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- Help cultivate peace, harmony, creativity. Plan events, speak in public, prepare PSAs, other possibilities. (73524/73465) - Answer transferred phone calls at home from 7 to 9 p.m. to help connect people to emergency shelters. (69307) - Help transmit emergency messages between military service members and their families. (47121) - Drivers needed to deliver meals to homebound seniors. Mileage reimbursement, use own vehicle. (47808) youths and adults These positions are open to volunteers of all ages. - Christmas Forest volunteers - light carpentry, assist designers, sell raffle tickets, other possibilities. (47689) - Assist patients in an Alzheimer's care facility with activities including exercises, games, storytelling, as well as visual and sensory exercises. (59662) - Help the library raise money for special programs by setting up and tearing down displays for weekend book sales held monthly.
Seniors are signing up
If everything clicks, the company planning a new senior-living community in Collierville this spring will start making calls from a waiting list that's already grown to 200 potential residents. The upscale development promises amenities that could put a smile on even the most cantankerous. .
HOSPITAL CLOSINGS: State puts Memorial, Mount St. Mary’s on merger ...
A decision on the merger report will be made by the commissioner by June 30, 2008. The commission recommended that western Niagara County's two acute care facilities negotiate toward common governance to stop a "medical arms race" that is expensive and creates duplicative services. During the negotiations the state has said it will not approve new projects at either hospital, with some exceptions. If the state believes a hospital is not negotiating in good faith, it could be shut down. If that happens, the other would be expanded to accommodate more patients.Memorial's plans for a renovated behavioral health unit have not received final approval from the state. Ruffolo said he believed the project fit within the acceptable exceptions to the ban on new projects. Niagara County, which has filed a lawsuit against the state regarding the commission's recommendation to close and demolish Mount View Health Facility and build an assisted living facility in its place, is also expecting a letter from Albany.
Friend's House To Close, Tree Of Life Future Uncertain
ROGERS -- It's just a small block building surrounded by a parking lot for St. Mary's Hospital, but it's kept many older people out of nursing homes over the years, or at least delayed their confinement.Friends House, an adult day care center, will close at the end of February. Mercy Health System of Northwest Arkansas owns Friends House, and the news comes hard on the heels of Mercy's decision to turn over their hospice service to Circle of Life.More changes are coming. One of those will include Tree of Life Family Health Center, said Jennifer LaPerre, vice president of business development for Mercy.Inside Friends House on Thursday afternoon, a group of older adults play dominos. Others flip through magazines and talk to each other while they sit on couches or recliners. A few meander around the living room or sit quietly by themselves."My dad has gone there for over two years and it's his home away from home.
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