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Community Nurse & Hospice Care’s photo took top honors as the People’s Choice in the UMASS Dartmouth South Coast Urban Indicators Project photo competition which was held during the May AHA! Night in downtown New Bedford. The winning photo was snapped by Community Nurse & Hospice Care’s very own telemedicine nurse Lisa Russell RN and portrayed Community Wellness in action. The winning photo was taken of Mr. John Thayer, Patrick McLaughlin RN and Community Wellness Center Nurse Pat Midurski at Community Nurse & Hospice Care Wellness Center at Taber Mills Elderly Apartments and featured Mr. Thayer Patrick and Pat lifting free weights at the Taber Mills gym. The photo was voted people’s choice by a large number of attendees at the Celtic Coffee House during AHA! Night and was amongst a diverse field of great local photography.
The South Coast Urban Indicators Project is a website recently launched by the UMass Dartmouth Urban Initiative to gather and analyze data related to quality of life issues in New Bedford and Fall River in order to promote informed conversation and decision making.
In 2011, Taber Mills Elderly Apartments finished a multi-million dollar renovation and partnered with Community Nurse & Hospice Care to provide community wellness services to its residents. The renovations included the addition of a beautiful community wellness center, an exercise gym, a general store and many upgrades to the apartments and facilities. The Community Nurse & Hospice Care Wellness Center provides nursing services to residents five days a week, with an emphasis on community wellness and aging in place. Community Nurse & Hospice Care provides residents with vital sign monitoring, health counseling, health care advocacy, as well as ongoing exercise education. Community Nurse & Hospice Care is a not-for-profit visiting nurse association with ties to our community since 1916. Our mission is to empower and educate our community about their health and to help our community members achieve their optimal level of health regardless of age.
About Community Nurse & Hospice Care
Community Nurse & Hospice Care (CNHC) is a not-for-profit, independent home care agency caring for Southeastern Massachusetts since 1916. CNHC provides the highest quality care through a range of comprehensive health care and social services to meet patients’ specific needs through personalized care, all within the privacy and comfort of home. CNHC is committed to patients’ health and quality of life, whether they are recovering from surgery or a family member is caring for a terminally-ill loved one. CNHC has two offices, one in Dartmouth with the main office located in Fairhaven. For more information, please visit www.communitynurse.com or call (508) 992-6278.
About Taber Mills
The original Taber Textile mill site was built in the early 20th century and included the current Taber Mills apartment building and abutting structures. The adaptive reuse of this mill site began in 1981 with the opening of Taber Mills Elderly Housing to meet the growing need for affordable elderly housing in New Bedford. The abutting structures were abandoned in 1991 and were the site of a devastating fire in 1995.These abutting lands became a Brownfield success story, with grant monies and EPA funding the land was cleaned up and redeveloped for different local businesses.
