To celebrate National Nurses Week and National Nursing Home Week and to show appreciation for the heroic efforts of the Jewish Association on Aging’s staff who strive tirelessly to keep everyone safe a staff ‘Thank you’ parade was held at the JAA’s main campus off Browns Hill Road.
Auri Vearnon, of Greenfield, scheduling coordinator of the Jewish Association on Aging, adjusts her cape before watching a parade to thank the staff of the Jewish Association on Aging for keeping its residents and clients safe during the COVID-19 pandemic, Thursday, May 7, 2020, on the organization’s main campus in Squirrel Hill.Staff members watch a parade to thank the staff of the Jewish Association on Aging for keeping its residents and clients safe during the COVID-19 pandemic.Mary Anne Foley, chief operating officer of the Jewish Association on Aging, and Deborah Winn-Horvitz, the organization’s president and chief executive officer, hold a sign in the flatbed of a truck during a parade to thank the staff.Diane Robinson, right, an AHAVA Memory Care staff member, cheers as Diane Blessitt, left, of Penn Hills, and her sister Patty Blessitt, not pictured, of Braddock, whose mother is a resident of the facility, drive by holding signs during a parade to thank the staff.Judith Wasserman, a Charles Morris Nursing and Rehabilitation Center staff member, looks out of a window, while other staff members watch from the sidewalk, during parade to thank the staff of the Jewish Association on Aging for keeping its residents and clients safe during the COVID-19 pandemic.Helen Deasy, a nurse at the Charles Morris Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, holds balloons given to her by a parade participant during a parade to thank the staff of the Jewish Association on Aging for keeping its residents and clients safe during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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