2019 Awards for Cassia Excellence (ACEs) award winners. Pictured with Cassia CEO Bob Dahl: Stephanie Erickson, Excellence in Customer Engagement. Judy Snook, Resident Fullness of Life. Laura Jones, Excellence in Volunteerism. Steven Huynh, Excellence in…
The Cassia Life By Jesse Watkins, Cassia’s own resident blogger Nothing brings out the very best in us quite like taking care of someone we love. Often, when the basics of good care have been…
Tarajee Wilson has worked as a licensed practical nurse at Augustana Care Moose Lake Health Care Center for the past three years. She co-chaired the Alzheimer’s fundraiser project and raised more than $2,000. Tarajee’s commitment…
The Cassia Life By Jesse Watkins, Cassia’s own resident blogger “The best fitness activity is one that you will stick with and make a habit of in your life! This comment came my way while…
VIDEO BY WCCO Driven by their husband/father’s diagnosis of Younger-Onset Alzheimer’s, a local family partnering with Cassia (formerly Augustana Care and Elim Care) created Parks’ Place: Memory Care Redefined. Parks’ Place celebrated its opening day…
The Cassia Life By Jesse Watkins, Cassia’s own resident blogger Exploring the territory known as the pursuit of happiness, most specifically how as seniors we get there, or don’t, was the subject of my previous…
The Cassia Life By Jesse Watkins, Cassia’s own resident blogger I wish I could read aloud to you from the book Happiness is a Choice You Make. Released in 2018, the 250-pager was written by…
Meet Care Coordinator Karla Kulseth, Lakeside Apartments and Assisted Living Karla has been a Lakeside campus staff member for 10 years. She has worked as a certified nursing assistant and a trained medication assistant Lakeside…
The Cassia Life By Jesse Watkins, Cassia’s own resident blogger How could any Minnesotan, Iowan, Dakotan, etc. put down their own State Fair? Here in Minnesota and certainly in Iowa, the fairs are established institutions…
The Cassia Life By Jesse Watkins, Cassia’s own resident blogger I’m talking about 90 years of age, not 90 miles per hour. There are times, of course, that the two do feel like they’ve bonded–things…
