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BARTLESVILLE HEALTH AND REHAB · One on One With a Professional

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  And welcome, Welcome, Welcome. It's time now for one on one with
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  the pro, but it's actually two on one, but it's okay. We're
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  having fun today. Bartlesville Health and Rehab Community is with us today and we
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  have Jesse Cross and Aubrey Myers in with this, and first of all,
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  welcome, thank you. All right, it's good to be indoors today.
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  I mean, I'm just taking a look out there. It's looking kind of
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  ominous, but wow. We have been talking with all sorts of folks from
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  Bartlesville Health and Rehab and every time it comes back to a common denominator.
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  It's kind of like one big family, right, yes, And not only
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  does Alex and his family work there, but you and you and your families
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  work there too. We're going to start out there with with Jesse. You're
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  the dietary manager. You have family that works besides you, right I do.
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  My mother, Marcy Freed, is the business manager, uh huh,
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  and my wife is the administrative assistant. So there you go. And then
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  with Aubrey, you've got like three generations going on there, which got Yes,
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  my mom Kristin Ryan does the social services and then my grandma Irma White
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  does medical records. Wow, so you've been kind of growing up in the
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  building, haven't you. Yes, my mom's been there for I think fourteen
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  or fifteen years. Oh, so I've kind of been around the building since
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  I was about eleven, grew up there, worked in the kitchen in high
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  school. When we moved back here, I started nursing school and went to
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  CNA class. So I've been here for a long time, on and off,
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  but been around a long time now, Jesse. When it comes to
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  the food, everybody says, well, you know, when you cook at
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  a big place, it's not the same as maybe as a restaurant. But
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  I've been told differently. I've been told it tastes everything as good, is
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  as right there at home to maybe someplace you'd order out. Well, I
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  hope that's what you're hearing. It is right. I'm here, and I
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  would be telling fifth put me in jail if I told, well, we've
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  really been trying to get back to the home style cooking, less processed foods.
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  We changed up our specials a lot. We've got daily breakfast specials now
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  and we do a monthly cookout from April to October. Family members are welcome
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  to come out and join join their family that's in the facility, and we
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  have music and beverages and it's just a good time for everybody. Now I
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  understand that patio. It's kind of lit to itself with those cookouts. It
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  has a nice edition. Huh, it's a fabulous edition. Oh wow,
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  how long you been there? I've been there for about two years. I
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  started out as a CNA. I went to maintenance, and then i went
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  to dietary, and so I've worked about every department that's available. My goodness
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  sakes, you got the whole round experience there. Yes, yes, I
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  do. Well, this is great. So nobody's really a stranger there,
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  robbery, No, No, definitely not. I think everybody that comes into
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  somebody that's there, and you know, we're all just work together as one
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  big family and welcome everybody in. So now, how does that help with
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  the care of the people coming in? Do they feel like they've kind of
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  been welcomed in to a family of sorts. Yeah, it's got to be
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  important. Yes, I would say so. A lot of our residents see
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  all of us as their family. I mean, that's their home, so
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  we try to make it as a much of a home atmosphere as we can
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  and treat them as we would treat our family members. Now we've got something
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  here that you mentioned that you wanted to talk about about memory care, and
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  that's something that concerns a lot of people at probably age fifty five and up,
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  because you start realizing that your hard drive is just a little too full.
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  That's what it is. Yeah, you're just so full of information.
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  Sometimes it takes a while to find it. But we also know that memory
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  care is something that advances as aged does. Yeah. Yeah, I'm actually
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  very excited about our memory care unit. It should be we opened it up.
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  I think middle of May is when we actually close through the doors.
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  It's a secure unit, so anybody that just has a diagnosis of dementia or
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  anything like that, Alzheimer's, it's just more of a more of a less
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  stimulating atmosphere. So when you come in our building, you know, all
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  of our other residents have the alexa's going and have music playing, and it
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  can be a little bit on the louder side. So that is just more
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  of a quieter area for those people you distractions. Yes, yes, it's
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  easier for them keep focused on less anxiety inducing so yeah, you know,
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  because if you get too much going on all of a sudden, your mind
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  just says, everything's just got to settle down now. And I understand where
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  that's coming from, and I can only imagine what that would be like if
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  you really needed that kind of care. Yeah, it's a very calmon environment.
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  I've I've seen. I've seen a lot of good things come out of
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  it so far, and it's only been open about a month. So now
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  I understand, getting back to the food aspect here, that sometimes this becomes
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  like a social atmosphere too for the not only the staff, but of course
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  the residents too. Tell us a little bit about what goes on around meals
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  there besides the normal chatter. Well, you know, we have open dining
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  from seven am to seven pm, which is great, so we have in
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  always available menu. Residents don't have to order during what you would consider a
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  traditional meal time the sugar at any time. We do have a lot of
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  residents that join us in the dining room and there's a lot of socializing that
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  that goes on. It gets pretty loud during meal times. But in the
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  memory care unit they also have a dining room, so they still get that
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  social environment during meal times down there, and they get the always available menu
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  or the special they still get to choose down there in the memory care units,
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  just delivered to them. You know something that's something that Alex Doubt told
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  me about that. It's it's we're not going to regiment people to our schedule.
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  We're going to play the years. And that is just right there an
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  example of being very casual about that. Because not everybody wakes up at six
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  o'clock in the morning. Not everybody wants to be bet at seven am.
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  Some people get up that early, some people get up at eight or nine,
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  you know, and it all depends on how your body's working. And
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  he said that he wanted to make sure everything was available for everybody on their
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  own, their own rhythm. Yeah, we really tried to work with whatever
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  schedule they have kept, you know, throughout their all lifehood, and we
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  try to maneuver more towards what they want to do in the day. Like
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  we said, that's their home and we want it to make we want to
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  make it feel like home for them. So you know, if they didn't
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  eat breakfast till ten am and then they didn't need lunch until three and they
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  didn't eat dinner till seven. Well that's we obliged to that. Well that's
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  good because you know, there are folks who probably worked some odd hours during
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  their their life. Maybe is that odd of ours? Is? Maybe you
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  you two have and sometimes let's stick with you and it's like, oh,
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  it's kind of hard to break. I understand that. But getting back to
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  your Bartosvielle Health and Rehab, when people come in, you're a name,
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  you're a person. You're not a number that goes out to New York City
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  or Los Angeles or Chicago or Memphis. It's owned and operated right here with
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  local people, and with local people like yourselves and your families working here side
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  by side with the patients. That's got to give them a level of call.
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  Yeah, I would think so. I mean they come in and we
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  all make it a point to go in and introduce ourselves and let them know
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  kind of what our position is and if they have any concerns, they can
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  ask for us or we'll come down and check on them. I understand you
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  have a couple of pets there. Yes, yes, we have Luna who's
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  a therapy dog, so she stays down in the therapy room and then Alex
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  brings cash. So so everybody, I understand that the pets are very popular
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  with it. Yes, yes, the residents love the pets, but they
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  don't go in the kitchen right now. In the kitchen, no, no,
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  no, no, we do not enter there. But this has got
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  to be kind of fun. I mean, what's it like, though,
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  working with your relatives, because that happens more and more these days. What's
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  it like having family right there with you? For me? I think it
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  makes things easier. That's all the same ways, but it is. It
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  is nice working with family members and other people whose family is there. I
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  think it brings us closer as a team, and it makes it a lot
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  easier to communicate with others because you know, you know them a little bit
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  better. Yeah, same with you. Yeah yeah. Me and my mom
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  actually shared an office for a little while, and we didn't know how that
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  was going to go. But I think it turned out great. But I'm
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  I'm pretty sure it did a little different than the home dynamic when you get
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  into the work, but all the same, it comes out smiles and sparkles.
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  I like that. Now, where can we find you? Where are
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  you located? We are located on thirty four to thirty four Kentucky Place.
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  It is right behind the hospital, so there's the hospital and then there's like
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  the outpatient surgery area, and then right behind there we have like a whole
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  block. Well, you can't miss that. If you miss the hospital,
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  you need you need your eyesight checks, yes, but after that, you
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  know, it's pretty easy to find. And I understand that. You know,
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  we have residents, and we also have our twenty eight day people in
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  there for therapy as well, and the folks who live in the apartment.
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  So that's got to be a pretty good sized complex, right. Oh yeah,
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  so you know, so you got a little bit of everything going on
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  there. You got permanent residents, you got the folks that are you know,
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  kind of aging in place, and then you got the folks who are
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  trying to get repaired to get back home and what have you. I understand
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  that when the folks come in for that twenty eight day period, first of
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  all, they're like, I don't know about it, And about the second
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  week they're going, hey, I kind of like this, and then about
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  day twenty seven and a half, what do you mean it's over? Yeah,
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  So it really is a very friendly very welcoming thing. And I understand
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  that you've got a good Facebook page and that your website's really pretty good too.
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  Yes, we do have a website. I think it's Martos Well healthonrehab
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  dot com. It is, but most of our stuff, I believe,
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  is posted on Facebook. That's where you can see all of our activities and
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  events that we have, So it's a good place to go to post the
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  menu on that. Do you no the only kid? Not yet? We're
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  working. We're working towards getting towards the more towards the media side of getting
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  the menu out and our specials because I know a lot of the folks said
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  there internally are on the Facebookay yes, when nobody is looking, they got
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  the thumbs going there on the phone and everything too. I want to thank
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  you both for being here with us today, alrighty, and tell Alex to
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  send you back one of these days. Alrighty. Folks, you've been listening
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  to our program here and it is one on one with the pros. However
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  today it was two on one and I didn't mind because they're very very nice
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  folks at Bartleswill Health and Recap. Thank you very much. We've got more
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  coming up here in just a moment with Cherokee Chat