Treemont Retirement Blog

Healthy Tips for Seniors: New Community Liaison Role for Linda Parra

Senior Allegiance is the preferred provider for Treemont Community. Senior Allegiance can help residents thrive in their homes with assistance via Home Health services or Personal Care services.

Home Health care is defined by Medicare as a wide range of health care services that can be given in your home for an illness or injury. The goal of home health care is to treat an illness or injury and to improve and maintain your independence.

Services Senior Allegiance Home Health Provides includes:

• Therapy (Physical, Occupational, Speech)               - Wound Care
• Monitoring serious illness/unstable health status      -Injections
• Intravenous or nutrition therapy                               -Patient/caregiver education
• Psychiatric Nursing                                                   -Home Health Aide
• Social Worker Services

Personal Care Services (PAS) provide a range of services that allow residents and families to have peace of mind

Healthy Tips for Seniors: Emotional Needs and Exercise

Emotional needs and support have become a crucial part of our health, especially during the COVID19 pandemic. While exercise is usually associated with physical benefits to the body, exercise also greatly benefits one’s emotional needs. Below are different ways that exercise enhances one’s emotional requirements.

Reduces stress: Exercise helps reduce mental and physical stress on the body. While reducing stress hormones, exercise stimulates the production of endorphins that can promote relaxation and increase happiness.

Better Sleep: Physical exercise can be exhausting to the body requiring it to need rest. Exercise allows the mind to decompress making it easier to fall asleep, as well as physical body changes such as change in body temperature that enables sleepiness. When we sleep, the body is able to recover physically and mentally, also increasing our energy levels. Blood flow

Spotlight on Houston Assisted Living Manager Jennifer Case

The Treemont Campus is fortunate to provide an excellent continuum of care for the residents who live here and this month we are delighted to announce the return of Assisted Living Nurse Manager/Infection Control Specialist, Jennifer Case LVN, who manages the Treemont Assisted Living Program.

When people talk about our Assisted Living community, they are immediately talking about Jennifer because the quality of the program is a result of her leadership. When families and residents talk about an employee and consistently use the word “Love,” you realize that you have someone very special. Jennifer was born and raised in Lincoln, Nebraska and moved to Houston 14 years ago. She is a mother of four children: a son living in Saudi Arabia and another son and two daughters living in Houston. She loves being a mother and, when raising her children, realized how much she loved being a care giver. When the children were all in school she decided to go to nursing school and found that it was a natural career transition. She wants to make a difference in the lives of people. In addition to nursing, Jennifer loves music, gardening, camping, fishing and geology. She describes herself as a “Rock Hound.”

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Spotlight on Houston Nursing Admissions Director Crystal Marie Luna

Crystal Marie Luna, Admissions Director is the first point of contact for Independent Living residents to transition to Treemont's Health Care Center full-time, or temporarily, for rehabilitation.

Residents often come to skilled nursing, rehab or assisted living following medical setbacks, such as a complicated infection, a fall resulting in a fracture, or a stroke resulting in the need for retraining in daily living tasks. One benefit of residing at Treemont is that there is a Health Care Center (HCC) on the campus, just off Building B, to provide rehabilitation after a hospital stay. Crystal is responsible for sharing our historic community with families of seniors who are searching for strong short-term nursing and rehabilitation services or transition to an assisted living setting.

Crystal has 9 years of experience in Nursing Homes, initially as a Receptionist, then as Assistant Business Office Manager, Medical Records, and then as an Admissions Director. She was attracted to Treemont due to the family environment and culture.

New Administrator Laura Winegeart says, “I believe Crystal has the skills to work with our families so they are comfortable with all the options the Treemont Campus has to offer for

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Spotlight on Houston Nursing Home Administrator Laura Winegeart

The post of Administrator is a key role and sets the tone for quality of care, resident engagement and morale among staff. We are absolutely delighted to have Administrator Laura Winegeart at the helm of Treemont Health Care Center. With 15 years of experience in long-term health care, starting at age 16 with receipt of her CNA license in high school at age 15, Laura, age 31, has worked in just about every area of a nursing home: as a CNA, in Medical Records, Human Resources and 10 years in Marketing/Admissions. Laura also has experience working in home health and hospice care but has always returned to her passion of caring for seniors in a nursing home setting.

As a relatively new Administrator, Laura has already successfully guided her previous community through a Hurricane and Electrical outage. Knowing health care from the bottom up is a strength valued by our Owners and a key reason Laura was selected for this key leadership role on the Treemont Campus.

Residents often come to skilled nursing, rehab or assisted living following medical setbacks,