Month: December 2016

When our daughter was a teenager, we had a standing rule at our house.  We ate spaghetti every Friday night for dinner.  We didn’t do that because we especially loved spaghetti.  We did that because I used plenty of garlic in my homemade red sauce.  My husband was sure that if we sent our daughter […]

There are lots of good things about living in a nursing home.  At the top of the list is the fact that the elderly resident is never isolated. There are scores of activities planned to keep everybody busy. Even the residents who might not be physically able to participate, still get one on one visits […]

Mrs. Ruth Jones lives at Integrity Healthcare of Ridgway.  She has turned her private room into a beautiful suite, complete with a refrigerator, love seat and her own full sized bed! Ruth was very well acquainted with the Ridgway facility when she moved in because she had served as our Director of Nursing in the […]

Betty Schmidt and her family lived in Columbia and now she resides at Integrity Healthcare of Columbia. She and her husband raised 3 girls and 3 boys and she is blessed with 5 grandchildren! She was employed for many years as a switchboard operator at Southwest Bell Telephone Company, and she was very active in her […]

A few days ago, Carter Phillips visited Integrity Healthcare of Alton. His arms were full of gifts for the facility’s residents. His delightful smile was big, but not nearly as big as his gigantic heart! Carter turned seven this year and instead of asking for birthday presents, he told his family and friends to buy […]

One of the little ladies who lives at Integrity Healthcare of Carbondale calls me “Doris”.  I am “Debbie”. Doris was my mother.  Another resident at the facility knows me and knew my mother, so he corrected this little lady the other day telling her that I was Doris’ daughter.  She waved her hand at him […]

There are good people everywhere.  In one of our Integrity Healthcare Communities, we have a husband and wife team at work.  Recently, their furnace stopped working, and because they have a small child, they knew they had to get it fixed.  Money was tight, so they shopped around until they found a repairman who would […]