The entire iCare team is excited to celebrate National Skilled Nursing Care Week, often called Nursing Home Week, this week May 8-14th.  According to the American Health Care Association (AHCA) website, skilled nursing care centers and their staff provide a​ steadfast commitment to providing high-level of care for their residents. This has never been more evident than the last two years during the pandemic. In addition to protecting and caring for their residents around the clock du…

National Nurses Week begins each year on May 6th and ends on May 12th, Florence Nightingale’s birthday. Nurses Day and Week promote nursing professionals for their dedication and commitment to advancing the health care field and is organized by the American Nurses Association (ANA).  Nurses provide care in every healthcare setting, in difficult situations and conditions and often at great personal sacrifice. This is a time to celebrate and honor the hard work, sacrifice, commitment, and…

Westside Care Center’s Dahlia Francis, LPN, will receive the 2022 Nightingale Award for Excellence in Nursing in a virtual ceremony hosted by Hartford Healthcare at Home. Nightingale Award winners are recognized for making a significant impact on patient care and the nursing profession, going beyond the call, demonstrating excellence, showing commitment to the community served and achieving a lifelong legacy. According to her nomination, Dahlia has been with Westside Care Center for over…

On Thursday, April 21, 2022, the team from Touchpoints at Bloomfield hosted a breakfast event at the Windsor Senior Center for 50 town residents.  Events such as these, hosted by the Touchpoints team, had been a regular occurrence prior to the onset of the COVID pandemic and thus this was the first time returning in just over two years.  A delicious breakfast was prepared in the Touchpoints kitchen and transported to the Senior Center for service to the folks in attendance.  Pictured a…

For more than 20 years, Chris Wright has been doing what many other nursing home operators either can’t or won’t: taking patients with behavioral health diagnoses, treating them with embedded, additional services, and becoming a valued community partner while building value in his own business. Following an expansion of his iCare Health Network last year, Wright remains bullish on building and managing behavioral health and other speciality services. But even as regulators put more emphasis …