Kaye Johnson
🌟🎉 Celebrating Kaye Johnson’s 1-year anniversary at Garden Gate Health Care Facility! 🎉🌟 Thank you, Kaye, for your dedication and hard work over the past year. Here’s to many more years of success and happiness with us! 🎈🎊
Peggy
Peggy, Resident of the Month at Orchard Brooke Peggy was born in Buffalo, NY at Sisters’ Hospital. She has one brother, David, who now lives in North Carolina. Peggy has a niece, Heather, and a nephew, Scott. Peggy graduated from Cheektowaga High School. She met a man by the name of Darcy and married soon after that. They had three children. Unfortunately, Peggy has two miscarriages and one “Miracle Baby” named Ashley, who is Peggy’s pride and joy. Peggy worked for ETHOX Medical Supply Center. She enjoyed working for the company and loved her peers. In Peggy’s spare time, she enjoyed going to the Bingo halls to play bingo. She loves to be outside, enjoying the nice weather and swimming. If Peggy could give the youth of today one piece of advice, it would be “Be Kind to others”.
Kevin Metzger
Kevin Metzger, HR/Business Office Manager, Employee of the Month at Orchard Brooke Kevin Metzger was born in Buffalo, NY. He has two sisters and three brothers. Kevin and his siblings were very close growing up and continue to have a strong family bond. He grew up in a rural town then moved to Buffalo. He graduated from Holland Central School. He went to Alfred State and earned his business degree. He started working for Neil Chur in 1991 who owned O.P. Health Care Center in the corporate office. He later accepted a position at O.P. Health Care Center as the Business Office Manager. In Kevin’s free time, he enjoys traveling. His fondest travels were to Israel and Jordan. If Kevin could give a good piece of advice to the youth it would be…. Wherever you go always remember where you came from.
Deb Cardillo
🎉👏 Congratulations to Deb Cardillo, our Manager of the Quarter at Taconic at Ulster! 👏🎉 Thank you for your outstanding leadership and dedication! Your hard work is truly appreciated!
Rhonda Wichmann
🎉🌟 Congratulations to Rhonda Wichmann (left), our Employee of the Month at Taconic at Ulster! 🌟🎉 Your hard work and dedication shine bright, Rhonda! Keep up the fantastic work! 👏👏
Phyllis
Westfield would like to say Congratulations to our resident of the Month, Phyllis Rupczyk! Phyllis is a wonderful person, who enjoys helping others!
Melissa McCheskey
Westfield would like to say Congratulations to Melissa McCheskey, Housekeeper, for being our April 2024 Employee of the Month! Melissa goes above and beyond making the facility shine!
Centenarians at Taconic Rehabilitation & Nursing at Hopewell
What a wonderful day it was as we celebrated our centenarians at Taconic Rehabilitation & Nursing at Hopewell yesterday! 💛
🎊 Roslyn Tinkelman~100 yrs (left), Margaret Rutledge~106 yrs (center) and Ann Gizzarelli~ 103 were presented with formal Proclamations by Sue Serino, Dutchess County Executive, Ozzy Albra, Fishkill Supervisor and Brian Wrye, Fishkill Board Member.
🍰🎈 Everyone enjoyed music, cake and good company. HAPPY BIRTHDAY Roslyn, Margaret & Ann – we love you! 🥰
Aaron and Ida Washington
Each of our Legends has a ‘Legend’ to tell in their own right, and we wanted to take time to hear the stories from some of our residents here at Taconic at Beacon! 😃📖
Aaron & Ida Washington have been together for 48 years, originally living in Charleston, South Carolina before moving up to Middletown, New York for work. The two of them bought their own house and lived together for years, until a medical condition caused them to be temporarily separated for 8 months. However, thanks to the state Ombudsman program, they’ve been able to live together here at Taconic at Beacon!
In his youth, Aaron played football as wide receiver defensive end and studied Theology in college. Ida worked as a Therapist at the Middletown Center, both of them graduating together after attending university later in life. The two of them enjoy hunting and fishing, telling stories from back in the day of catching tons of fish and crabs in tubs, ‘borrowing’ boats by the creek to scoop them up! Between going to movies and sneaking away with the family bedsheets to climb trees together, their love still shines bright. ☀️
Aaron claims the secret to their long-standing relationship has been to ‘be like a palm tree, blowing and bending and straightening again. Don’t argue, just communicate, and weather the winds.’ To the folks back home, they had the advice to ‘appreciate every moment of your lives. There are no promises of what tomorrow will bring, so enjoy every moment of today, while preparing for anything to follow.”
We’re grateful to have spoken to the Washingtons on their Legendary lives! 💚😄💗