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For Immediate Release:
3/8/2004
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Helene King
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Levindale is Nominee for Health Care Heroes Award
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Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital is one of four LifeBridge Health nominees for this year's Health Care Heroes awards sponsored by the Daily Record. Levindale was selected in the category of Advancements in Health Care for the implementation of the Eden Alternative philosophy.
Fortunately with new medicines and treatments, individuals are living longer than ever before so the challenge becomes making sure the elderly have the highest quality of life possible. That's where the Eden Alternative becomes a necessity. This philosophy recognizes the three plagues of the elderly as loneliness, helplessness and boredom and fights them with companionship, empowerment and spontaneity. The battle is fought by infusing life into Levindale in many different ways; including having residents tend gardens, help take care of animals and share frequent visits with children.
The Eden concept can only be carried out with the support of the entire staff under the leadership of a creative thinker like Levindale's President and COO Ronald Rothstein. He is helping to turn 100 years of nurse home culture upside down, changing the way caregivers and residents think and interact.
Levindale became the first-registered Eden Alternative facility in Maryland in 1999, and today is one of only three. It is part of LifeBridge Health, one of the largest and most comprehensive providers of health services in the northwest Baltimore region. Additional LifeBridge Health nominees are the Park Heights Community Health Alliance in the Community Outreach category, Jane Theodore, a volunteer in Sinai Hospital's ER-7, in the Volunteer category and John Herzenberg, MD, in the Physician Hero category.
The winners of the Health Care Heroes will be announced on Wednesday, March 24, 2004.
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