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PLEASE NOTE: ROAD WORKS IN PROGRESS

PLEASE BE AWARE OF ROADWORKS GOING ON OUTSIDE THE BUILDING.

You will need to be accompanied by staff or family to leave the building during this time.

22 Norman Street PORT PIRIE

Email: reception@stjosephshouse.net.au

Ph: (08) 8632 1450 Fax: (08) 8633 0790 ABN 43 431300 853

St Joseph’s House J.M.J.

Hospitality, Justice, Loyalty, Patience, Compassion

February 2017

THIS MONTHS ISSUE

AGM Message Biscuit Decorating

& Information Compliments,

Complaints & Comments Welcome & Farewell Staff

Catering get

Creative Lifestyle Message Joke Corner Hospitality

Message Brain Games Guess who turned

50! Birthday’s

Upcoming Events Resident Feedback

Colouring

UPCOMING EVENTS

Music with Les Rich Table Tennis

Cafe Visit Pampurr Room Walk in the Park

Belly Dancing with Jill Birthday Celebrations

Valentines Day!

Resident Liaison Officer

Marra Pearn

86321450 0400095339

Aged Rights Advocacy Service

(ARAS) 1800 500 853

Aged Care Complaints

Commissioner 1800 550 552

Around the Home

Mobile Library Wednesday fortnightly

Please see lifestyle if You wish to join.

MASS

In house Mass Wednesday at 10:30am

Upstairs at St Marks

Lisa Caputo I like it here at St Joes, I have no complaints, everyone including the staff is wonderful and the food is okay.

Greetings Residents and Families,

The Board and Executive have spent time working on our Regional Strategic Plan and our vision for the future. It is expected that later in February that our renewed vision and mission will be released along with our new website and facebook page. This is particularly important given all the changes that will be implemented for Community Clients. We are pleased to report that we will be able to provide community services in Port Pirie from the end of February. I am excited by this prospect. The care and comfort of our residents is important to The Board Executive and Staff. We are pleased to report that we were compliant in all areas following a spot visit in the first week of the year. We have also listened to recent feedback and the resident menu has been tweaked to meet the requests. Thankyou for your feedback it is appreciated. Please feel free to see senior staff if there is anything on your mind that you wish to discuss.

Warm Wishes, Darylin Cowling

Brian Rutgers

17th February

Ruth Tavender

6th February

RESIDENT & FAMILY

MEETING

17th February 2017

10:30am ST CLARE UPSTAIRS

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Around the Home! Around the Home!

Happy Birthday Marra

who turned the big 5 0 on January the 17th!

Teacup & Butterfly Biscuit Making!

What you'll need!

- Tic Toc Biscuits - Marshmallows

- Freckles - Musk Lifesavers

- Musk Sticks - Spearmint Leaves

- Red Clouds - Liquorice strap

- Icing

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Answers

SYMPATHY

May She Rest in Peace

We Offer our deepest sympathy to the family and friends of the late:

Helen Veitch

Lost Property Table

Laundry have set up a table across from the hairdressers with un-named clothing that belong to

residents.

The table will be there until Monday 13th February.

New Stock!

- Small flower arrangements

- Small lolly baskets - Gift cards

Everyone is welcome to come and have a

browse!

WELCOME TO NEW STAFF:

Chantelle Spencer Toni Patmore Harry Willis

Jessica Wilson

FAREWELL TO STAFF:

Gaylene Giddings Scout Remphrey

ADVANCED CARE DIRECTIVES

Advanced Care

Directives for all Care Recipients are still

continuing

COMPLIMENT AND COMPLAINT PROCESS

St Joseph’s House supports the rights of Care Recipients and their Advocates to share

compliments, feedback, concerns or to make a

complaint.

If you wish to make a comment or complaint

please feel free to approach any

senior staff member or contact Darylin Cowling (AGM) or Marra Pearn

(Resident Liaison Officer)

If you wish to lodge a formal complaint please complete a “Comments & Complaints”

form which is available from the Reception foyer and

place it in an envelope for delivery to

Administration.

Once the form is completed the CQI Co-ordinator will

make a record of lodgement and the

suggestion or concern is then followed through until resolution is achieved.

Brain Games Answers on Pg 10 Compliments, Complaints, Comments

Hi everyone, Well the start of the year has gone so fast. I have spent this first month sorting through my workload and getting things archived. We continue to implement some improvements which you may sometimes not notice as they may be behind the scenes. We currently have 2 EN students with us doing their Placement. We will continue to have students throughout the year, both EN’s and PCA’s. As you know there is a lot of road works happening outside of St Joseph’s so please be mindful of this is you’re planning a visit or an Outing. Kind Regards Carol CQI/WHS

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Airconditioner

Beach

Iceblocks

Icecream

Hot

Sunscreen

Sweat

Summer

Hat

Ice

M L V P F Y M B X U S N X R

A D W Z T A E H N U A V E X

E O W A U L X G N H M N J Z

R W H B Y S H S O P O Z L O

C D O J U G C H N I Q T D I

E U F M J R J U T S G M G A

C B M T E X O I K E Z I O F

I E C E J H D C S B Q N V N

R K N U U N O O E W K Z J N

N V M G O L G A L C J A Q D

Q N T C B C C C O S Z A V M

X F R E O H N T A E W S X Z

M I C G D E C I S D R P I L

A I F M V L Y U W C D U E Z

Hi from Hospitality………………

Philip has been on leave and we hope he is feeling

better soon.

Alley and Marra have been working together to keep things

going…

As you will see throughout the newsletter pictures of the

lovely meals and cakes coming from the girls and we hope

you are enjoying them,

We have been busy updating and changing a few things,

adding more staff and improvements to the pureed meals.

We have had many compliments re meals and we

appreciate that.

Last communication with those who are delivering the

Bain-Marie's is that they have arrived on Australian Soil

and they are having the motors installed I will keep you

updated as we know more.

Laundry have been working hard to keep you clothed over

the holidays , please remember that they do not work on

public holidays so please make sure your family has

supplied enough underwear for those times.

The cleaners have been busy keeping up with cleaning and

keeping the home fresh and presentable.

We have received feedback and we are currently looking at

those suggestions and will get back to you at your next

meeting with the answers and or changes.

Marra xxxx

Hospitality News Around the Home!

The catering girls have been bringing out their creative side in the kitchen!

Lemon Cream Cup Cakes

Cold Serve Lasagne (Soft Diet)

Roast Pork with Crackling

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Lifestyle

Hi

We hope you are keeping cool in this hot weather.

Please remember our hot weather policy , we don’t like

to take anyone out over 35 degrees, If you are in need of

something urgently please let Lifestyle know and we

will get it for you.

Well I have a great couple of weeks off over Christmas

relaxing , fishing and catching up on “call the midwife”

weather was beautiful and the fishing was ok, although

my rock fishing days are coming to an end my feet aren't

as stable as they were, had a nice fall landing on my

poor knees…… but I did not spill the coffee I was

holding. I thank you lifestyle staff and Volunteers for

holding the forte you did an excellent job.

Anyway we are back in the swing of it with January

being busy with all our usual entertainers and we also

welcome Les Rich and thank him for his time.

Our Volunteers are back and we wish to thank each of

them , they are very precious to us.

Chair exercises are a hit and will do them as much as we

can for you.

Thank you to those residents who joined us for picnic in

the park for

Australia Day, it was enjoyable.

Bingo app is giving us a few problems so we will go

back to the old way while we sort the problem out.

Don’t forget its your lifestyle program not mine so if

there is anything you want changed, taken out or added

don’t hesitate to see Marra and we will see what we can

do.

We are very excited about the new web site and when

we can we will hook the laptop up to the big TV and

give you a sneak peek……….

Much Love

Lifestyle and Volunteers xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Joke Corner 6 7

"Hospital Regulations"

Hospital rules state that patients checking out must have a wheelchair.

One day a newly graduated nurse assistant came into the room to find an man fully dressed. He was sitting on the bedside chair, with a piece of

packed luggage at his side, all ready to go.

When he was shown the wheelchair, he was adamant that he was fully capable of walking himself to the parking lot.

But the assistant told him rules were rules, so he relented and let her wheel

him out. In the elevator, the assistant asked the man if his wife was coming to meet

him.

“I don’t think so,” he replied. “It takes her awhile to change her clothes, so she’s probably still upstairs in the bathroom taking off of her hospital gown

and getting dressed.”

“You Need a Shorter Password””

While he was visiting, my father asked for the password to our Wi-Fi.

“It’s taped under the modem,” I told him.

After three failed attempts to log on, he asked, “Am I spelling this right? T-A-P-E-D-U-N-D-E-R-T-H-E-M-O-D-E-M?”

Listen To Your Doctor Morris, an 82 year-old man, went to the doctor to get a physical. A few days later the doctor

saw Morris walking down the street with a gorgeous young woman on his arm. A couple of days later the doctor spoke to Morris and said, "You're really doing great, aren't

you?" Morris replied, "Just doing what you said, Doc: 'Get a hot mamma and be cheerful.'"

The doctor said, "I didn't say that. I said, 'You've got a heart murmur. Be careful.'"..ooh!