BradleyHealthcare celebrates 60th anniversary Nursing Home Week
Cleveland Daily BannerMay 21, 2017
Not only did their big party serve to cap off the National
"We are so excited about celebrating 60 years. No other facility in the area can say they've been around for 60 years ? even this year we won for the
"Also, we're trying to set up some new programs with our skilled nursing rehabilitation and we're excited about that as well."
Future 60th anniversary festivities are in the works, as the facility continues to celebrate the milestone.
"It's quite a landmark event for any facility to survive 60 years in this day and age where we are buying and selling facilities left and right ? for one county to keep and maintain a facility this long is really a credit to the government and citizens of the county," BHRC Administrator
The facility normally holds a party for its employees to honor National
The secret for Oliver's smoked barbecue?
"Slow going," he declared.
"It takes 17 hours a batch and it's all in the rub and the wood."
The mood was festive, as employees and their families, as well as residents and their families, enjoyed the barbecue shindig.
"I've been here for 10 years now and it's a great place to be. There's a family kind of feeling, it's almost a small town inside there and that's nice," floor technician
Nursing Director
"(We) are still caring for the people of our community and delivering quality care, adding technology daily to speed up that care and give it more efficiency," Lingo said.
"The training of our nurses and the new techniques and things they can use to care for our cardiac and stroke patients is very exciting to me - we're growing the field of what we can do to care for our residents and the community of Bradley County."