A partnership between WesleyLife and Genesis Health System to help older adults in eastern Iowa and western Illinois live healthier, more purposeful lives.
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WellSpire is a partnership between WesleyLife of Johnston, Iowa, and Genesis Health System of Davenport, Iowa, formed to help older adults in the Quad Cities and the surrounding area to live healthier lives of purpose and meaning. The partnership will involve new management of existing senior living communities in DeWitt, Iowa, and Silvis, Illinois, and the construction of new senior living communities in Bettendorf, Iowa, and Moline, Illinois. For information, visit wellspireliving.org.
Operating as usual
Fieldstone of DeWitt, a WellSpire Community, is scheduled to open next year. Take a moment to learn about the campaign to help fund it, as well as the person-centered model of service and care it will bring to Clinton County!
The DeWitt Community Hospital Foundations capital campaign for Fieldstone of DeWitt. I think you will see Fieldstone offers a more homelike and less instit...
Watch us grow! Thanks to the The Observer - DeWitt, Iowa for publishing this update on the progress of Fieldstone of DeWitt, one of our two communities under construction in the Quad Cities. We’re eager to bring our model of person-centered service and care to the residents of Clinton County when we open next year! The link is below.
https://www.dewittobserver.com/news/local/fieldstone-campaign-enters-final-stretch/article_0e9f6030-65a1-11eb-a427-af420830b96e.html
We are proud to announce that WellSpire's communities received ratings of above average or highly above average -- the best possible rating -- today from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The CMS created the highly regarded "star" system to help consumers, their families, and caregivers compare communities more easily. The CMS considers communities with 4- or 5-star designations to be leaders in the care they provide.
Choose WellSpire's communities with confidence, knowing you or your family member will receive the best possible services from an organization that helps to set the industry standard!
To our friends who have been kind enough to boost WellSpire's social media presence by "liking" our page, we have a favor to ask. Each one of our existing communities now has its own page! Please visit and "like" those pages here, and learn more about each of our campuses.
https://www.facebook.com/WestwingPlace
https://www.facebook.com/IRCWellSpire
https://www.facebook.com/CrosstownSquareWellSpire
We appreciate your continued support!
New year, new job! Our campuses are looking for dedicated caregivers who are ready for positions with purpose. Nurses and CNAs -- need flexible scheduling? Visit wesleylife.org/careers today to browse our openings at Westwing Place in DeWitt or Illini Restorative Care in Silvis and apply quickly and easily!
Chelsey Killean, Administrator, Megan Kinney, Director of Health Services, and Midge, a resident of our health center, were proud this morning to be among the first in our community to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine from members of the CVS vaccination team.
Westwing Place is grateful that this mitigation tool has been made available to all team members and residents in the community. Along with continued health and safety protocols, receipt of the vaccine will help bring Westwing another step closer to a full reopening of our campus!
COVID vaccines have arrived at Illini Restorative Care and we are happy to report that we have completed our first doses!
We are thankful and honored to join the American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living and other long term care providers around the country to support the effort to #GetVaccinated for the safety of our residents, team members and communities. Our residents and team members agree: #GetVaccinated and let’s continue the fight together!
A big thank you to Walgreens for providing us with our vaccinations and we look forward to seeing you again in February.
We would also like to wish our friends at Westwing Place good luck with their vaccine clinic tomorrow!
🎶Some day some virus is gonna make you wanna turn around and get a vaccine...🎵
Vaccines are arriving, WellSpire!
Here’s a special message to us from Carnie Wilson of Wilson Phillips:
🎶 Hold on for one more day...🎵
🥂Cheers to a new year!🥂
Westwing Place celebrated the new year with champagne, egg nog, and snacks complete with in-room delivery!
We’re wishing you all a healthy and happy new year and are excited for what lies ahead.
May the "reason for the season" fill you with joy this Christmas Day!
To our residents, clients, participants, and family members: Thank you for allowing WellSpire to be of service to you and your loved ones. Your trust has meant the world to us in this year of unprecedented challenge. To our team members: Your courage and dedication have made it possible for us to continue to fulfill our mission, and we could not be more grateful.
We wish everyone a wonderful, meaningful holiday filled with hope for all good things in the year ahead. Again, thank you, and warm wishes for a blessed Christmas Day.
🎅🏻 “Santa! I know him!” 🎅🏻
Residents at Westwing Place enjoyed the last 12 days with daily surprises in their stockings. Santa surprised the residents yesterday while they opened gifts from their Secret Santas (team members) and enjoyed some Christmas treats.
Today, team members were surprised with a warm, catered, homemade meal from Mamas Parlor, compliments of J&L Lawncare & Landscaping LLC. On behalf of the entire team at Westwing, we THANK YOU!
🎄MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!🎄
🎶 It’s the most wonderful time of the year 🎶
The residents and team members of Illini Restorative Care and Crosstown Square spread a little holiday cheer today by wearing their most festive gear!
Crosstown Square is having fun today with our residents by having an Ugly Sweater Contest! Here are our 1st and 2nd Place team member winners, Patty Knorr and Coni Lane!
Westwing Place desires to maintain the traditional remembrance service of those residents who have passed away in the last year. The pandemic has impacted our normal plans and we’ve had to rethink the best and safest way to honor those who are no longer with us. In previous years, we’ve invited families to join us for a memorial service. However this year, we’re thankful for technology and felt this would be the most forward and practical way to share, given our current situation.
We hope you enjoy this special “2020 Angel Tree Remembrance” ceremony. The team and residents at Westwing Place have your families in our thoughts and prayers during this holiday season. Thank you for sharing with us the life of your loved one.
https://youtu.be/69H3pd2vH_4
***Voting closed! Thank you all!***
Illini Restorative Care and Crosstown Square in Silvis, IL invite you to cast your vote in our 2nd Annual Christmas Tree Contest, decorated by our very own team members!
To vote for your favorite tree, please comment "vote" on the corresponding picture. "Likes" and "loves" are sure appreciated, but will not be counted toward the final tally 😃 (You may only vote once)
The residents of Illini Restorative Care and Crosstown Square will vote tomorrow and enjoy the festive scenery!
Another update on Fieldstone of DeWitt; this week’s weather allowed for great progress on land work!
Took advantage of the warm weather 🌞 this week and got a jumpstart on Fieldstone in DeWitt! 🏡
https://www.dewittobserver.com/news/local/fieldstone-site-work-begins/article_c3d22a36-3997-11eb-9ac1-cb65c46f92fc.html
Dewitt Community Hospital Foundation
The Observer - DeWitt, Iowa
DeWitt Chamber & Development Co.
Site work began this week at the future home of Fieldstone of DeWitt, a senior living community slated to replace Westwing Place, which officials say has become obsolete.
It's a wonderful week for WellSpire, WesleyLife, and residents of Clinton County and surrounding areas. We are honored to be a part of the DeWitt community!
Site work began this week at the future home of Fieldstone of DeWitt, a senior living community slated to replace the existing Westwing Place, also of DeWitt, in positively impacting the quality of life of older adults in Clinton county and surrounding areas.The community -- the second to be built b...
Westwing Place team members would like to thank Rittmer Inc. for lunch today!Subway of DeWitt individually prepared and packaged the sack lunches for everyone. Proof yet again of why DeWitt is the best place to live and work.
We sincerely thank you for your support and appreciation!
While this year has been difficult for many, the residents and team members of Illini Restorative Care in Silvis, IL took the time this week to reflect on what they’re thankful for.
Our residents and families may not be able to celebrate Thanksgiving as they normally would, but the spirit of the holiday season lives on through the trials of this pandemic.
The IRC and WellSpire family wishes you all a Happy Thanksgiving!
This week has been a long one for many. And for our nurses, CNAs, aides, therapists, activities team, culinary team members, housekeepers, concierges, environmental services teams, schedulers, social workers, and administrators in our communities who are filling many other roles, it's not over.
Thank you for making it possible, day after day and especially now, for WellSpire to serve those who place their trust in us. You are valued and appreciated more than you know.
Make MaLinda's Christmas Merry, and YOUR future Bright!
Come join our 5 Star Team at Illini Restorative Care.
We are hiring for CNA, LPN, and RN.
Apply here: https://recruiting2.ultipro.com/wes1039wesl/jobboard/ed770a23-64e6-4792-9e85-963980064f4c/?q=&o=postedDateDesc
LeadingAge, the nationwide advocacy organization for not-for-profit senior living, announces an Award of Honor each year, and the recipient’s story is always inspirational. This year, we were honored to learn that the recipient is ... ALL LeadingAge members, including everyone at WellSpire. Please take a moment to watch the video below in honor of our front-line team members. Thank you all!
Join me in congratulating this year's Award of Honor: every member of LeadingAge.
🇺🇸Veterans and auxiliary members at Westwing Place, our community in DeWitt, IA, were recognized today for their service to our country. The DeWitt American Legion and Auxiliary provided a tasty treat and each honoree received a beautiful floral arrangement created by Meant To Be With Flowers.🇺🇸
On behalf of all team members and your fellow residents at Westwing Place, we thank you for your service and our freedoms.
On this Veterans Day at Illini Restorative Care in Silvis, Illinois, we honor and recognize those who have selflessly served our country. Our guests and residents who are veterans were treated to a special breakfast from our neighbor, Hy-Vee, and each have a flag placed outside their door so that we may honor them this week.
We have set a table to honor our missing men and women in arms who are unable to join us, and we invite you to read this poem and thank our military men and women for their sacrifice and service for our country.
⬛️🟧The residents and team at Westwing Place wish you all a Happy Halloween!🟧⬛️
🥇 Winner of this year’s costume contest goes to Kristen! Don’t let her Nurse Ratched disguise fool you - she’s neither cold nor heartless and provides great nursing care to her residents.
🥇 Winner of this year’s pumpkin decorating contest goes to Tonya! Check out her rendition of “Winston”; Tonya is a partner in our food & beverage department and has a dog named Winston at home that looks just the same!
"Happy Halloween" 🎃 from Crosstown Square, Silvis Community
🎃 👻 HAPPY HALLOWEEN 👻🎃
Illini Restorative Care in Silvis, Illinois celebrated with costumes, treats and fun! Team members paraded through the community in their costumes and many laughs were shared by all.
We wish you a safe and happy Halloween weekend!
Harley brought a friend for this fall’s visit to Westwing Place in DeWitt! Harley and Husker are both 4-year-old miniature horses and are joined by helpers Monika & Sharon with New Kingdom Trailriders. This superhero foursome brought joy and laughter this morning with their visit to welcome this Halloween weekend!
Congratulations to Illini Restorative Care!
U.S. News and World Report released its rankings today of the United States' best Skilled Nursing communities, and IRC is proud to have received a "High Performing" rating for short-term rehabilitation AND long-term nursing care! Only 21% of the 15,000 health centers in the country earn that annual rating.
What does this mean to you? When you choose to rehabilitate at IRC, you can be assured you are receiving services from specialists in resident care and safety who work consistently to help our community achieve superior outcomes on behalf of those we serve.
To learn more about rehabilitating at IRC, call Cheli at (309)373-1765. She'll tell you all about our services and amenities, and about our team of physical, occupational, and speech therapists who can help get you well and send you home quickly.
Come see what U.S. News and World Report is talking about. We would love to welcome you to IRC!
We are so proud of the care our WellSpire communities provide to older adults in the Quad Cities! Janine Cawiezell of Davenport, the daughter of a resident of Westwing Place in DeWitt, took the time to recognize team member Taylor Owen, Community Nurse Liaison for WellSpire, for helping Janine's family make an emotional decision. Janine's story is below.
Thank you, Taylor and Westwing! We are proud of you!
"Taylor was a key factor in our choosing Westwing for the care of our father," Janine wrote. "From our very first meeting with her, she answered all of our questions and has continuously addressed all concerns. If she doesn’t know an answer, she will find it.
"Taylor has continued to reach out during these past weeks to follow up on our father’s progress and to ask if we need anything. Her kindness and professionalism shine through every time I have contact with her. She has gone above and beyond to facilitate everything from the admission process to making sure our father’s stay has progressed well.
"The care and compassion exhibited by Taylor have set the tone for our experience thus far, and I can only hope that her character exemplifies the standard of care at Westwing!"
The end of the year is a popular time for elective surgery. If someone you love is scheduled for knee or hip replacement and will require short-term rehabilitation after his or her hospital stay, consider a WesleyLife Community for Healthy Living!
Our award-winning health centers with teams of physical, occupational, and speech therapists are uniquely qualified to restore strength and well-being in older adults. Our health centers are open to anyone -- NOT just residents of our communities -- and in most cases, services are covered by insurance.
What's more, our network of at-home services means your family member can continue to regain health and strength after returning home. And more than 97% of rehabilitation clients say they recommend our services to family and friends!
Want to learn more? Call Ward at (515) 201-9675 to arrange your private tour today, and take a moment to read the article in the link below for more information. We would love the opportunity to serve you!
https://www.wesleylife.org/rehab-and-nursing/
Crosstown Square is celebrating this happy couple, Richard Krantz & Genevieve Bennett! They exchanged vows yesterday, October 14th, on the Mississippi river in Port Byron, IL at Genevieve’s previous home (now her daughter’s home). Congratulations Dick & Gen!
Crosstown Square is sharing this happy couple’s pandemic blessing!
Oktoberfest made its way today to residents at Westwing in DeWitt! There’s nothing better than good beer🍺, bratwurst🌭, mustard, and pretzels🥨 to celebrate the beginning of fall 🍁; of course with German Oompa 🎶 ringing down the hallways. 🇩🇪
1455 Hospital Road
Silvis, IL
61282
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As we continue to celebrate nurses week and recognize those that have dedicated their care to those living in our community, meet Lesley, a registered nurse at our DeWitt location - Westwing Place. Lesley left formal nursing leadership after several years, bringing herself “back to the floor” and providing direct care to residents. Thank you, Lesley for your kindness and compassion!
In honor of National Nurses’ Week, Illlini Restorative Care in Silvis, Illinois asked one of its nurses to share (virtually and honestly! 😉) why she became a nurse and how nursing has changed her life. We thank Beth and all of our nurses for their ongoing care, skill and compassion. Stay tuned, as we will continue to share stories from team members and residents about nurses and the impact they have had on our lives! #nationalnursesweek
Yesterday was a great day for an outdoor concert! 55 degrees and partly sunny called for live music courtesy of Jef Spradley and Jordan Danielsen for our residents at Westwing in DeWitt! Residents enjoyed the music from the comfort of their recliners with cracked windows and fresh air flowing. Resident Fran was serenaded by the duo in celebration of her birthday. What a treat! See more photos in the comments!
When you're jumping rope during a well-being break and someone aims a camera at you, there's a pretty good chance you'll hide, right? Not Kristy VanderWiel, Vice President of People and Culture for WesleyLife! Many of you are familiar with Kristy, and now you also know what a great sport she is. (Thanks to WesleyLife director of wellness Shannon Draayer for leading us outside to take advantage of today's beautiful weather!)
At Westwing Place in DeWitt, Iowa, working as a Certified Nursing Assistant is about more than a resident's physical care. Cody Bloomquist, CNA and unit assistant, talks about a surprising way he used his college history degree to ease the anxiety of a resident with a memory deficit. Westwing Place is hiring! If you're a CNA who's looking for enhanced purpose and meaning in your job, we'd love to talk with you. Call De at (563) 659-4212, or email her your resume at [email protected]. We'd love to welcome you to Westwing Place!
Are you an RN or LPN who's looking for more than just a paycheck? Listen to MaLinda, Director of Nursing for Illini Restorative Care, talk about all the factors that set IRC apart from the competition. MaLinda knows leadership matters and strives to be the the kind of DON she'd want to work alongside. If you like what MaLinda has to say, please reach out to her directly at (309) 281-3212, or [email protected].
As we continue to introduce you to WellSpire, we also want you to know WesleyLife, the organization partnering with Genesis Health System to bring enhanced health and well-being to older adults in the Quad Cities. On this Mission Monday, we talk with Krista Van Hooser-Perin, Director of Organizational Learning for WesleyLife, about what attracted her to WesleyLife's mission. Personal experience with a family member who has a disability led her here -- and her connection to our mission keeps her with us!
WellSpire is a partnership between WesleyLife of Johnston, Iowa, and Genesis Health System of Davenport, Iowa, formed to help older adults in the Quad Cities and the surrounding area to live healthier lives of purpose and meaning. WellSpire communities include Westwing Place in Dewitt, Iowa; Crosstown Square / Illini Restorative Care in Silvis, Illinois; and The Summit of Bettendorf, which will open in early 2021 in Bettendorf, Iowa. For information, visit wellspireliving.org.