Monticello Chatterbox: April Newsletter 2020

Celebrating April Poetry Month Occupational Therapy Month Passover Begins April 8 Easter April 12 Gardening Day April 14 Volunteer Week & Laundry & Linen Week April 19 – 25 Earth Day April 22 Arbor Day April 24 Hairstylist Appreciation Day April 25 International Dance Day April 29

Happy Spring everyone! What a month March was, so many changes and new ‘normal’ for all of us! I would like to take this opportunity to go over the precautions we are taking as a facility to help protect our residents and staff from illness. Protecting our residents’ health and...

Happy April. Thankfully the weather is getting warmer and we can begin to look forward to Spring and good things to come! Due to Covid 19 and restricted visitation, we have been doing a lot of FaceTime, Skype, phone calls, letters and cards to keep families connected. If you are...

Welcome April from Activities! It is not the April any of us want, but we will get through this together! Positive thoughts!! Last month, residents made wonderful cards that were sent to cancer patients at The University of Iowa. Unfortunately, we cannot gather for group activities, but we are providing...

Staff’s Birthday’s Felicia Jones 04/07 Mary Ryan 04/07 Cassandra Wood 04/09 Amanda Gomez 04/26 Residents Birthday’s Bun Montgomery 04/08 Marcella Hubbard 04/22 Nadine Hardy 04/28 Phoebe Shepherd 04/30

Alyssa Kracke 04/06/2007 Laurissa Martin 04/06/2009 Sarah Collins 04/26/2018 Heather Gellersen 04/26/2018 Jeanne Recker 04/05/2019

Stephanie Ahrendson- CNA Sophia Alhrichs- CNA Roxanne Behrends- Universal Workers Maisy Cigrand- CNA Leah Denemark- Dietary Aide Laci Van Dorn- RN Samantha Dye- CNA Jordan Lorenzen- CNA Tanya Pulaski- CNA Makilynn Ries- Dietary Cook Callie Sternhagen- RN Tonya Thomas- CNA Stephanie Thumma- Housekeeping

James "Jim" Adams Richard "Dick" Ellison Meta Tobiason