Surge Learning – Sitecode Change
Effective October 15th, your Surge Learning sitecode will change to corp. Example Sally Smith == corp.smits Your password will remain the same and all other functionality will remain the same. Need a refresher on how to login to Surge Learning? Click Here.
Resident and Family Centred Care
Resident and Family Centered Care For 65 years, Menno Place has been caring for seniors with compassionate Christian care. Over the years there have been many changes in how our society cares for the elderly. In 1954, at the beginning of Menno Home care, the average age of an elderly resident was 64 years old! […]
Compassion Fatigue – Watch this Video
SafeCare BC Presents a Webinar on Compassion Fatigue Stress that occurs as a result of trying to help others in need is often referred to as the “cost of caring” and can cause physical and mental exhaustion and emotion withdrawal. Watch to learn more.
Mental Health Awareness Day
World Mental Health Day World Mental Health Day is observed on 10 October every year, with the overall objective of raising awareness of mental health issues around the world and mobilizing efforts in support of mental health. This day provides an opportunity for all stakeholders working on mental health issues to talk about their work, […]
Winners Announced: Safety Education Expo
On October 9, 2019 the Safety Education Expo was held in the Menno Hospital Chapel. 64 team members took part in the event! The topics of the booths covered: Infection Control Emergency Response Body Mechanics A Culture of Safety Preventative Maintenance Mental Health and Wellness Initiatives Resident & Family Centered Care Recreation @ Menno Ethics […]
PNE Harvestland Group Discount
CLICK HERE TO SEE DETAILS ON NEW DISCOUNTS AT PNE HARVESTLAND Menno Group Code: UH7972QM
PNE AURORA Winter Festival Group Discount
CLICK HERE TO SEE DETAILS ON NEW DISCOUNTS AT PNE AURORA WINTER FESTIVAL Menno Group Code: UH7972QM
Test the new GAME APP from SafeCare!
SafeCare BC is launching a mobile game, and they need your help testing it! You’ve been selected to be part of our exclusive testing group. We want your feedback to help us improve the game. After playing the game, we ask that you complete a survey (see details below). The testing process is short […]
Psychological Health & Resiliency Project
Are you a continuing care worker or a student in continuing care work? (e.g. home care, home support, assisted living, acute care). If so, we’d love your input! Dr. Joti Samra, R.Psych and her MyWorkplaceHealth.com team are working with SafeCare BC to develop resources focused on enhancing psychological health, wellness & resiliency for continuing care […]
Hymn Stories – May 2024
/in Important Update, NewsFew hymns paint such a vivd picture of God’s love as this one by Samuel Trevor Francis. Find out more about the hymn, O the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus, and how its author experienced the mercy of God.
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Hymn Stories – April 2024
/in Important Update, NewsThis poem, written by an Irish woman named Jean Sophia Pigott, became the favorite hymn of J. Hudson Taylor, the great missionary to China. Find out how the hymn Jesus, I am Resting, Resting helped strengthen the faith of an overwhelmed man near breakdown.
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Hymn Stories – March 2024
/in Important Update, NewsThe authors of the this month’s modern hymn are committed to creating a more timeless musical style that every generation can sing. Find out more about In Christ Alone by Keith & Kristyn Getty and Stuart Townsend.
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Hymn Stories – February 2024
/in Important Update, NewsThis month’s hymn is Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty penned by English minister, Reginald Heber, in the early 19th century. Heber was a gifted poet and hymnist who faithfully served his small congregation. After his death, his widow discovered he had written over 50 hymns. She succeeded in publishing his work and brought them to the forefront of the Christian community.
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Hymn Stories – January 2024
/in Important Update, NewsJanuary’s hymn is Trusting Jesus. This textually and musically simple expression of child-like trust in Jesus has met the daily spiritual needs of many of God’s people to the present time.
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Nominate a Team Member! Team Appreciation!
/in Important Update, NewsJanuary 25th will be a celebration of Service Awards and three categories of awards for staff members who are nominated for three awards recognizing Outstanding Contribution – click here to find out more
Hymn Stories – December 2023
/in Important Update, NewsJoy is the keynote of the entire Advent season, especially for the Christian, who realizes its spiritual significance – God Himself invading this world and providing a means whereby sinful man might live eternally. Joy to the World is generally considered to be one of the most joyous Christmas hymns in existence, not in the sense of merry-making, but in the deep and solemn realization of what Christ’s birth has meant to mankind. Find out more about this hymn by Isaac Watts.
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Hymn Stories – November 2023
/in Important Update, NewsI am Trusting Thee, Lord Jesus is one of the child-like, but beautiful expressions from the soul of the esteemed English poetess, Frances Ridley Havergal, often referred to as “the Sweetest Voice of Hymnody.” Find out more about this hymn!
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Time Change Sunday November 5
/in Apartments, Events, HOME, HOSPITAL, Important Update, NewsDaylight Savings ENDS on Sunday November 5 at 2am.
Hymn Stories – October 2023
/in Important Update, NewsThe writer of Count Your Blessings, Rev. Johnson Oatman Jr., was one of the important and prolific gospel song writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Find out more about this gospel song!
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Hymn Stories – September 2023
/in Important Update, NewsThe Love of God, written and composed by Frederick M. Lehman by 1919, has its roots in a Jewish poem, written in Germany in the eleventh century. The Jewish poem, Hadamut, in the Aramaic language, has ninety couplets. Find out more about this gospel song!
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Hymn Stories – August 2023
/in Important Update, NewsThe beloved gospel hymn, All The Way My Savior Leads Me, written by Franny Crosby was the expression of gratitude to God after a direct and peculiar answer to prayer. Find out more about this hymn!
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Hymn Stories – July 2023
/in Important Update, NewsWritten and published in 1833, O Worship the King, is considered one of the finest hymns from the early nineteenth century Romantic Era. It has often been called a model hymn for worship. Find out more about this hymn and its author, Robert Grant.
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Hymn Stories – June 2023
/in Important Update, NewsIt was in 1912 that C. Austin Miles was asked to write a hymn text that would be “sympathetic in tone, breathing tenderness in every line; one that would bring hope to the hopeless, rest for the weary, and downy pillows to dying beds.” Find out more about In The Garden.
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Hymn Stories – May 2023
/in Important Update, NewsJoyful, Joyful We Adore Thee, which is sung to the music of Beethoven’s “Hymn of Joy”, is generally considered by hymnologists to be one of the most joyous expressions of hymn lyrics in the English language. Find out more about this hymn inspired by the Berkshire mountains!
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COR Audit starts Monday!
/in COR, Important Update, NewsAre you ready if the auditor speaks to you? Review the Health & Safety Audit questions and answers! The audit takes place May 1 – 3, 2023.
Stop and Think – Managing Your Mood
/in News, Not Myself TodayCORky’s Back! – The COR Questions & Answers
/in COR, Important Update, NewsOn May 1 – 3, 2023, Menno Place will be having our annual COR Health & Safety Audit. You may be asked to meet with the auditor. Let’s all be ready! Watch your email over the coming weeks for review questions and answers to strengthen your COR knowledge.
SAFETY IS NO ACCIDENT – THE COR QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
/in COR, News“You’re going to fly through this!” – CORky, the SAFETY HERO May 1-3, 2023 If you don’t know the answer, say, “I would ask my supervisor” Review the key COR questions: RESPONSIBLILTY Can you describe your health and safety responsibilities? Protect my health and safety and the health and safety of others Follow established safe work […]
Hymn Stories – April 2023
/in Important Update, NewsChrist the Lord is Risen Today was written by Charles Wesley in 1739 for the first chapel service held in a deserted iron foundry in London, England, which later became known as the Foundry Meeting House. Find out more about this hymn!
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