Meet Our Staff

Carol
Carol has been the Senior Counselor at the Bender Group Home for a little over a year. In that short period of time, she has brought so many positive changes to the Group Home. To begin with, all of the cholesterol levels of everyone in the home has gone down this past year. Carol has started bringing vegetables from her garden and incorporated them into the residents’ meals.

In addition, Carol has started a garden in pots on the back deck of the home. When the garden was first planted she ran a contest for which resident could spot the first bean or tomato. It was a lot of fun and educational for all the residents.

In addition to these healthy eating initiatives, Carol made sure that the residents have new exercise equipment to continue their healthy trends. The Bender Group Home now has two state-of-the-art machines for the residents to use for exercise.

Rosemary
Rosemary, JFGH’s Registered Nurse, joined the JFGH team after working in acute care settings for 14 years, most recently at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, DC. She started part-time as a delegating nurse for four of the group homes and became enamored with the DD population. She was hired as our Nurse Administrator in December 2007. Together with a team of four nurses, she works to ensure the health and stability of our 150 residents. Rosemary makes it a point to always be available to the administration, direct care staff and residents. She often has gone with residents for medical appointments where she feels she could serve as a medical liaison with doctors. Rosemary has said that she chooses to do this as it allows her to spend one on one time with the residents helping to build a trusting relationship with them as they face medical issues. Her dedication to the health of the residents has her assisting two residents from Feldman Group Home in attendance at Weight Watchers and exercising with them weekly.

Rosemary has also been very active in the training and education of our direct care staff. She has brought in specialists on autism and cerebral palsy and plans to offer more training on mental health and oral hygiene in the upcoming year.

Although new to the developmental disability community, Rosemary’s enthusiasm and dedication to providing outstanding nursing care for our residents exemplifies JFGH’s commitment to our residents.

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