1. Courtney Whitten, RN and Tom Ellefsen, RN, ADN of Cornerstone VNA displayed their gratitude to other healthcare workers in November in recognition and celebration of National Home Care, Hospice and Palliative Care Month. Cornerstone VNA is a nonprofit home health and hospice care provider currently serving Rockingham, Strafford, Belknap and Carroll counties in New Hampshire and York County in Maine.
2. David Constant, co-owner of Constantly Pizza, sits next to the BSE Air Treatment System in the restaurant’s Concord location. Technology Education Concepts, Inc. of Concord, a 30-year provider of design-tomanufacturing solutions to schools and local industry, has worked with Constantly Pizza to install the air treatment system in each of their two restaurant locations in Concord and Penacook to mitigate pathogens and contaminates at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.
6. The Capital Region Food Program is the recipient of a $4,995 donation from FEEDNH.org, the charitable trust for Great NH Restaurants (T-BONES, Cactus Jack’s and Copper Door). The funds were raised during the month of November as part of the organizations’ online 50/50 raffle. Pictured here: Capital Region Food Program’s board member Elena M. Preston, FEEDNH.org’s Ambassador of Philanthropy Tanya Rudolph and CRFP board chair Timothy Grotheer.
4. Patricia Cummings, administrator at the Edgewood Centre of Portsmouth, and Patricia Ramsey, owner of the independently owned and operated long-term care facility, display the Silver Achievement in Quality Award from the American Health Care Association and the National Center for Assisted Living. The Edgewood Centre previously received the Bronze Commitment to Quality Award in 2012. The award is earned after a rigorous application and review standard, with criteria for each step based on the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program.
5. Through the month of December, Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock (CHaD) and the Friends of Norris Cotton Cancer Center will host a month-long fundraiser to encourage supporters to make a final year-end donation to ‘Make it snow!’ with a blizzard of goodwill for children and cancer patients who receive care from both programs. Donations made will support patients like the Coombs family (pictured). Janette Coombs is undergoing her second round of cancer treatments at NCCC. Janette’s son Nick, now 27, was a long-time patient at CHaD. To help “Make it snow!” donors can visit MakeItSnow.org or text ‘makeitsnow’ to 1-844-933-3720.
3. North Branch Construction has donated the proceeds from the firm’s annual Safety Fine Program to two deserving nonprofit organizations: the NHSPCA in Stratham, NH, and Twin Pines Housing Trust out of White River Junction, Vt. The program requires subcontractors and employees to pay a fine when repeat OSHA safety violations are observed. In 2020, the Safety Fine Program proceeds totaled nearly $3,000, resulting in a $1,500 donation to each organization. North Branch Construction is currently renovating buildings for both organizations.
