Just wanted to say thanks: for your professionalism; thanks for your dedication; thanks for your compassion. We all appreciate it so very much. For the past two years, we’ve had this thought – what about bringing a smile to someone’s face unexpectedly –…
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2012 Award Winners Announced
Each year we bring our team leaders to Hutchinson for an educational conference. During our winter conference, we announce those who won awards during the previous year. Last night, we announced the winners of the 2012 awards. *Pictured above, L to R: Dean Bloemke,…
Orchard Hill gets ready to celebrate love
Orchard Hill Assisted Living Community is proud to present 9 of our 10 married couples with a combination of 477 years of blissful happiness! We will honor these couples with a romantic Valentine’s Day dinner with music and wine on February 14!
2011 Welcome Home Award Winners
Each year, Welcome Home gives out several awards for excellence in our senior living communities. Awards for Resident Choice, Employee Choice, Best Community Award, and the North Star Leadership Award were given to communities and individuals who qualified for the awards. Our teams did such…
Home for the Holidays
By Todd Corrow, Marketing Associate at Legends at Heritage Place and Lisa Lehmann, Director of Resident Services at Twin Town Villa. As families gather together during this upcoming Holiday Season, some may face seeing changes in their parents. Our goal is to assist all families…
Heart and Soul – LCM Workshop
Today, the heart and soul of the care providers visited Welcome Home for their Fall Workshop. We covered a variety of topics, but the overall goal was sharing information between all of the communities. What works, best practices, scheduling ideas, taking inventory, and being a…
Great day of discussion – Community Life Coordinator’s Fall Workshop
What an amazing day filled with ideas and great discussion among a bunch of talented people! Today, we hosted our Community Life Coordinator’s and the Director’s of Resident Services from our communities. Quite honestly,
Residents celebrate Assisted Living Week with a Bus Trip to the North Shore – Duluth and Two Harbors
This past week, residents of Potter Ridge Assisted Living (Red Wing) along with residents from Orchard Hill Assisted Living (New Ulm) took a road trip to the North Shore of Minnesota. On Tuesday thirty residents, family and staff, boarded the Sugar Loaf Charters bus and…
2011 King and Queen of Orchard Hill
I just wanted to pass along a link to the New Ulm Journal about the coronation of King and Queen as Orchard Hill kicks off Assisted Living Week. You can view the short article here. Congratulations to Charlie and Bonnie!
For the love of food
In an older adults life, food plays a vital role. How it looks, how it tastes, the texture, to how it is perceived. Every year, we bring our Food Service Director’s together for workshops where we cover topics that are useful to them and their…