On February 28, 2024 the team at Touchpoints at Chestnut took a moment to celebrate a big achievement: the care center’s return to Five Star designation with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)! According to the CMS website, CMS created the Five-Star Quality Rating System to help consumers, their families, and caregivers compare nursing homes more easily and to help identify areas about which they want to ask questions. The Nursing Home Compare Web site features a quality rati…

On February 6, 2024, as part of Black History Month, the team at Touchpoints at Chestnut celebrated the life of music legend Bob Marley.  Staff and residents enjoyed listening to his music and shared Jamaican beef patties and cocoa bread.  February 6th is Bob Marley Day. Nesta Robert “Bob” Marley was born February 6, 1945 in Nine Mile, Jamaica. He emerged as the single most influential reggae musician of all time and is closely associated with Jamaican national identity and Rastafarian …

February is designated as American Heart Month to bring attention and awareness to the prevalence and severity of heart disease in the United States. Touchpoints at Manchester staff and residents wore red on February 2, 2024 for National Wear Red Day which is held the first Friday of every February to help raise awareness around heart disease. 

January 22-28 is National Activities Professional Week with a theme of “Innovate, Inspire, Involve”. On this week we celebrate all of iCare’s Therapeutic Recreation, Life Enrichment and Activities Professionals as they bring fun, engagement, enrichment and fulfillment to our residents’ lives. 

Last week the staff and residents at Touchpoints at Manchester were treated to a performance by a special guest, Mr. Elvis Presley. Well, Elvis times two, really. Straight from the gates of Graceland, the King and the other King dropped by to celebrate his own birthday, January 8th. The Elvises (Elvi?) made their way through the resident care units, driving the crowds wild with their dancing and playing all the hits. It appears these particular Elvi showed up from the early 1970’s. Much to …