Compassion

Several years ago while working at a nursing home as the administrator the director of nursing died. The whole facility was devastated including the residents and staff. The work that we do is hard enough without something as traumatic as this occurring. This occurred on a Friday. On Monday we started having visits from the managers of other local facilities who brought cards and food for the staff. It was obvious that they had coordinated this because there was a different building and treat each day. As the week went by every nursing home in a 30 mile radius brought something to our facility. This goes to show that people who work in long term care regardless of competition for residents are loving caring people. We are all an extension of each other. I can't tell you how much this helped my facility get through this difficult time.