Sycamore Glen Retirement Community has been making summer of memories. They held many fun events for their residents during May and June. National Nursing Home Week was May 11-17 and Sycamore Glen celebrated with a series of theme days. The fun started off with a Mother’s Day “Mardi Gras” themed social. The rest of the…

Civic leaders, Kettering Health Network executives, and staff from the Wound Healing Center at Sycamore celebrated the opening of the new 12-person, multi-place hyperbaric oxygen chamber on April 21 with an open house and ribbon cutting ceremony. This state-or-the-art, hyperbaric oxygen chamber measures 25 feet in length with a 10-foot diameter. This is the largest…

by Wally Sackett Communication is “The transfer of meaning between one mind and another”; I was told by my favorite college professor, Loren Dickinson. Think of it for a moment: transferring meaning. The process of communication is much more nuanced and complex than we often consider. Out of the eight domains in the CMS HCAHPS…