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CapitalCare Newsletter
CapitalCare Videos
Visit our
YouTube channel. The newest
video,
Coffee Chain, demonstrates the team spirit of CapitalCare
employees and community involvement of a local McDonald's McCafe.
Events
Valentine's Gala - February 14, 2012
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View poster
Make next Valentine's Day a very special one. This Valentine’s Day,
experience the passion and drama of opera, without going to the
opera. Take your sweetheart to the annual Valentine’s Gala at the
Shaw Conference Centre. Experience the passion and drama of opera
without going to the opera. Expect to be wowed by the magical décor,
ambiance and entertainment. Indulge yourself with fine food and
wine.
Dress your best, invite your friends and let the music entertain
you.
Proceeds from this
annual fundraiser benefit Edmonton Opera and CapitalCare Foundation,
two not-for-profit organizations that enrich lives through culture
and caring.
For individual tickets, please contact Sherry Schaefer at
780-448-2430
$525/person
For full table bookings, contact Mary Cousineau at 780-497-3261
CapitalCare
in the News
Making
the visible shift to resident-centred care
It has long been recognized that the kitchen is the heart of
any home, but for far too many elderly residents in
long-term care, comfort can be hard to come by in the
sterile dining halls and kitchens where their meals are
served.
In mid-December, Edmonton’s CapitalCare — Canada’s largest
public long-term care provider — took a grand step towards
bringing comfort back into its oldest kitchens and dining
rooms with the launch of a newly-renovated gathering space
at one of its homes.
Axiom News, January 6 2012
Read more about CapitalCare's dining
room renovations
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Bequest builds
bistro at CapitalCare Norwood Palliative Care
It’s not often that someone leaves
their life savings to a hospital. But Walter Hubschmid was
more than happy to give what he had to the centre where he
spent his final days. With no wife or kids of his own, he
chose to give his $250,000 in savings back to CapitalCare
Norwood. Hubschmid was a former farmer who lost his battle
with emphysema in November of 2009.
Edmonton Sun, October 6 2011
See also
Global TV News, October 6 2011
Download and view the video
(5MB)
Cam Tait's Friday High Five blog, Edmonton Journal, October 7 2011
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Integrated care benefits seniors and cash-strapped
governments
Lillian Clyne is spending the afternoon knitting a
scarf at CapitalCare Norwood in Edmonton, a one-stop
health-care and recreational centre for the elderly with
chronic medical conditions.
Twice a week, a bus picks up Mrs. Clyne at her home and
takes her to the centre, where she is assessed by
medical staff and participates in her favourite
activities – knitting and painting ceramics.
Globe and Mail, July 13 2011 |
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CapitalCare
CHOICE Norwood clients Mary Blaser (L) and Lillian Clyne (R)
knitting with activities convenor
Karen Verhagen |
Senator
Tommy Banks holds piano concert at CapitalCare Grandview
CapitalCare Grandview (Edmonton, Alberta) held a piano concert
featuring jazz pianist and Senator Tommy Banks on June 8, 2011.
The Rotary Club of Edmonton West generously donated the grand
piano to the long-term care facility.
Watch the video.
Learning
how to die can make it a 'joyful time'
What do you say to a dying person? Mostly you just listen.
Edmonton Journal, May 15 2011
Volunteers
offer comfort in final days
Caring for the dying is rewarding duty for special caregivers
Edmonton Journal, May 15 2011
Music therapist Carla Rugg
and Lando, a Canine Assisted Intervention dog visit CapitalCare
Norwood Palliative Hospice
Edmonton Journal photo gallery - April 5
2011
Alberta Health Minister Gene Zwozdesky
takes time out of a
news conference April 5, 2011 to visit with CapitalCare Norwood
resident Joan Jewell. The minister was at Norwood to announce
that emergency room wait times are improving.
See related Edmonton Journal story.
CapitalCare employees find
their jobs rewarding
Rewarding work: it’s not usually the first requirement
job-seekers have in mind when they’re considering a career
opportunity, but it’s what keeps them in their jobs over the
long term. “I love my job,” says Larissa Pope, a registered
nurse who has spent 22 years taking care of people at
CapitalCare Dickinsfield, a north Edmonton long-term
care centre.
Edmonton Woman Magazine - March/April 2011
(pages 20, 22 - ad on page 9)
Computer tool tracks,
improves seniors' care
“Now I’ve started to live my life. It’s changed. I could hardly
lift my hands before — and now I can be more independent,” says
Jerry Onyschuk, 60, who has MS and uses a wheelchair.
Alberta Health Services News and Events,
March 23 2011
The soothing sounds of
music therapy
As the tune of Amazing Grace flows out of a guitar, terminal
cancer patient Neville Nero is taken to another place for a
brief moment where he can forget he is in palliative care. Music
therapist Carla Rugg made her way around Edmonton’s CapitalCare
Norwood Palliative Hospice Sunday afternoon much like she does
every week.
Her job is to bring music, comfort and some relief to families
and patients that are facing death.
Edmonton Sun, March 13 2011
A grand piano arrives at
CapitalCare Grandview
CapitalCare Grandview is home to 145 elderly and disabled
adults who need 24 nursing care and services. The Rotary Club of
Edmonton West supports this centre through donations that
enhance quality of life for residents. Their most recent
donation is a brand new grand piano, valued at $32,000. This
video shows the joy it brought to residents who assembled in
anticipation of the grand piano arriving.
Watch the video
2011 Valentine's Day Gala
The February 14 event was sponsored by Edmonton Opera and
CapitalCare as a fundraising collaboration between continuing
care and the arts.
View the
Edmonton Journal photo gallery.
On November 5, 2010 members of Edmonton Opera paid a surprise
visit to the CapitalCare Kipnes Centre for Veterans.
Watch the video
Health care conference will
learn about help for the dying
EDMONTON - The director of a well-established program in New
York City that trains and supervises volunteer doulas for the
dying will speak for the first time in Canada this week about
how to enhance the care people receive at the end of their
lives.
Edmonton Journal, January 30 2011
Fact Sheets
- Urinary Tract Infections in Long-Term Care -
One of those
problems is infection of the kidneys or bladder, known as
urinary tract infections. Lately, there have been some new ideas
as to exactly what is, and what is not, a real infection of the
urine in long-term care.
(Read more)
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Healthy Skin in Continuing
Care -
Our skin protects us, stretches over our joints, and can heal
itself when it is cut or injured. Unfortunately, many residents
in long term care have skin that is always at risk of injury,
and is slow to heal when it is injured. This may lead to a
pressure ulcer. . .
(read more)
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