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We recently received this beautiful note that our Director of Nursing at Integrity Healthcare of Anna shared with her team.  It says everything you need to know about Care You Can Trust! Good morning everyone, I want to share a praise note with you all. This morning I was sitting in my office working on […]

Mama loved her manicures! She did her own!  She taught her daughters and her granddaughters the techniques of painting nails with long even strokes of the tiny brush. She taught them how to take care of their cuticles and how to shape the length of their nails. She taught them the significance of using creams […]

By:  Rick Weber, Director of Business Development at Integrity Healthcare of Columbia I had the pleasure of sitting and talking to Ms. Nelda Brightwell about her courage bound journey through our extensive rehab program, these past couple months. Not only did we discuss the strength that was bestowed upon herself to reach her goals, but […]

My cousin just celebrated her 90th birthday!  She is almost 30 years older than I am because she was born to my daddy’s oldest sister when, my daddy was just 6 years old! I want to be just like her when I turn 90!  She is surrounded by grand kids and great-grand kids! She is […]

I looked across the room, and she was moving her lips along with the entertainer.  She knew every word to his song. She was singing quietly, not just the chorus but every word to every verse.  I suspect that she doesn’t know a single thing about today’s iPhones, but she sure knows how to sing […]

“Move over, grand kids … I gotta Wii.”  For years, these words have been spoken in households all across America!  When grandparents find out how much fun it is to bowl or play tennis using Nintendo’s Wii simulation game, they take over the family room! The love of Wii has grown in several Integrity Healthcare […]

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 […]