Jerome Home and Arbor Rose honor long-time employees

NEW BRITAIN – More than 30 employees of Jerome Home and Arbor Rose, 975 Corbin Ave., were recognized with Longevity Awards at a celebration held on May 16. Staffers who had worked there from five to 25 years as of 2018-19 were honored. Among them were the two executive directors: William Menoche, Arbor Rose; and Lori Toombs, Jerome Home, both of whom have achieved 10 years. Two employees, Susan Kuchman, human resources director, and Lyudmila Voytovich, certified nursing assistant, reached their 25-year milestones.

Kuchman began working at Jerome Home in a temp position in 1993 and regards the residents as her extended family, she said. “You know you’ve been here a long time when children of former residents are now becoming residents themselves,” she joked. “But it also says a lot about Jerome Home when they want to come to us because of how well we treated their family members in the past.”

Additional honorees included five years - Mary Burgos, Amparo Castaneda, Eva Clark, Claudia D’Onofrio, Denise Ferreira, Ronald Hearn, Christine McEachron, Courtney Rockhill, Frances Rogers, Lizeth Senior-Hazel and Alexandria Weber; 10 years - David Brown, Irena Dabrowska, Patrice Eleveld, Virginia Flores, Elzbieta Kolc, Kelli Makara, Grazyna Mikucki, Brenda Nunez, Susann Pavano, Marilyn Szymanski, Violetta Tokarczyk; 15 years - Krystyna Davis, Martina Haynes Esnard, Barbara Korycinska, Stacy Puzio and Susan Skarzynski.

Jerome Home, located at 975 Corbin Ave. in New Britain, is a managed community under Hartford HealthCare Senior Services that offers skilled nursing, inpatient/outpatient rehabilitation, residential care, memory care and assisted living. Arbor Rose offers independent and assisted living with memory care on the campus of Jerome Home. For more information about Arbor Rose and Jerome Home, visit jeromehome.org.