Madrid Home

Title: Madrid Home Communities
Time: 6 min 47 sec

Description:

Everyone's Talking. Take a look inside the Madrid Home, Ballard Creek Assisted Living, and the Cedars Assisted Living through interviews with the dedicated staff of all three facilities. For more information on Madrid Home Communities, please visit Special Thanks to HTML Programmer Carl Duling

Transcript:

[Music] is to help seniors and whatever portion of life that they are in to have a caring Christian community atmosphere to provide all the services that they would need in a in a home-like atmosphere that we want to be able to help them whenever they need help and let them be as independent as they can be provide skilled care reserved by memory care straight to the nursing facility level of care we have in living we have a facility so we really have a full continuum of care at the matter home community we try to do everything we can which is kind of overarching statement to make those still at home but we try to incorporate their own family recipes we incorporate their our lives their schedule as much as we can my husband and I don't have family in the state so it's a real joy to come to work every day and take care of you know 50 people who feel like grandparents to me you know I grew up and Madrid it's always been kind of like a family atmosphere since I started here I really feel like I've grown out here you know everyone from the top employee to you know the person in laundry they work just as hard I like the residents I work with I like the employees I work with and again I'm going to say it feels like home it's a very welcoming atmosphere one of the things that makes us good is just our sheer size being small we're truly a small family we're not even really get to know who your neighbor is get some of the employees our workforce here is very stable and therefore we get to see the same folks on a real regular I've lived in small towns and I've lived in large cities and I decided to leave the city and come back to a smaller community I always felt that when I left the house in the city if you went to the grocery store there was nobody to say hi to you didn't know anybody when you got out and everyone was always in such a hurry to get where they were going that nobody ever took the time to communicate with you know their neighbor or to say hello or to spend time with each other there's just a different feel about being in a small town and I think that people really really enjoy the small-town atmosphere I know we have residents who love looking out and seeing the corn field out of a window and more than that though it really is the the spirit of small towns I think that makes the difference there really are no rules here Americans when it comes to a sentiment and and how they want to be treated how they want to live their lives a safe environment they pretty much can do anything they want we have open visiting hours we have open dining we're always altering the residence no smash copy usually thanks for available there's generally an activity going on of some sort of division participative so I think overall if they choose to keep busy things as a business to start big gatherings that we have when there are big holiday events we try to plan big parties and so that can you really find people just get kind of can get a little bit goofy and share a little bit more than normal and you know I think one of the one of the little jokes of Nursing always has been you have to learn something new every day before you can go home that's not hard to do here I still learn something new every day these residents teach us the different staff teach us it all then makes us a better person I think the steps that we take is that was intrigued our employees very well and that provides for a lot of longevity that longevity helps build a relationship with the folks that we serve through that relationship we can start anticipating those needs and understanding what's office needs are are at a much higher level I have been listing fomentation home communities since 2000 maybe it's nice my 17 pian I'm looking after the business and I have medical foremost Kaling cool being with American communities I've seen lots of changes and you know I do believe the staff is very securing we offer a lot of opportunities that other facilities don't were in a small community we actually have connections with what's happening around around all the the residents and around all the staff I feel that the matter at home and the theatres and Ballard Street are able to offer better care because we are able to get to know our people and to know when something's wrong and to notice when things aren't right with the people that we care for well not by she's we're not shiny that we have good people and we take good care of people [Music]