Category: Heritage Updates
COVID-19 Vaccine Updates
Vaccines All Around At this time (January 26, 2021), all 14 of our communities have completed their first vaccination clinics, with several locations already having completed their second clinics and beginning to prepare for third rounds. We know this step has been eagerly awaited by residents, families and our team members, and we could not...
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Jennifer Hellbusch Joins Heritage Communities as Director of Heritage Healthcare
Heritage Communities is excited to announce the addition of Jennifer Hellbusch to the home office team. Jennifer will serve as the Director of Heritage Healthcare, overseeing company-wide care initiatives, guiding clinical practices and protocols, and responsible for overarching directives related to health and safety of our residents. Jennifer started her career in healthcare over 20...
Read ArticleCOVID-19 Vaccine Update
With the recent approval of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, and Moderna nearing emergency approval by the FDA, Heritage Communities is mobilized and prepared for a vaccine rollout at all of our communities. While individual states are working on specific rollout timelines, we realize many questions are starting to circulate around the vaccine, as it relates to...
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Welcome to Heritage Communities, Lori Higuera!
Heritage Communities has appointed Lori Higuera as Executive Director of Orchard Pointe at Arrowhead. With 100 apartments, the premier Glendale, Arizona senior living community offers both assisted living and memory care services. As Executive Director, Higuera will be responsible for all operational facets within the community, including resident experience, quality of care, programming directives and...
Read ArticleCOVID-19 Protocols
Infection control and prevention has always been an essential function of senior living communities. With the onset of COVID-19, our approach to these measures has never been more critical. Heritage Communities is committed to our top priorities of resident and associate safety during COVID-19. Through regular interaction and closely following recommendations from the Nebraska Infection...
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What Heritage United Means to Me – From an Associate
Blog post written by Heritage Communities associate, Randi Pennell They were isolated. No contact. Our memory care staff and residents were quarantined with cases of Covid in late March. Those of us working in assisted living had heavy hearts as we missed our friends, co-workers, and residents. We thought about how they were putting their...
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What Heritage United Means to Me – From a Daughter
We are Heritage United and this is my story: I live in Arizona, and my mom lives at The Heritage at College View in Hastings. My mom is a social person and loves to visit with her friends and bring smiles to people’s faces. She can’t pass someone without saying hello. Moving into Heritage in...
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Heritage United Update
It has been said that parenthood can be summarized into the phrase: the days are long, but the years are short. If you have children, no matter how old they are today, you may remember some days feeling as though they were never going to end, yet once you paused, it surprised you how the years seemed to...
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Welcome to Heritage Communities, Lisa Colbert
Heritage Communities is thrilled to announce that Lisa Colbert will be joining our team as Regional Director of Operations for our Omaha metro and Iowa communities. Lisa will transition to the organization in late September, and begin working closely with the communities in her region starting in October. Born and raised in South-Central Nebraska, Lisa attended...
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Standing Together, We are Heritage United
While COVID-19 was still new and relatively unknown in February of this year, the one thing we did know, was that dealing with this virus would take the combined efforts of our residents, family members and associates in order to keep those most vulnerable safe. The phrase “Heritage United” was born out of the mission...
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