WHAT’S ON OUR MIND

What started as a simple photo-sharing idea from Courtney Bruns has blossomed into a beautiful slideshow with music.

The coronavirus pandemic might have given the world a bushel of lemons, but the staff and residents at Aberdeen Heights have used their community’s resources to make enough lemonade to share. Blessed with several talented musicians among our community’s staff and residents, an idea began to grow of how to leverage those skills into something fun and exciting for everyone. “I saw it on the local news channel a few months ago, when COVID started,” said Susan Press, Independent...

We recently created sixty greeting cards in two workshops at Aberdeen Heights. The cards will be sent to a nonprofit organization, Cards For Soldiers, to be distributed to deployed soldiers. Each soldier will receive a package with one “Thank You” card for them plus four decorated, but blank, cards that they may send to family or friends in the USA.The workshops provided a service opportunity for our residents to use their time, talents, creativity, and resources for others.

The Glen at Aberdeen Heights earned a zero-deficiency survey for a focused infection control survey conducted on behalf of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in June. Aberdeen Heights is a PMMA (Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America) senior living community.Senior living communities are surveyed annually by their licensing agency for compliance of regulations established by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services and CMS. These regulations are designed to ensure a st...

Aberdeen Heights received good news as the community continues to work tirelessly to keep COVID-19 at a minimum on its campus. In a third round of campus-wide testing conducted June 29 for residents of The Glen at Aberdeen Heights and all Aberdeen Heights employees, all tests were negative for COVID-19.The first positive case at the community was identified May 29 when a health care resident tested positive for the virus. Since then, a second health care resident, an agency essential direct-care...