Christmas Lunch Survey for Feedback and Ideas
Menno Place loves to celebrate Christmas each year with a Team Member Turkey Dinner, Fixings and Party! We appreciate your feedback on this year’s Christmas lunch in order to make next year even better! Respond to the survey by the end of 2018 (December 31). Fill out my online form.
Pads for Pets – 95 items donated for pets!
Thank you to Linda Redel, Houskeeper at the Hospital who brought forward the idea of collecting used blankets for pets in need. Linda contacted Chloe MacBeth, the Chilliwack Branch Manager of the BC SPCA and arranged a drive at Menno Place to collect even more bed pads for pets. Linda has been gathering and sending […]
Staffing Office Holiday Closures
MENNO HOME, HOSPITAL, APARTMENTS STAFFING OFFICE CLOSED December 25, 2018 For any sick calls on Dec. 25th contact the RN or your department supervisor. Thank you.
December Highlights @ Menno
Home & Hospital Dec 04 Concert in Care 10:30 Hospital Chapel Dec 06 Home Resident Council 2pm MPR Dec 08 Kathy and her piano students 2pm Hospital Chapel Dec 10 Santa visits 1:30-3:30 Hospital Chapel Dec 11 Santa visits 1:30-3:30 Home MPR Dec 11 Prime Time singers 10:30 Hospital Chapel Dec 12 Carter Family 10:30 […]
A Very Merry Victorian Christmas!
What a wonderful time was had by all on Friday December 7th! Thanks to all who helped set up, serve, cook and sing, ensuring all had a wonderful time! The following door prizes are to be picked up at the office of Pearl Nucich:Anitha ThomasGurpreet KaurBarb BoulterKim DuekJudith – E2Dianne BradburyShivonne St.PierreFredene BishippHeidi HildebrandtRoxanne Carlisle
Deadline for WHIMIS Training
WHMIS 2015 Education on Surge Learning – Deadline for Completion Dec. 31, 2018 WHMIS 2015 training is Mandatory at Menno Place as per WorkSafeBC regulations. The deadline for completion of this education is December 31, 2018. If you have not done so, please complete in the next few weeks. You have access to this on […]
Christmas Centerpiece Competition
Congratulations to the following departments for their winning centerpieces:1st Prize – Menno Home W2Runner Up – HR/StaffingIndividual Prize – Lesa TeilmanHonorable Mention – Menno Home Resident Men’s Woodworking Group
Thank you to Our Purdy Elves!
We had a great response to the Purdy’s Corporate Sales and will be sharing the BONUS boxes with our team members at the Christmas Party. Thanks to the Purdy Elves for putting so many packages together!
Christmas Cards for Residents
All staff will once again have the opportunity to sign Christmas Cards for the residents across the campus. Christmas Cards will be available from December 10th to December 19th at Nursing Stations, Reception Desks and Staff Rooms. As we did last year, the cards will already have the name of the resident on them. Please […]
Accreditation Party!!!
We rocked Accreditation – now it’s time to celebrate! Wednesday, December 12th | 11:30am – 1:30pm | Hospital Chapel 99.2% of 534 criteria! You ROCK!!!! Click here to read the details!
Accredited with the highest possible standing by Accreditation Canada
Menno Place (Home and Hospital) earn Exemplary Standing, meeting or exceeding 99.2% of Accreditation standards Accreditation Canada has issued its formal decision letter congratulating Menno Place for achiving Accreditation with Exemplary Standing – the highest possible designation for an accredited organization. Every four years, a team of Accreditation Canada surveyors are invited to Menno Home […]
How You Can offer Emotional Support to Someone who is experiencing a Mental Health Problem
How can you support someone who is experiencing a mental health problem?
Menno Place Team Christmas Party!
Menno Place Team Christmas Party! December 7th! Turkey Dinner – 10:30am – 2:30pm Door prizes | Loaves of Bread Grand Prize Draw at 2pm! Centerpiece Theme: “A Dicken’s Christmas” Must attend the event to enter the draw.
Stop and Think – Managing Your Mood
/in News, Not Myself TodayHymn 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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Stress and Resilience
/in Mental Health, News, Not Myself TodayHymn 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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Talking Openly
/in News, Not Myself TodayHymn 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.
CORky’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 […]