50 Sheffield Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11207
January 2017
UPCOMING EVENTS
January 4th
Monthly Birthday Party
A note from the Administrator
I hope everyone enjoyed their Christmas and
January 6th
Epiphany
Dias de los Reyes
January 16th
Martin Luther King
January 25th
Cooking Club
Chicken Noodle Soup
New Year’s celebrations! As we welcome in the New Year, we
renew our sense of hope and anticipation. At Bushwick Center,
our skillful choir brought about that sense of renewal.
Peggy Miller had her own vision of renewal. In early 2016, Peggy
verbalized interest in assembling a resident choir and after
much hard work, dedication, teamwork, and practice, her dream
quickly transformed into reality. Along with several other
residents and volunteers, our choir imbued our entire Bushwick
Center family with tremendous joy and spirit through their
breathtaking performance.
February 1st
Monthly Birthday Party
February 2nd
Groundhog Day
February 14th
Valentine’s Day
February 20th
President’s Day
February 22nd
Cooking Club
Beef Patties
Peggy’s inspiriation is our inspiration. As we usher in the New
Year, I challenge everyone to create, identify, and grasp onto
something inspirational. Our devoted choir has infused our
entire facility with positivity and elevated our spirits. Richard
Leider, one of America’s executive-life coaches, famously said
“the purpose of life is to live life with a purpose”. Each of us
have a purpose regardless of our limitations. Each of us must
recognize our individual, and collective, purposes and together
we will continue to enrich each other’s lives here at Bushwick
Center.
May this upcoming year bring happiness, health and prosperity
to our residents, our staff, and our extended Bushwick Center
family!
Moshe Blackstein
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BLACK HISTORY MONTH
January 2017
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains but to
live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of
others.” Nelson Mandela
“I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired
of giving up.” Rosa Parks
“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be
defeated.” Maya Angelou
“It’s not easy to be independent when you’ve got money.
But to be independent when you haven’t got a thing—
that’s the Lord’s test.” Mahalia Jackson
“Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never
really knew.” Cicely Tyson
“We are makers of history. We are made by history.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“I consider myself a crayon…I might not be your favorite
color, but one day you’re going to need me to complete your
picture. Lauryn Hill
January 2017
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“I HAVE A DREAM”
Speech by the Rev. Martin Luther King at the “March on Washington”
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as
the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our
nation………………….
I say to you today, my friends, though, even though we face the
difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream
deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this
nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold
these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia sons of
former slave and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even
the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of
freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the
content of their character. I have a dream.. I have a dream that one day Alabama, with its vicious racists, with the governor having his lips
dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, one day tight the in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join
hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today…I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low. The rough places
will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight. And the glory of the Lord shall revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone
of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this
faith we will be able to work together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning. “My country, ‘tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I
sing. Land where my fathers died. Land of the pilgrim’s pride, from every mountain side, let freedom ring.” And if America is to be a great
nation, this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains
of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. Let freed ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado. Let
freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.
But not only that. Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi, from every
mountain side. Let freedom ring…..
When we allow freedom to ring—when we let it ring from every city and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed
up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and
sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last, Free at Last, Great God a-mighty, We are free at last.”
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January 2017
COLOR ME!
COLOR ME!
January 2017
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Looking back at 2016 at Bushwick Center
Looking back at the events at Bushwick Center like the Art club, Halloween Party, Choir Concert, First
Responders lunch delivery, Cinco de Mayo, Veterans Day, Family Fun Day and Ice cream for NYPD.
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January 2017
A note from Kenny
Happy New Year! I hope you all had an enjoyable holiday season. This season we
hosted wonderful parties at all of our facilities, special gatherings made even more
memorable by the attendance of so many friends and families. And our staff appreciation
parties which began in December are continuing well into February and March.
Looking back on the year just ended, I’m so proud of the men and women who make this company the
wonderful organization it is – a comfortable home to thousands of people, a reliable rehabilitation partner to
thousands more, a trusted partner in healthcare to medical practices and hospitals across the northeast,
and an integral part of the fabric of the communities we serve. But the start of the year is really a time for
looking forward, and our future together is brighter than ever. We continue to grow by adding facilities and
services to our family and to bring our special brand of care and five-star compassion to more and more
people every year. We expect that you’ll be reading about even more new facilities in these pages as the
year advances. And we continue to innovate in a never-ending quest to bring our residents the very latest
in care procedures. We are expanding our training and in-service program, teaching our nursing staff the
very latest in procedures and protocols. Our goal is ensure that every care giver at Centers Health Care
has the training they need to provide for the unique medical needs of each and every resident. And we
continue to improve our facilities inside and out with continual renovation and upgrades.
So as we greet the New Year with renewed sense of hope and enthusiasm, let me offer all of you our very
best wishes for a joyous and healthy 2017.
Kenny Rozenberg, CEO
We have the nicest residents anywhere!
And they proved it once again this
past holiday season. Residents at
every single facility in the Centers
Health Care family made Christmas
and Chanukah holiday greeting
cards for our men and women
serving overseas in America’s
armed forces. More than 10,000
hand-made cards filled with
gratitude, love and good wishes
were forwarded to our Buffalo
Center. From there,
representatives from the National
Guard and Veterans of Foreign
Wars were on hand to gather up
the cards and arrange for them to
be shipped overseas and
eventually make their way to various military installations, forward operating bases and ships. We all owe all
service men and women a deep debt of gratitude, and our residents are doing their part. Thank you to
everyone who participated in this event.
January 2017
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Everyone’s following Centers!
Are you following all the happenings at Centers of Facebook? If not,
get started! In the last three months, more than 450,000 people were
touched by our Facebook presence. Some of them liked an event at
one of our facilities – maybe yours. Others heard about a community
event we were sponsoring or went to one of our pages to sign up or to look at all the photos of our activities
(and see if their photo made the news!). Hundreds of thousands of people can’t be wrong. You can follow one
facility, or all of them, and if you want just a taste of what’s happening, follow us at
www.facebook.com/centershealthcare. It’s the one place you need to go to find about contests, activities and
all the exciting news.
Do we have a winner? No, we have TWO!
This year, two Centers residents were recognized for a very special achievement. Their art work was chosen
to be included in the 12th Annual Art From The Heart calendar. The Art From The heart Program is sponsored
by the Foundation for Quality Care and the New York State Health Facilities Association. Talented artists
from skilled nursing facilities and assisted living facilities from every corner of the state compete for this honor
but only 13 pieces can be chosen for reproduction in the state’s calendar. We’re so proud of all our artists,
and want to offer special congratulations to Roger Baker and Gladys Maloney for having their works selected
for publication in 2017.
Winter Sky by Roger Baker
Essex Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare
Appearing on the calendar in January 2017
Wash Day by Gladys Maloney
Fulton Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare
Appearing on the calendar in July 2017
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January 2017
Employee of the Month
for
January 2017
Happy Birthday!
January Birthdays
Irene Kolanek 1.1
Nelson Concepcion 1.1
Robert Gripper 1.2
Daisy Muniz 1.6
Yvette Parker 1.10
Mary Jansen 1.12
James Brown Jr. 1.12
Fletcher Goldstein 1.15
Edward Towe 1.17
Katherine Jervis 1.18
Juana Rosado 1.22
Velvette Holmes 1.25
February Birthdays
Brinell East, Dietary Aide
Brinell East Dietary Aide has been in this facility
for over 20 years. She is married with 3 children.
Whenever you see Brinell she always has a smile on
her face or is singing which she loves to do. She is
one person that is always feeling happy no matter
what. She makes you feel good inside. She is great
with the residents and they love her. It is really good
to have someone with a positive attitude around and
that person is Brinell our Employee of the Month of
January 2017.
Elizer Vega 2.1
Lois Buckley 2.2
Freddie Correa 2.2
Alverna Williams 2.5
Pamela Decoteau 2.5
Ernest Diglio 2.10
Allen Parker 2.11
Cecil Rollocks 2.12
Robert Ferlito 2.13
Chiu Shek 2.17
Timothy Washington 2.18
Ramona Martinez 2.19
Charliemae Crawford 2.20
Umadah Lilman 2.23
Margaret Smith 2.25
Constance Adams 2.26
David Camacho 2.26
Lovee Fluker 2.27
Patricia King 2.27
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