News  Clermont Aged Care

February, 2012
Farewell to Christelle

Pictured here at her Farewell Party with our lovely 102 year old Prieta Lopez is our very popular Christelle.

Christelle began work at Clermont in June 2004 as an Assistant-In- Nursing. With the encouragement of our Registered Nurses, Christelle commenced her Bachelor of Nursing with the Australian Catholic University completing the course in 2011. Christelle has now commenced her new placement program in the public system at Westmead Hospital. Although we will all miss her, we wish her all the best. Good Luck and Congratulations from all of us at Clermont."

January, 2012
Prieta turns 102!

Yes it was that time of year again! Pictured here is our wonderful Prieta Lopez who turned 102 on the 28th January.

Prieta had a lovely day celebrating her birthday with a party of 15 family members coming to Clermont for afternoon tea, the centerpiece of which was this beautiful Birthday Cake. The downstairs dining room was decorated with Pink and White balloons, streamers, pink table clothes, serviettes and cups. A "Happy Birthday Prieta" message decorated the large white board. We know you had a lovely birthday and from all of your friends here at Clermont.

"Congratulations and Happy Birthday, Prieta!"

December, 2011
Clermont Panto

In December the Foolhardy Players put on another sellout and once only performance of the Annual Christmas Panto.

This year it was Robin Hoods turn to have his tale of daring-doo given the Clermont treatment at the hands of a cast of .....well, not thousands......... but an enthusiastic few. After rehearsing in their own time and often at the end of a long shift for months, the performance was (almost) flawless with lots of ad-libbing and fantastic acting particularly from our Physiotherapist Chris Dodd who did a great job as the hero, Robin Hood. Even his kids thought he was terrific!

Fess Foulkes our Diversional Therapist did a marvellous job in providing live music accompaniment and Baz Hallinan decided that for this year he would leave the high heels to Karuna Prasad to play Maid Marion whilst he took on the rotund role of Friar Tuck.

Little John was an astoundingly good performance from Christelle Ternel; our Director of Nursing, Dawn McDonald looked great in tights as Will Scarlett and the taxing role of the evil Sheriff of Nottingham was done by Steve Gordon. Other fabulous performances came from Evelyn Ellis, Emelda Zantua, Jason Rasuabale, Melissa Albrecht with special thanks to Julia Foulkes for the posters and programs even though she is living in London. Thanks too for the wonderful staging by Annette, Clive and Danny .

We must make special note for a wonderful cinematographic experience from Geordie McCrae. Geordie provides his time as a community service bringing along his camera, his expertise and his patience. He films the pantomime and provides us with the video's we sell to make money for the Therapy Program. Thank you very much Geordie and well done to everyone concerned for another very entertaining Christmas Pantomime.

November, 2011
Excellence in Aged Care

Excellence in aged care provided by Clermont was again recognised this year at the annual Aged Care Association Convention on the Gold Coast.

Pictured here with Director Steve Gordon is our Director of Nursing, Dawn McDonald receiving a trophy from Neil Saxton, Board Member of the HESTA Superannuation Fund naming Clermont as the 2011 Employer of Choice.

Many of the hundreds of members of ACAA applied for this prestigious award including many aged care organisations with multiple facilities and it is a credit to the professionalism and dedication of the staff at Clermont that of all the applicants Australia wide, it was Clermont Aged Care that took out the award.

The award judges were highly impressed with Clermont’s broad range of achievements including the quality of service provided to our residents, our staff development programs and the innovations we have put in place for the seniors in our care.

Clermont Aged Care Director Steve Gordon said: “These awards are a testament to the quality of care we provide at Clermont for our residents and particularly they recognise the hard work of our staff, our wonderful residents and the support we receive from the Ryde community."

June, 2011
Staff Recognition Dinner

Pictured here with our Director Steve Gordon is Laraine Rutter, Jayne Shannon and Jan Abberfield.

Each year we recognise those staff members that have been with Clermont for 5, 10, 15, 20 or more years.

Laraine started at Clermont in 1985 and has clocked up over 25 years, Jayne began in 1991 and has 20 years and  Jan who began in 1996 has been with Clermont for 15 years service. 

These senior members of staff continue to provide excellence in nursing care and are instrumental in the delivery of training to the students from ACU who do their placements with us. Each of the ladies pictured received a Certificate of Service, a badge or recognition and a gift from a very grateful Steve.

March, 2011
John Alexander MP
at our Over 90's Club

Pictured here with some of our Lovely Ladies is our local Federal Member of Parliament, Mr. John Alexander.

Mr. Alexander graciously accepted an invitation to attend one of our famous Over 90's Club Afternoon Teas.

We had a wonderful afternoon with our silver service tea and fine china although they were probably not in the same category as the trophies in Mr. Alexander's cabinet that he got as a very successful tennis player for Australia. Everyone enjoyed a very informal time and Mr. Alexander has promised to come back and see our Over 90's Club members again soon.

January, 2011
101st Birthday of
Prieta Lopez

We had a wonderful day on 28th when we helped celebrate the 101st birthday of our lovely Prieta Lopez.

Prieta had a fabulous time with her family and friends coming along to help her celebrate with a wonderful party and a huge cake.

Our local paper, The Weekly Times, also attended and ran a special piece in the newspaper about our very special resident.

Congratulations and Happy Birthday, Prieta!

December, 2010
Christmas Pantomime
"The Wizard of Oz"

This year's annual Christmas Pantomime saw 'The Wizard of Oz' come to life on the Clermont Stage.

Dorothy (played by Baz) was accompanied by her friends Scarecrow (played by Laraine), Tin Man (played by Evelyn) and Lion (played by Steve) down the Yellow Brick Road. Assisted by Glinda the Good Witch of the North (played by Dawn) our intrepid band arrive at the Emerald City to seek the assistance of The Great Oz (played by Chris) to help Scarecrow find a brain, Tin Man find a Heart, Lion become brave and Dorothy to get home to Kansas.

Watched by a full house followed by afternoon tea we had a wonderful afternoon and the beautifully edited video is now available for those who want a copy for their library. A truely remarkable collector's piece and a wonderful Academy Award winning performance by all.

24th June, 2010
Award Winning
Registered Nurse

At the recent Aged Care Association of Australia's N.S.W. State Congress, Registered Nurse, Cherry Lun was recognised for her outstanding achievements as a nurse in aged care.

Cherry came from Guang Zhou City in Guang Dong Province, China and has been employed at Clermont as an Assistant-in-Nursing for 3 years whilst she studied for her nursing degree.

Now fully qualified, Cherry is employed as a Registered Nurse at Clermont.

Director of Nursing, Mrs. Dawn McDonald said that "Cherry was a brilliant Assistant-in-Nursing and is becoming an extremely efficient R.N. who is well liked by all our staff, our residents and their families. To be recognised as a HESTA Award recipient is a great honour and thoroughly deserved."

Pictured is Cherry receiving her Award from ACAA Manager Member Services Kay Richards and the Manager from the NSW State Office of HESTA one of the largest of the Industry Super Funds."

13th April, 2010
New Clermont Website

Clermont Aged Care officially launched their new website this morning. The new website was created to provide information relevant to existing and potential friends of Clermont in a clear, clean and easy to use manner.

If you have any feedback in regard to the website or have encountered difficulty using it, please contact us.

If you would like to find out more about Clermont Aged Care, please contact us here. We look forward to hearing from you.

November, 2009
Clermont recognised for excellence in aged care

At the recent Aged Care Australia Association annual Congress held in Melbourne, Clermont was recognised for it's excellence in aged care. Here our Director of Nursing, Mrs Dawn McDonald receives a trophy from the ACAA CEO Charles Wurf for "Excellence in Management" as runner up in this Australia wide competition.

In competition with major multi-national and Austalian providors of care, the services offered and the standards of care given by our staff and our Director of Nursing were acknowledged as being the very best in the country.