Featured Archives - Roland Park Place

Flower Market 2021

May 6, 2021/in Featured, RPP Stories /by Becki Bees

Roland Park Place was blessed with a beautiful day to hold our Flower Market. Residents chose from a wide array of flowers to be potted in flower boxes and hanging pots. Volunteers assisted in potting the plants and delivering the flowers to the residents’ homes. Everyone enjoyed a day of flowers, friends, and sunny skies.

Interior of Bus with Driver Waving Hello

Wave “Hello” to More Trips and Outings

April 28, 2021/in Featured, RPP Stories, Uncategorized /by Becki Bees

With 100% of Residents vaccinated, trips and outings are starting to increase. Today, we continued our weekly trip to Giant so Residents could stock up on food and home goods. Flowers were a popular buy this trip. Our other favorite grocery stores in the area are Trader Joe’s and Eddies. This May is full of cultural outings. The warm weather means day trips to Hillwood and Winterthur to view their lush gardens. For those who wish to enjoy history and the outdoors, there is a trip to Historic St. Mary’s City that features a tour. Our artistic community is excited to visit the Philadelphia Museum of Art to view works by artists such as Mary Cassatt and Andy Warhol. Our 2021 summer will be full of fun exploration.

What to do with that car

March 22, 2021/in Featured, RPP Stories /by Becki Bees

At Roland Park Place many residents find that with all of the transportation available including medical appointments and scheduled trips, there just isn’t a good reason to keep up the expenses associated with maintaining and insuring a vehicle. If and when that decision is made, it’s a great way to turn your vehicle into a tax deductible donation to Roland Park Place. We’ll take care of everything!

Vaccines for Residents

February 2, 2021/in Featured, Lifestyle, RPP Stories /by Becki Bees

The remaining residents have now received their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine. This means all of the residents have had at least one dose and some have had both doses. About 75% of the employees have had at lease one dose. Everyone at Roland Park Place is hopeful for the future and residents couldn’t be happier! Resident, Dr. Jack Zimmerman says it best: “We are SO FORTUNATE to be living here at RPP. Sam and Jen pulled a rabbit out of the hat to get us vaccinated on premises today. Equally amazing was the marvelous logistics involved in making it go so smoothly. Getting all those moving parts to work together has to have been almost as complicated as putting a man in space. The RPP staff was FANTASTIC in making us comfortable and safe. Thanks to all involved Jack” J. M. Zimmerman, MD, FACS

Inoculation Elation!

January 13, 2021/in Featured, RPP Stories /by Becki Bees

We’re so thrilled to have received our first round of inoculations on January 12th! Walgreens was able to provide the initial round of protection to our employees and residents of the health care center. We are anxiously awaiting our date to inoculate the remaining residents.

A Message From a Grateful Resident

December 3, 2020/in Featured, RPP Stories, Uncategorized /by Becki Bees

Below is a lovely message of thanks from a current resident to our Director of Rehab: Dear Lindsay: Thank you so much for your wonderful care of me during speech therapy. It was especially nice to find that you understood my needs so well. I appreciate your effectiveness in delving into my particular needs. Without your encouragement and questioning skills, I would not have been able to express my needs. Below is some of what I learned:

I improved in my ability to find the words I desire to use.
You taught me to be less embarrassed when I couldn’t find the word I wanted.
I was having a problem remembering all my appointments and obligations each day. You devised an easy to use system within my appointment book that solved my problem.
I learned to complete each task before I started the next task, therefore not forgetting what I had first started to do..
You encouraged me to slow down in all thinking aspects, allowing for less mistakes.
You helped me understand how to verbally deal with each resident, from the very competent to those who are quite verbally impaired.
I learned to let other speakers complete their thoughts before I spoke.
I now try to eliminate tangential comments.

AWARENESS IS KEY! Thanks for your help! Elaine R.

The Precious Pets of RPP are all Winners!

December 1, 2020/in Featured, RPP Stories /by Becki Bees

The pets of Roland Park Place competed in a “Precious Paws” contest. Their humans were asked to submit a photo of them with their name, age and favorite treat or toy. The rest of the community was then asked to vote on the very best. A big congratulations to Oliver, Khloe and Daisy! They are all winners to us.

Residents Offer Encouraging Notes to Meal Donations

November 6, 2020/in Featured, RPP Stories /by Becki Bees

While elections and pandemics and all kinds of drama swirl around, some residents of Roland Park Place have taken the time to write notes for kids who receive breakfast and lunch bags from The Hunger Project.

The origin of the idea:

“A while ago, I saw on Facebook that a friend had asked her friends to write notes to the kids who lined up for the free breakfast and lunch bags given out by the Hunger project. She said it meant so much more to these children who used to get a free lunch and a free breakfast at school. I thought we could supply some of those messages, and even if it were only a drop in the bucket (they hand out 2300 a week!) a few children could have a little fun.

So I got some card stock and some colored pens, and asked a few people to make some cards, with an encouraging message. Barbara Bonnell, Elaine Schott, Elaine Logan, Anita Carrico, Lillian Burgunder and her nurse Catherine, Frannie Rubenstein, Caroline Williams and I started doing little pictures and writing a message . I don’t have a car, but my friend Kingsley picked up our collective effort.

Last week, of all things, I saw a message from another friend with a photo of s smiling little child holding up a transparent bag of goodies with Barbara Bonnell’s card shining through! Thrilling!”

Kittie

It’s Still Summer! Friday barbecues at RPP

August 28, 2020/in Dining, Featured, RPP Stories /by Becki Bees

Residents are enjoying great food, stimulating conversations and mostly nice weather this summer. Between Friday barbecues, Wednesday ice cream socials, Monday-Wednesday-Friday roving happy hours, pop-up events featuring smoothies and lemonade spritzers, high tea and lots of other food and drink events, residents of Roland Park Place have so many opportunities to get together, try new things and have a marvelous time. Covid Schmovid.

ART Committee oversees the installation of original artwork

August 14, 2020/in Featured, RPP Stories, Uncategorized /by Becki Bees

The Roland Park Place ART Committee is comprised of retired professionals from various art backgrounds including artists, curators, art historians and interior designers. Roland Park Place is fortunate to have the guidance of the committee who, with the approval of the Resident Council, recommends the acquisition and placement of original art throughout the Roland Park Place community. The committee reviews offers of art donations for artistic merit, appropriateness for available space and a number of other relevant factors before accepting new pieces. Roland Park Place is also fortunate to be home to several talented artists who will undoubtedly find new inspiration in the upcoming expansive art studio that will be part of the building extension scheduled to open in the summer of 2021.