Welcome to the Ceca Foundation Blog
Our new blog was created to be a place for us to share inspiring and heartwarming stories, photos and videos from award celebrations, examples of successes from our partner healthcare communities, best practices for employee engagement and retention, musings on current events, and more.
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Gratitude: The Key to Improving Patient Experience
Nate's Care Corner Stress occurs in every profession. Deadlines, overwhelming quantities of work, challenging projects, and limited downtime affect all of us in ways that limit our ability to recharge when we’re not on the job. For caregivers, this...
We Get the Job Done
Featuring: Denise Watson, Patient Care Technician, Doctor's Community Medical Center (formerly Doctor's Community Hospital) “Immigrants. We get the job done.” - Miranda This line from the record-breaking musical Hamilton, consistently gets...
From Homeless to Making a Happy Home for Seniors
Featuring: Patricia Murray, Carroll Manor There are many paths people take to become caregivers. Patricia Murray’s path started on the DC streets. How she came to be there is its own story, like those of millions of others who end-up homeless in...
The Time is Now
Nate's Care Corner During the first few months of the pandemic, people around the world saw rising infection totals and people dying. For many, panic was setting in and things looked bad, to say the least. But, eventually, we all came to understand...
Leading in a Year Like No Other
Featuring Margo Buda, Knollwood Life Plan Community For Margo Buda, RN, the year 2020 began like any other year at Knollwood, a life plan community in Washington, D.C. serving military officers and government officials and their families. It...