The Bethlen Home Messenger, 1993-1994 (1-3. szám)
1994-03-01 / 2. szám
Nowadays people are exposed to much wider variety of cooking styles, condiments, spices, herbs, vegetables, meats and seafoods than ever before. Many of our residents would be utterly surprised to see a modern vegetable stand in a supermarket and would be puzzled to name most of them. Garlic is on the stand in fresh dents or heads, minced in oil, pureed with salt, etc., etc. Why use medicines when God gave us a garden to embetter our health?! MARCH is advertised to be the Frozen Food Month. Maybe less fresh vegetables are on the market than in the summer, but still enough are available to feed our residents with mostly fresh produce. We rather look to March as National Nutrition Month, when attention is drawn to feed optimum nutrients to those who are unable to care for themself. This is our duty to which we dedicate our time, efforts and love. RECIPES FOR ZUCCHINI For side dish Requested! Our residents are tired of buttered, steamed zucchini herbed, or of Hungarian Zucchini Sauce (=Tokfozelek.) Mrs. Millie Brallier shared with us her recipe prepared with sauteed onion and sprinkled with Parmesan cheese. Her friend, Terry Willaman, advised us to stuff half zucchinis. We will prepare both recipes and hopefully hear some good reports by the next Resident Council meeting. If you may have more ways (but not fried or with tomatoes!) of preparing zucchinis, please share your knowledge with us, we will appreciate it. NEW MENUS New Menus are to be prepared in the near future. We are open for suggestions of what you would like more often on the menu and what you do not like at all. Please prepare suggestions for the Resident Council Meetings. We would love to see families there too! We appreciate your cooperation. BELIEVE IT OR NOT:even inthecoldest weatherwe had ant problems. These tiny, busy bugs come from no where. We always request new residents to keep cookies and candies in a tin box. Our employees know that the smallest cookie or food particle is a clear invitation to a horde of these tiny ants. Let us all watch and lift all fallen food particles at once to prevent ant invasion. LAUNDRY, CLEANING AND CLOTHING NEWS: We are establishing a “Lost and Found” box. Families and residents who are looking for “lost” garments, please come to Esther Berkey or myself to check in the box. We will keep found articles only for a month! When new garments are presented to loved ones, after showing them to the resident, please bring them to our office for labeling, before being used. If you want to label the garments, slip a note to us stating that the labels were taken home. Keeping this note in file will save us lots of headaches of where to find the labels. THE NEW MONSTERS are in use finally. Since long time we call the Laundry Personal Garments Delivery Carts the Monsters, because they are big. They have to house 48 and 55 residents’ belongings for the first and second floors. They have to be handled by two persons to save them of the corners. The old ones were custom made of wood. Their original plan came of a bright nurse’s aide. We used them for 15 years with much success. Lately they were old and beyond repair. The new two carts are from stainless steel. The system is basically the same. They still would have to be handled by two persons. They are especially vulnerable by the corner and handrails of the hallways! If we want to enjoy them long they need protective care. The clear name holders should help the aides and laundry people to avoid mistakes of delivery to the wrong person. PAMPER OUR RESIDENTS I am opening my heart to the families of our residents and to the friends of our Bethlen Home. I still have a dream about blanket heating equipment for the first and for the second floor. (Each would cost about $20,000.) The purpose of them is to preheat the flannel sheets which are used after bathing the residents. Per State regulations we are permitted to use 110° F only for bathing our residents. For some of them this is “cold”. How wonderful would it feel - a prewarmed blanket! What a relaxation and pampered feeling! In old age we can’t rub our residents’ skin vigorously to trigger good blood circulation, because their skin isfrail. Prewarmed blankets would substitute this and would do the service instead. Would you not love to see your mother, wife, father or husband to be pampered in such a way? Please step into my office and share your thoughts with me about these plans. Thank you! Edith Kovács, RD
