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Senior Times - March 2023 Health Care Workers
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   Need Love Too
Author Unknown
This piece was written by a health care worker. While I don’t know who, the sentiment presented is echoed by other health care workers across our community. Be sure to thank those that help provide care for your loved ones, they need that sometimes too.
 From A Health Care Worker...
I suspect it’s hard to love anyone in the health care field. We get up early and don't have time to drink coffee over the newspaper.
• We come home late and are too
down, or worse. Our patients are our families, too.
tired to cook.
• We work extra hours because we
We don't tell you how some of our patients are dying and this makes us cry on the way to work; to do a job we love, but how we’re terrified too because it is breaking us down while putting the most vulnerable at risk.
know there are sick people who need us and we are all that they have.
• We miss events, holidays, birthdays, and our children's school sports games.
We don't share with you how our hearts melt when our patients give us that loving smile that makes our day.
• We don't get too excited over your minor "boo-boo.” We’ve seen far worse.
I suspect it is hard to love a health care worker, but know this: your health care worker needs your love, your understanding, and to know that you "get it.” We need to be the one taken care of every once in a while. We need someone else to take charge of the details because doing it our- selves constantly is exhausting. We need a shoulder to cry on when we can't even tell you why we’re griev- ing. We need you to do the hardest work you may ever do, which is to love a health care worker. This is our calling, to help our patients, our pas- sion and our reason for living.
SENIOR DINING CENTERS
• We think about our patients even when we leave the building, won- dering did we help them in any spe- cial way because they depend solely on us for all their needs.
• We don't want to talk when we come home. We’ve talked all day.
• We don't want to move when we come home. We’ve moved all day.
It may seem that we have left all our caring, our heart, and our love at work, and then have come home to you empty. We probably have. But we don't tell you that many times at work we’re mired by anxiety and we’re scared; scared we’re missing some- thing. Scared we will let our patient
I would like to thank those of you out there who love us and let us do this work, pursue this calling, and living this life.
    CITY
Hastings Woodland
Battle Creek Battle Creek Battle Creek Marshall Tekonsha
Jackson Jackson Napoleon Spring Arbor
LOCATION
COA Building Eagles Club
FACILITATOR
Theresa Lancaster Leona Rairigh
PHONE DAYS
(269) 948-4856 M-F
(269) 367-4041 M,W,F
TIME *Not All Sites Open - Call First 10am-2pm
 BARRY COUNTY*
      Delton
Faith United Methodist
Angela Soya
(269) 579-3918
M,W,T
11am-1pm
  Nashville
Main St. Banqets
Jenny Burlison
(517) 213-9212
M-F
10:30am-1pm
10:30am-1pm
 Meals provided by Barry County Commission on Aging. A program sponsored by Barry County United Way.
 BRANCH COUNTY*
       Coldwater
 Coldwater Church of Christ
 Alisha Carr
 (517) 279-8249
 M,T,Th,F
 9am-1pm
 Lunch Served at 12pm
 Meals provided by Community Action Food and Nutritional Services. Funding sources AAA 3C, Branch County United Way, USDA, and private donations.
 CALHOUN COUNTY*
       Albion
Clarence Township Dining Center
Mark Rice
(866) 200-8877
M,T,W
11am-12pm
Lunch served at 11am
 Bedford Manor Dining Center Lakeview 900 Territorial Dining Center Westbrook Place Dining Center Heritage Commons Senior Center
Tekonsha Fire Station
Billy Castle Karl Hoard Michelle Dove Jen Rice
Senior Health Partners
(866) 200-8877 (866) 200-8877 (866) 200-8877 (269) 558-6150
(269) 441-0948
M,T,W,Th,F M,W,F M,T,W,Th,F M,T, Th
T
10:30am-12:30pm 10:30am-12:30pm 10:30am-1pm 12-1pm
10am
Lunch served at 11:30am Lunch served at 11:30am Lunch served at 11:30am Lunch served at 12pm
Senior Fit & Fun, Lunch after
Battle Creek
Cherryhill Manor Senior Center
Constance Siegel
(866) 200-8877
M,T,W,Th,F
10:30am-1pm
Lunch served at 11:30am
Battle Creek
Springview Towers Dining Center
Eileen Worthington
(866) 200-8877
M,T,W,Th,F
10:30am-12:30pm
Lunch served at 11:30am
Homer
Homer Presbyterian Church
Senior Health Partners
(269) 441-0948
T
10:30am
Senior Fit & Fun, Lunch after
Marshall
Marshall House Dining Center
Deb Trescott
(866) 200-8877
M,W,F
10:30am-12:30pm
Lunch served at 12pm
 All sites have hot and cold meals. Meals provided by Senior Services SW MI. Funding by Calhoun County Senior Services, CareWell Services - AAA 3B, USDA, and private donations.
 JACKSON COUNTY*
 Grass Lake
 Grass Lake Food With Friends
 Annie Lavergne
 (517) 788-4364
 T, Th
 10am-3:30pm
 Lunch served at 12pm
 Crouch Senior Center
King Rec Center, Food with Friends Napoleon Township Hall
Spring Arbor Senior Center
Laurie Mead Laurie Mead Laurie Mead
Laurie Mead
(517) 788-4364 (517) 788-4364 (517) 788-4364
(517) 788-4364
M,T,W,Th,F M,T,W,Th,F T, Th M,T,W,Th,F
8am-4pm 10:30am-1:30pm 10:30am-1:30pm
9:45am-1:45pm
Lunch served at 12pm Lunch served at 12pm Lunch served at 12pm
Lunch served at 12pm
Jackson
Park Forest
Laurie Mead
(517) 788-4364
M,T,W,Th,F
10:30am-1:30pm
Lunch served at 12pm
Michigan Center
St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church
Laurie Mead
(517) 788-4364
M,W,F
10am-2pm
Lunch served at 12pm
Norvell
300 Mill Street
Laurie Mead
(517) 788-4364
M,W,F
10:30am-1:30pm
Lunch served at 12pm
 To have your senior dining center added or changes to your listing, Call Sherii at (269) 979-1479 ext. 2 or Email: ssherban@scenepub.com.
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