Providence Marianwood hosts ‘Spring Approaches’ show
March 26, 2013
Three Issaquah institutions — Providence Marianwood skilled nursing home, the artEAST artists’ group and UP Front Gallery — are joining forces to bring artwork to the community.
The current show in the Marianwood gallery, entitled “Spring Approaches,” features work by artists from the UP Front Gallery in Issaquah. It is co-sponsored by Providence Marianwood and artEAST.
Issaquah artist Heidi Rose is showing several portraits of buildings from the local area. With watercolor, pen and ink, and pencil, Rose captures the remarkable and extraordinary beauty of seemingly common and everyday sights from the surrounding community — a red barn, a historic building and a chapel are among her subjects.
Contributed
The dog portrait above is by Janis Smith. At top right is the Hailstone Feed Store by Heidi Rose. At bottom right is art by Erika Carter.
Tricks and treats
March 5, 2013
Taryn the dog bowls for joy at Marianwood
By Lillian O’Rorke
Joey Iversen, a Sammamish animal trainer, receives a high-five from Taryn, a deaf miniature Australian shepherd dog, during a program of tricks and petting therapy Feb. 28 for residents at Providence Marianwood nursing home.
With a thrust of her black shiny nose, Taryn rolls a six on a large, soft die and wins the game of 21 she’s been playing against the residents of Providence Marianwood.
Who’s News
December 25, 2012
Swedish/Issaquah receives patient satisfaction honor
The Swedish/Issaquah emergency room was recently named a 2012 Summit Award Winner by Press Ganey Associates.
The ER received the award by achieving and maintaining patient satisfaction scores in the 95th percentile or above for at least three consecutive years. The Swedish/Issaquah team also won in 2009, 2010 and 2011.
The Press Ganey Summit Award is the health care satisfaction industry’s most coveted symbol of achievement bestowed annually. The Swedish/Issaquah ER is one of 114 health care facilities in the country to receive the prestigious honor in 2012, and one of only 101 to receive it for achieving and sustaining excellence in patient satisfaction.
Providence Marianwood expands number of transitional care beds
August 7, 2012
Providence Marianwood, in Issaquah, is adding beds to serve patients transitioning from a hospital to their homes.
The facility has expanded from 29 to 57 transitional care beds, an increase to 50 percent of the building.
Operated by Providence Health & Services, Marianwood is the only not-for-profit skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility in the Issaquah/Sammamish area. Learn more at www.providencemarianwood.org.
The move to increase transitional care beds came from an increase in demand for short-stay, post-hospitalization skilled nursing and rehabilitation.
2012-13 Business Directory
August 6, 2012
Fundraising by foot, from Spokane to Issaquah
July 31, 2012
Arlene Carter, Providence Marianwood Foundation executive director (left) photographs Johann Neethling and his daughter Maria Henderson as they break the finish-line tape and are showered with confetti thrown by staffing coordinator Amy Lewis (right), after their cross-state fundraising walk. By Greg Farrar
Dozens of staff members and residents of Providence Marianwood cheered for Chaplain Johann Neethling as he crossed the finish line July 25 after a more than 300-mile walk from Spokane.
Providence Marianwood chaplain walks across state, finishes on schedule
July 25, 2012
Johann Neethling (in front at left), chaplain for Providence Marianwood, finishes the home stretch of his eight-day, Spokane-to-Issaquah walk July 25. His daughter Maria Henderson (in safety vest) walked with him from start to finish. Her three children (from left) Cale, 13, Chris, 15 and Molli, 14, joined their mother and grandfather in the front of the entourage on 228th Avenue Southeast. By Greg Farrar
NEW — 4 p.m. July 25, 2012
Dozens of staff members and residents of Providence Marianwood cheered for Chaplain Johann Neethling as he crossed the finish line Wednesday after a more than 300-mile trip from Spokane.
Providence Marianwood chaplain walks across state for fundraiser
July 24, 2012
The chaplain at the Providence Marianwood assisted-care facility, Klahanie resident Johann Neethling, embarked July 18 on a 300-mile trek from Spokane to Seattle — on foot.
Motivated by a desire to maintain and improve fitness after surviving a heart attack, Neethling is also using the walk as a fundraiser to benefit the residents and staffers at Providence Marianwood.
Mouseketeer Ginny Tyler, voice artist and Issaquah resident, dies
July 24, 2012
Ginny Tyler
Disney legend Ginny Tyler — a former head Mouseketeer on “The Mickey Mouse Club” and a noted voice artist — died July 13 in Issaquah.
Tyler, 86, a resident at the Providence Marianwood assisted-care facility, maintained a lifelong pride in TV and film roles for Disney. In addition to succeeding Annette Funicello on “The Mickey Mouse Club,” Tyler provided the voice for a pair of squirrels in the Disney classic “The Sword in the Stone” and, for 20th Century Fox, as Polynesia the Parrot in the original “Doctor Dolittle.”
“It was so thrilling to work for Walt Disney,” Tyler recalled in a 2010 interview with The Issaquah Press. “People would say, ‘Get that voice girl!’”
Mouseketeer Ginny Tyler, voice artist and Issaquah resident, dies
July 23, 2012
NEW — 3 p.m. July 23, 2012
Disney legend Ginny Tyler — a former head Mouseketeer on “The Mickey Mouse Club” and a noted voice artist — died July 13 in Issaquah.
Ginny Tyler
Tyler, 86, a resident at the Providence Marianwood assisted-care facility, maintained a lifelong pride in TV and film roles for Disney. In addition to succeeding Annette Funicello on “The Mickey Mouse Club,” Tyler provided the voice for a pair of squirrels in the Disney classic “The Sword in the Stone” and, for 20th Century Fox, as Polynesia the Parrot in the original “Doctor Dolittle.”
“It was so thrilling to work for Walt Disney,” Tyler recalled in a 2010 interview with The Issaquah Press. “People would say, ‘Get that voice girl!’”
