Senior Friends: FRIENDS IN DEED: HOSPITAL GROUP KEEPS SENIORS ACTIVE
Six years ago, a neighbor invited Port St. Lucie resident Dorothy Muller, 72, to a Senior Friends meeting at St. Lucie Medical Center. Muller had been widowed the previous year and spent the months after her husband's death home, alone.She was grateful for the invitation to the meeting, she said."That was the beginning of everything," says Muller.Today, Muller has joined her "Senior Friends" for line-dancing classes,...
MEMORIAL: SENIOR FRIENDS PROGRAM WILL GROW
The Senior Friends program will not only remain, but it also will grow as Memorial Health System has taken over the program and will roll its own Senior Circle members into the plan.Memorial announced Thursday that it would take over from Columbia/HCA as the local chapter after Memorial and Halifax Medical Center each bought one of Columbia's two area hospitals last month. The programs are designed to offer health-related and social activities for seniors. They also provide an...
Senior Friends club offers fellowship
Senior Friends club offers fellowship Strelsa Schreiber Tribune Staff Writer Senior Friends, an organization open to folks 55 years or older and sponsored by Lawnwood Regional Medical Center in Fort Pierce and Columbia Medical Center in Port St. Lucie, includes among its variety of programs and activities a monthly birthday party for its members.Last Monday was the date scheduled for Port St. Lucie members born in July to gather together and celebrate their special...
Englewood Community Hospital's Senior Friends have lively gala
Englewood Community Hospital's Senior Friends celebrated its eighth anniversary with a gala party March 21.The Suncoast Auditorium never looked finer with banners, festive centerpieces and a crowd of nearly 200 guests. Adding to the lively atmosphere was the music of 23 Skidoo, a four-member ensemble featuring Jim Baby on trumpet, Patti Starwyck on keyboard, Bill Reilly on tuba and the group's leader, Dick O'Dell on banjo.They played to the crowd,...
SENIOR FRIENDS HELP MEET ACTIVE ADULTS' NEEDS
The National Association of Senior Friends, headquartered in Nashville, Tenn., is a not-for- profit organization with more than a quarter million members nationwide. The Palm Beach County chapter, with locations at Columbia Hospital in West Palm Beach and at JFK Medical Center in Atlantis, has more than 1,300 Senior Friends members. Senior Friends is dedicated to meeting the physical and social needs of today's active adults who are 50 and over. As a member of Senior Friends, good...