The Bethlen Home Messenger, 1991-1992 (1-4. szám)
1992-09-01 / 4. szám
Bill Cislo - Staff Member Bill also recently joined our staff as a Registered Nursing Assistant. He is a 1965 graduate of Johnstown Sr. High School and served in the United States Army for three years. He received his certification from Hiram G. Andrews Center in Nursing in 1992. He lives in Johnstown and also worked in the steel mill for 12 years. He will also begetting married soon, and his fiance is also studying to be a nurse. Some of Bill’s favorite hobbies are lifting weights, jogging, camping and reading. He also tells us he’san avid bird watcher and enjoys trying ethnic foods. Welcome to Bethlen Home! We hope you will enjoy working here. ^rom ttje ï&e&k of JBiettctan by Edith Kovács Housekeeping or Cleaning Department? Which name fits better to what we are doing here in the Bethlen Home? Can a house be kept without cleaning it or can a house be cleaned without organizing it? Our cleaning ladies are trained three days at the job. Additional training of reading materials and films are used to explain the reason behind the procedures. Our employees are constantly striving to do better, and we are very proud of their jobs. Each time we have inspectors in our nursing home, they praise the cleanliness of our building, the shiny floors and the beautiful flowers everywhere. The work of cleaning the patients’ rooms is almost a wizzard when the rooms are overcrowded, disorganized and shifted everywhere. Families are often requested to help in getting rid of some of the excess of their belongings. Our residents’ families can be an immense help in keeping the rooms tidy, and to simplify the work of our housekeepers. According to the newest regulations, we satisfy all requirements in sanitizing and disinfecting every surface around us. With the returning trend of tuberculosis and hepatitis, and the greatly increasing numbers of human immuniodeficiency virus positive (HIV), acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) patients in the world, we take serious measurements to protect our residents and employees. An important role of all these rests on the cleaning department. We keep a “sewing room” where we stock not only good, used clothing, but doilies and curtains are often moving from there also. (We dress those patients who have nobody or have not enough financial means to spend on clothing.) The Housekeeping Department provides valuable help in this aspect and of beautifying our nursing home. Our patio furniture with the umbrellas not only make our yards pleasant looking, but offers lovely, colorful shades where our residents enjoy the outdoors. Our cleaning ladies care for those areas, keep the pillows arranged and service them whenever bad weather is coming. Our housekeepers’ busy hands show in everything, and we love them for this. One nice day, swarming honey bees covered two branches in the yard of the Bethlen Home. The girls working that day were in a panic seeing the millions of bees. Our brave maintenance men gathered them into hives. Leslie Kastal demonstrated his daring spirit when he cleaned the branches of the honey bees. He did not even get stung very much. The two big boxes of bees are housing two queens and just a million of busy workers. He promised he would bring pieces of honeycomb with honey, which is a favorite of some residents. The rest of the honey is his private bee farm and will be sold to friends, visitors and the workers of the Bethlen Home. At least some reward for his bravery. The beehives are kept far away from our nursing home, but we hope that these bees would still help in pollinating our trees. We have sad hearts in reporting to you the dying of many of our huge pine trees, especially on the hillside of the road leading to the Bethlen Home. According to Rev. J. Kecskemethy, who was director of the Bethlen Home in the forties, those pine trees were planted long before him, during the administration of Rev. Nanassy, about 60-65 years ago, between ’25 and '31. We always blessed the planting hands! We called arborators to examine the sickly trees. Their advice was to replace each second tree with young ones, then the next year the rest of them. We have to dig out the roots, treat the ground with insect killer, then plant the trees in fresh ground. The arborators do not believe that we would have any problems with the newly planted ones. As they explained to me, it made sense: trees are like people. With old age their resistance is less against parasites and sickness. These trees are more than 65 years old, thus no wonder we are losing them slowly. I am debating what kind of pine to use for replacing them. Anybody have any ideas?
