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Life Care Facilities LIFE CARE A tradition ofWhere service we since are located 1976 LEA2017 Edition DER Arizona Hilliard Muncie Missouri Rhode Island Utah Chandler Jacksonville New Albany Bridgeton East Providence Bountiful Glendale Lauderhill Rensselaer Brookfield Johnston Salt Lake City Globe Lecanto Rochester Cape Girardeau Payson Melbourne Valparaiso Carrollton South Carolina Virginia Phoenix New Port Richey West Lafayette Chesterfield Charleston New Market Scottsdale Ocala Whiting Florissant Columbia Sierra Vista Orange Park Grandview Hilton Head Washington Tucson Orlando Kansas Humansville Federal Way Yuma Palm Bay Andover St. Louis Tennessee Friday Harbor Palm Beach Gardens Burlington Sullivan Antioch Gig Harbor California Pensacola Kansas City Waynesville Athens Kennewick Barstow Port St. Lucie Osawatomie Bruceton Kirkland Bellflower Punta Gorda Overland Park Nebraska Centerville Marysville Escondido Sarasota Seneca Elkhorn Chattanooga Mt. Vernon Garden Grove West Palm Beach Wichita Omaha Cleveland Port Orchard La Habra Winter Haven Collegedale Port Townsend La Mirada Kentucky Nevada Columbia Puyallup Lake Forest Georgia La Center Las Vegas Crossville Richland Menifee Lawrenceville Morehead Reno Dayton Sedro Woolley Norwalk Thomasville Paducah Ducktown Spokane Vista New Mexico East Ridge Hawaii Massachusetts Farmington Elizabethton Wyoming Colorado Hilo Acton Gray Casper Alamosa Kailua-Kona Attleboro North Carolina Greeneville Cheyenne Aurora Kapolei Auburn Banner Elk Hixson Sheridan Cañon City Fitchburg Hendersonville Jefferson City Carbondale Idaho Leominster Louisville Colorado Springs Boise Littleton Ohio Lynchburg Denver Coeur d’Alene Lynn Columbus Morristown Unpredictable Effie Evergreen Idaho Falls New Bedford Elyria Old Hickory Fort Morgan Lewiston North Billerica Medina Ooltewah Greeley Post Falls Plymouth Westlake Rutledge Effie Woodruff Lakewood Sandpoint Raynham Sparta Littleton Twin Falls Scituate Oregon Tullahoma Longmont Stoneham Coos Bay Wartburg Head in the Clouds Parker Indiana West Bridgewater Eugene Pueblo Crawfordsville Wilbraham McMinnville Texas Loyal Kelsey Salida Evansville Corpus Christi Westminster Fort Wayne Michigan Pennsylvania Fort Worth Indianapolis Plainwell Honey Brook Houston It All Changed in 1939 Florida LaGrange Riverview Plano (423) 472-9585 Ann & Alec Kaminski Altamonte Springs Michigan City LCCA.com Estero Mitchell A PUBLICATION OF LIFE CARE CENTERS OF AMERICA Forrest L. Preston 2017 Edition Chairman’s Column A PUBLICATION OF LIFE CARE CENTERS OF AMERICA Never, Never, Never, Never Give Up S he was a woman of grace It is incredible to consider William David Jones........................................... 2 and beauty, endowed with all that has happened since Life Care Center of Gwinnett (GA) a charm that drew others to that long-shot, cold call Short-term resident her. And if you were around made on Carl Campbell at Dorothy Giehm long, your his nursing home company Unpredictable Effie Effie Woodruff laughter had a little more lilt in Wenatchee, Washington, .......................................................... 6 Life Care Center of Sandpoint (ID) to it and your step a bit more in 1967. His trust in us gave spring in it. us the opportunity to open She had a love affair with the door of our dreams and The Trials of Ronald Dion life, and her ardor for it walk through it. Ronald Dion.............................................................. 10 enveloped those who came As we reflect on the Life Care Center of Altamonte Springs (FL) near her. She pursued the opening of the first facility, Photography Henderson Amy by photo Cover relationship passionately Garden Terrace Convalescent Life Care Leader is published annually by Life Care Head in the Clouds and with determination. As and her mirth in particular. Center, in 1970, and the Centers of America for our residents, the corporate family Loyal Kelsey............................................................... 14 and friends of Life Care. a result, the fruits of peace, You couldn’t be in her incorporation of Life Care Life Care Center of Greeley (CO) joy, happiness and fulfillment presence without the Centers of America six years Chairman abounded within her soul. laughter. It was the magic later, the only response is one FORREST L. PRESTON Mrs. Giehm’s wonderful that captivated me when she of gratitude to a faithful God A Story of Resilience journey into three centuries – was but 103 years old and and the commitment President Doreen Menzies................................................... 18 consider that amazing “adopted” me as her nephew. of thousands of associates BEECHER HUNTER Life Care Center of Palm Bay (FL) statement – came to an end It was the same who live out our mission on Feb. 4, 2000, at Life Care enchantment that she cast every day. Editor LEIGH ATHERTON A Life of Energy Center of Tucson, Arizona, over our entire management In both instances, they are James Wheeler...................................................... 22 where she was a resident at meeting when she came to extremely important to our Associate Editor Life Care Center of Ocala (FL) the place she proudly called Cleveland, Tennessee, in future. And to those we do DARA CARROLL her home. 1998 at 106. To all Life Care and will serve. associates attending that Art Director Pass It On Less than one month Mary LeFaivre.......................................................... 26 gathering, Dorothy Giehm ROB PAUZA before, on Jan. 10, Mrs. Life Care Center of Carrollton (MO) was an icon for what Life Giehm celebrated her Permission to reprint any portion of Life Care Leader text 108th birthday anniversary, Care Centers of America is or photographs may be granted upon written request. surrounded by family and all about. Forrest L. Preston Comments and suggestions are welcome. Please address Tales of a Treasure-Handler friends. It was a remarkable Even though it is a Chairman them to: Fred Rymer................................................................. 30 and memorable occasion, business, with issues of Life Care Center of Morristown (TN) with gifts, hugs aplenty, management contracts, LIFE CARE LEADER Life Care Public Relations refreshments and lots of mortgages, accounts payable P.O. Box 3480 It All Changed in 1939 laughter. and receivable, census, Cleveland, Tennessee 37320 Ann & Alec Kaminski........................................ 34 We first met at a luncheon demographics and turnover, (423) 473-5533 Life Care Center of Charleston (SC) in the center five years earlier. Life Care has always been A catalyst in the development about the Dorothy Giehms An equal opportunity employer of our friendship was her of this land and their male © 2017 Life Care Centers of America For the Love of the Game gregarious nature in general counterparts. Andy Laska................................................................ 40 Life Care Center of Auburn (MA) Never, never, never, NEVER give up. William David Jones By Xavier Jasso It is the summer of 1952. Six- reputation as one of the world’s Jones was placed in an isolation year-old William David Jones most feared diseases. A highly ward with other polio patients. and his father are spending the contagious virus that causes Since little was known about the evening in the living room of multiple levels of paralysis, disease besides its symptoms their home in Rome, Georgia. polio’s peak was the very year and its contagious nature, Noting the time, Jones wishes Jones was diagnosed: 1952. the patients were often left in his father goodnight and heads isolation for weeks or months. to bed. Halfway across the living Halfway up the In some cases, patients would room, he collapses to the floor. also suffer paralysis of the Concerned, his father asks him staircase, his legs buckle diaphragm and would be what happened. confined to the infamous Iron “Well,” responds Jones. “I again and he falls all the Lung machine for years. really don’t know.” Although he was scared and Jones stands back up and way to the bottom. isolated, Jones’ family helped begins the walk up the stairs to him remain hopeful. Not even an his bedroom. Halfway up the In the United States alone, isolation chamber would keep staircase, his legs buckle again 57,879 reports of polio covered them apart for long. Photoby David Smith and he falls all the way to the the nation in a shroud of “One time my father brought bottom. His father rushes over. terror. 21,269 individuals were a stepladder to the hospital,” “You’re burning up.” paralyzed; 3,145 died. There was recalled Jones. “He placed it “I’m… I’m freezing.” no cure for the epidemic, and against the exterior wall and His father carries him to the nation watched in horror as climbed up and talked to me bed. That same night, the local wave after wave of the horrible through the window. The doctors pediatrician makes a house disease struck, knowing they and nurses asked him, ‘Mr. Jones, call to see Jones. After an were completely defenseless. The what are you doing? This is an examination, the doctor turns to first successful vaccine would Jones’ parents. not be developed and released “It appears David has until 1955. poliomyelitus.” Due to the limited treatment resources at the hospital in Striking without warning and Rome, Jones was transferred to a capable of crippling or killing trauma center at Grady Hospital within hours, polio earned its in Atlanta. Totally paralyzed, 2 3 isolation ward!’ to which he said Jones. “He looked at her however, he faced the obstacle responded, ‘Are there signs