Staff & residents participate in Knott County’s 36th aannual Gingerbread Festival Parade. This years theme was My Old Kentucky Home. Our Old time Log Cabin Float was a huge hit with the crowd. The festival featured many activities including cartoon characters on Saturday and an adult gingerbread baking competition. Thanks to everyone who helped in…
We want to say another huge “thank you” to our excellent nurse aides here at Knott County Health and Rehab! We are so thankful for the care you provide for our residents and we enjoyed celebrating you last week. To celebrate, we had fun games and activities that everyone enjoyed and bonded over as well…
Knott county Health & Rehabilitation Center out in full force to show our support for Relay For Life. Our theme is from the movie Backdraft, ” Fired Up For A Cure”. It stars Kurt Russell and William Baldwin and is about the brave fire fighters who risk their lives. We encourage everyone to take time…
Residents and staff of Knott Co. HRC spent Sunday celebrating the mothers in the facility and outside the facility with beautiful bouquets of spring flowers, tiny pink and purple cupcakes, Hallmark cards and just sharing the wonderful joys of parenthood. Mother’s Day was created in 1908 by Anna Jarvis and became an official U.S.…
The first Saturday of May is always a glorious time in the Bluegrass where every gal wears a giant hat with their spring dress and every guy wears a seersucker suit. It’s Derby Day. A rain-soaked crowd filled the stands at Churchill Downs to watch the 144th annual Kentucky Derby to witness WinStar Farm’s Justify…
Knott County Health and Rehabilitation residents were delighted to have company and converse with each other over a delicious Easter meal and share precious time with each other and although it was cold outside, some still hid eggs and gave Easter baskets as gifts. All of the residents received lessons on how Snapchat worked and…
Knott County Health and Rehabilitation staff and residents donned Kentucky blue as they prepared to watch the Wildcats take on Kansas State in the Sweet 16 on Thursday night. Equipped with pom poms and the facility decorated with blue and white balloons, the crew joined residents in eating pizza and game day snacks to cheer…
Knott County HRC’s Karen Watts, the 2017 KAHCF Volunteer of the Year winner, was honored by the Kentucky River Development District and given the 2018 Elder Abuse Nursing Home Volunteer Award. Watts’ mother, Nadinne Waddell, accepted the award on her behalf and took a photo with Miss Kentucky to commemorate the achievement since Watts could…
Love was in the air and in the vocal cords as the staff at Knott County HRC delivered singing Valentines. Popular classics included “You are my sunshine” and “Teddy Bear.” Staff and residents also helped decorate the facility for the special occasion. Red and pink-colored decorations were everywhere, and staff and residents were almost outnumbered…
Rain and sleet and snow don’t make the job easy, but our Maintenance Director does whatever it takes to help the staff and residents at Knott County Health and Rehab Center! With National Maintenance Day celebrated annually on Jan. 18, Knott County HRC’s staff had a beautiful sheet cake with balloons made for their head…