Marathon Healthcare Center Celebrates National Nursing Home Week

As a society, we often wonder where the days have gone when young people offered an unsolicited helping hand, a kind gesture, or an expression of gratitude to our elder generation. This week, the staff, residents, and friends of Marathon Healthcare Center of Torrington celebrate the very special importance that such expressions of kindness, admiration, and service for our elders represent for our community. Throughout the United States, skilled nursing facilities are celebrating National Nursing Home Week from May 11 through May 16, and we here at Torrington have put together a wonderful schedule of events to make this year especially beautiful.

We kicked the week off on Monday morning. All the staff donned red “We Love Our Residents” buttons which will be worn like badges of honor throughout the week. At 9AM, we welcomed 12 students from the Brio Academy of Cosmetology who volunteered their time and excellent work, providing complete makeovers including hair cuts, sets, styling, manicures, hand massages and makeup. We thank the students at Brio who provided these services with utmost professionalism, respect, kindness and compassion.

On Tuesday, we honored an excellent group of community volunteers who devote so much of their time, talents and vibrant enthusiasm to Marathon’s residents on a daily basis, with a buffet style luncheon, complete with live entertainment and a certificate ceremony.

Four agricultural students from Womogo Regional High School joined our residents on this beautiful, Spring Wednesday morning, to help plant a butterfly garden in the facility courtyard, with plants and flowers donated by Christine’s flower shoppe, Moscarillo’s garden shoppe and our facility’s dedicated staff.

The week’s festivities culminate on Friday afternoon with our first Spring kickoff BBQ, a resident and staff social in the courtyard now beautifully decorated with a fresh new garden. Nursing Home Week at Marathon Healthcare Center is a great time for our residents, staff and community to reflect on the gifts that we have been provided by our elderly generation, and to celebrate the kindness, love and service that make skilled nursing facilities like ours run so well.

We would like to thank everyone who has given so much of themselves to our beautiful home, especially those volunteers and community members that have joined us to celebrate this wonderful week.

Residents and Staff members of Marathon Healthcare Center of Torrington