Your Stories: Family Donates to Geriatric Wellness Pavilion
June 7, 2024Categories: Colleague Corner
The Bahl family came to Johnson Memorial Hospital recently to meet with leadership and tour the Geriatric Wellness Pavilion. The family made a gift to the pavilion in celebration of Lorraine Bahl, who was a dedicated Johnson colleague for almost 20 years. She passed away in 2022 and once the Pavilion was open, her husband Earl felt this would be the perfect place to honor his wife. A plaque was placed in the lobby and the family gathered around it to capture the moment.
The Bahl family meets with Johnson staff and leaders while visiting the Geriatric Wellness Pavilion.
Edna N. Rodríguez, LP-PsyD, Director of Behavioral Health, Robert Roose, M.D., MPH, FASAM, President of Johnson Memorial Hospital and Mercy Medical Center, and Nurse Manager, Lauren Muccino, RN, led a tour of the Pavilion with the family and highlighted unique services provided. The family was especially impressed with the unit’s peaceful, accommodating, and beautiful feel. Earl was immediately touched and knew that Lorraine would be pleased with their decision to support this program. We are grateful for their generosity, which will assist this program in meeting the varied acute needs of aging patients and their families.
The Geriatric Wellness Unit is a 15-bed, Medicare-certified service designed to diagnose and treat the complex problems related to individuals 55 years and older. A multidisciplinary team provides individualized treatment plans based on comprehensive diagnostic procedures. Upon diagnosis, the team, closely collaborates with family and loved ones to formulate an action plan that is provided with healing compassion and guided by experts in the field. The goal is to maintain and improve each patient’s self-respect and dignity and strive to return them to their living environments within nine to 12 days. For more information about the Geriatric Wellness Pavilion, please call the hospital at (860) 684-4251.
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Submitted by Whitney Hubbs Dionne, Senior Philanthropy Officer, Trinity Health Of New England.