WHAT’S ON OUR MIND

Fort Scott Presbyterian Village earned a zero-deficiency survey for a focused infection control survey conducted by the Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services (KDADS) in June.

Evan Winder’s work as a certified medication aide at Fort Scott Presbyterian Manor has been more stressful lately due to additional safety measures put in place to protect against the spread of COVID-19. When it’s time to unwind from a long, stressful week at work, Winder knows exactly what she needs to do: Go fish.

Life might look a little different right now inside Fort Scott Presbyterian Village — but people working every day to make life a little brighter isn’t anything new.Life Enrichment Director Judy Davis has been busy crafting up various hallway decorations for our community. Some hallways featured spring bonnets, while other hallways were decorated with springtime decorations to hang on residents’ doors. Yet another area featured a spring-themed stand constructed by Clarice Russe...

We’d like to give a big thank you to David Elliott from local home improvement company Peerless Products, Inc., for the generous donation of masks for the staff of Fort Scott Presbyterian Village.The masks will help our residents and staff stay safe and remind us of the generosity and kindness of so many people in our community.Peerless Products designs and manufactures windows, doors and other home accessories. The company was founded in 1958 and employs 350 people.While delivering the ma...

Some residents of Fort Scott Presbyterian Village have been very busy during the recent stay-at-home order.Resident Janice Ramsey has not let social distancing leave her with idle hands. Instead, she’s been busy designing and sewing a batch of aprons for Easter and Mother’s Day. By the middle of April, she had sewn 16 aprons and planned to make even more.Janice said the project is a good way for her to keep her mind off the news during the COVID-19 pandemic.