR | ISSUE 2 | 2019
What’s New at your Home!
We have started our “Give-a-Lift” Fundraising Campaign. To date we have raised $2,858 with more exciting fundraising events to come!
Pictured above Hans Muller and Jenn Baulke receiving the 43 inch TV donated by
the Collingwood Legion
Thank you! Great Job!
A palliative care cart has been purchased with the funds raised from our Soup & Chili event. Our goal is to purchase four more, one for each home.
One down, four more to go!
Please welcome our new Occupational Therapists crew: Rhonda Lennox, Shodhan Kothari,Whayoung Choi and Annu Jigar Bhatt.
New Physiotherapy provider
Sunset Manor Residents are getting ready for the holiday season! They will be offering wooden mason Jar signs, gift tags, mittens, and other gifts. All items are handmade by our residents, donated to us by the community. Stay tuned!
Getting ready for the holiday season!
Reminder to families, please do not leave money or any valuables in your loved one’s room. Money can be left at the front office to be deposited into their comfort account.
UPCOMING EVENTSNOVEMBER
December 19Resident Christmas Party
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DECEMBER
November 11 Remembrance Day
November 26 & 27 Residents and Family
Christmas Dinners
November 2 Christmas Craft and
Vendor Market
NURSING UPDATES2 new RNs now onboard - Deb Boyd and Cynthia Parks. Congratulations to Katie Anderson who is now officially part of the RN team. We continue to recruit PSWs, RPNS and RNs.
Our donation wall is now completed in the front foyer. Jason Booth, a local photographer, donated his print for the wall.
Donation Wall
Welcome Wall on West Simcoe - Activationist, Cindy Harvey, brought the “sun” back into Sunset Manor! Upon entering our West Simcoe home area, you will notice a sunny yellow wall to brighten up the entry way. The wall has beautifully placed de-cals encasing the words “Welcome to West Simcoe”. A warm welcome to all who enter, including our residents. The bright, fun wall colour has been used throughout the West Simcoe unit to gain attention from and stimulate our residents. This wall is so popular that the other four home areas will be adopting the same “Welcome Wall”.
We need your help for the Resident
Family Christmas dinners. Please
connect with your Homes to find our how you can help.
Sunset Manor’s Annual Christmas Craft & Vendor Sale is November 2, 2019 in Sunset Manor’s Auditorium from 9 am – 1 pm. Our sale brings together people from our community and offers special Christmas crafts and gifts for the holiday season. The cost of a vendor table is $25.00 and the funds go towards Sunset Manor’s Resident’s Council. Last year, our sale raised $350.00 for our Resident’s Council. This event is very successful. There is something for everyone. It also helps put our staff and residents as well as our community into the holiday spirit! We hope to see you there!
Pictured, resident Sharon Swift on a trio bike rideon a breezy summer afternoon.
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A Message from Jane Sinclair, GM, Health & Emergency Services
We hope everyone has had a wonderful summer and is enjoying this beautiful
fall season. We are excited to bring you recent updates about what’s happening in your home or residence.
This year has seen a significant number of changes in long-term care (LTC) funding announced by the provincial government. The province applied a 2.3% inflationary increase to LTC resident fees as well as a 1% inflationary increase to LTC funding, the lowest increase to homes in nine (9) years. Further, given the challenges with the Level of Care funding component that assesses resident needs on an annual basis, only one of our four (4) homes is receiving an increase for heavier care requirements. Though two (2) of our other three (3) homes were assessed to have higher care requirements than the year prior, because they weren’t higher than the average provincial increase, all three (3) homes will in fact lose funding for the 2019/2020 period.
In 2018, County Council established a stabilization fund to address the unstable nature of this provincial funding scheme. As such, we are pleased to advise that there will be no reductions in staffing levels as a result of this funding loss. In addition, the home receiving additional funding (Simcoe Manor), will be adding new Personal Support Worker hours to their operations.
During the summer, as Board Chair for Advantage Ontario, I joined a delegation of staff from this not-for-profit association that represents long-term care homes, seniors housing and services across the province, in meetings with the new Minister of Long-Term Care and her senior staff. Concerns were conveyed regarding the detrimental impact on resident care resulting from some of the recently announced funding changes along with the inadequacy of the current funding model.
Our contingent participated in positive discussions with the Ministry and are pleased to advised that two (2) of the most significant changes to eliminate a long-standing High Wage Transition Fund (HWTF) and Structure Compliance Premium (SCP) have been transitioned to 2020 with a commitment to look at strategies to address the needs in both of these areas. For the County, the elimination of these funds initially scheduled to end in August of this year would mean a reduction in annual funding to our four (4) homes of $1M annually.
Despite the overwhelming trend of higher care needs, and a funding model that has fallen critically short in providing adequate support for our residents, you can be assured that our staff will continue to work with AdvantAge Ontario and AMO (Association of Municipalities) to advocate for better solutions that are both cost-effective and ensure our resident needs are of the utmost priority. We will continue to provide the highest quality of care for our residents.
On a lighter note, we are continuing to prepare for our next Quality based Accreditation in 2020. Accreditation is an ongoing process of assessing health and social services organizations against standards of excellence to identify our strengths and areas that we can continue to improve. It involves all members of our organization, from management to front line staff, residents and families as well as community partners. This process allows us to ensure we are fully utilizing our resources, increasing efficiency, enhancing quality and safety, and reducing risk. Our Accreditation kick-off begins in November 2019 in preparation for visits from the surveyors in November 2020. As in previous Accreditation years, we look forward to maintaining Exemplary Standing. Stay tuned for more updates.
Hope you enjoyed this edition of our Newsletter and we look forward to bringing you more updates soon!
OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU
Six new air conditioning units and a new water tank are installed. Georgian One home area flooring is underway. New vanity units are ready to be installed. Georgian One and Georgian Two windows project will begin this fall. Working on new concrete design for the Courtyard this fall. Renovations are progressing. We apologize for any inconvenience caused by this renovation.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECTS and GREEN TEAM UPDATES
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A BIG THANK YOU TO OUR DEDICATED
VOLUNTEERS!
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George CornellWarden
Mark AitkenCAO
Jane SinclairGeneral Manager
COUNTY ADMINISTRATION TEAM
• Hannah Thomson• Don and Donna McNabb• Carolina Knights• David Sheppard• Janice Plyley• Christine Ploeg • Christianne Banfield • Sue Bates • Claire Reyes• Tom Kulakowsky• Rory Ring
We Need Your Help!Our Homes are hosting their annual Resident Family Christmas dinners. Please connect with your Homes to find our how you can help.
Pictured, resident Eric Milton (top left), Sharon and Jeff Stone (top right), staff and resident out for a walk (bottom left), Patsy Ford and Janet Carlson enjoying the petting zoo.
“If you want to feel good about your day and that you have accomplished something, help bring pleasure and a smile to someone, and when you are heading home, you’ll know that you have made a difference to someone’s life that day. You will feel good about yourself which means they have actually have done something for you as well.” – Volunteer Linda, Georgian Manor
MANAGEMENT TEAM call 705-445-4499 for more information
