Events & News

I noticed a couple (probably in their mid-eighties) smiling at each other as they sat together. The husband is in a chair sitting very close to his wife who is in a wheelchair. Holding hands watching the hustle and bustle happenings around the nursing station. They...

It was five years ago that a small group of leaders sat around a table and together with prayerful hearts decided what our goals were for Palm Garden. Out of that discussion evolved our Vision, Values and Mission Statement. That has been the bedrock of our success in...

When Pam Brody started in show business more than 51 years ago in London, her agent said she had to have a name, something to describe her act, something that would stick. ”He told me people were sick of ‘glamorous,’ so I became ‘vivacious’,” Brody explained over her...

Dear Palm Garden Family, Could you imagine being born in a country and then living so long that they changed the name? The same country just a different name? You might say: “I mean, never mind it had been called Constantinople since May of 330 AD. I’m gone for a...

Dear Palm Garden Family, July is Palm Garden GEM Celebration Month. We think that knowing our guests, residents and families’ life story better informs how to care for them. See, we believe to truly care for people we must know them personally. We walk in their shoes;...

Dear Palm Garden Family, July is Palm Garden GEM Celebration Month. GEMs are the hallmark of the Palm Garden Way. We are empowered and expected to celebrate the life story for each and every guest, member, and resident entrusted to our care.  GEMs aren’t identified by...

Dear Palm Garden Family, I want to share with you the best Christmas gift I could imagine. It’s a long story (and most of the good ones are) but I’ll boil it down for you. I was visiting a center yesterday and a team member stopped me and said “Luke, I have someone...

Good Morning Palm Garden Family, This year at one of our centers the Grinch stole Santa’s “Steven R. Covey” planner. That’s right. Without his planner, Santa wasn’t going to show up. When one of your team members learned of this she said “Oh no you didn’t! Where’s the...

We celebrate life stories and I want to share one with you. But first, I’d like you to put on your “empathy cap.” Imagine if you were 99 years old. You’re lounging in bed watching one of those morning shows probably thinking “just 3 more months to 100!” and the guy on...

There’s an ancient proverb that says, “When you save a life you save the world.” Zita Wilensky, our Director of Life Enrichment, Palm Garden of Aventura, is hard to capture in a picture because she is always loving, nurturing, and finding our guests, families, and...