A Red Cross blood drive will be held Thursday, Dec. 3, from noon-6 p.m. at First Mennonite Church, 101 S. Jackson St., Bluffton. Parking is available and the church is handicapped accessible.
Please call 1-800-RED-CROSS or go to redcrossblood.org, sponsor code “fmennbl” to schedule your blood donation appointment. On the day of the blood drive, be prepared to show a donor card, driver's license, or other form(s) of ID.
Randy Cox of Bluffton has been named administrator of Vancrest of Ada nursing home, which is now under construction across from the school and slated to open in February.
Cox has a long history in the nursing home business starting at an early age when his parents owned a nursing home in Ottawa.
He has worked in nursing homes in Virginia, Lima and a Vancrest facility in Holgate.
The 56,000-square-foot Ada facility, located on 18 acres, will have 50 beds for skilled nursing care and 32 assisted living units.
Randy Cox, administrator of Vancrest of Ada nursing home, is now accepting job applications.
The facility, under construction across from the school, will employ people for many departments, including nurses, nurse aides, dietary, housekeeping, laundry, personal care, and activity staff.
Families caring for loved ones with chronic health needs often feel caught in the middle: You want your loved one to have the best care, but you also want him or her to have the comforts of home. With home health care services the goal is to provide both.
November is National Home Care and Hospice Month. As the name implies, home care simply refers to health services that are delivered in a patient’s home. And the services themselves can be quite diverse.
“Some patients receive rehabilitation therapy or skilled nursing care,” said Claudia Crawford, RN, BSN, CHPN supervisor for Community Health Professionals of Ada.
