When I was growing up, every Valentine’s Day, my father would buy me a teddy bear. I had quite the collection by the time I was 11 or 12 years old. Each bear had a message such as “I love you” or “daddy’s little girl.” But, my favorite was a pair of bears that were…
When I first heard about Legacy Healthcare Services, I remember something about the name of the company that struck me. Legacy. The word has power behind it. It has hope, positivity, and purpose and I was drawn to it. When deciding to write a blog for the company, I thought long and hard about what it should be…
Join us in the Lounge as our host, Katie Holterman (Senior Director of Clinical Programming and Development) sits down with Kelsey Tourigny (Rehab Director, DPT, CPL PEPP) and Kathryn Fleihan (OT) to discuss our SMILE Program. At Legacy, we work together with residents of communities whom we partner with to offer a way to ensure they…
I met Joanne on the very first day of college. We were moving in at the same time and were both apprehensive, excited, overwhelmed, and tired. Her mother—outgoing and protective—marched into my dorm room and said to me, “Please be my daughter’s friend because I’m not leaving here until I know she is okay and has found…
When I was a little girl, my father’s friend Koyama-San visited us from Japan. He brought us a Japanese coin and a karaoke machine, the latter of which was pretty amazing to me as a 7-year-old. Karaoke was not yet popular in the United States at that time, but Koyama-San said it was “the future.”…
