Join us for the Menno Place Butterfly Release on Friday, June 13 at 2:30pm, following our annual memorial service where we’ll be honouring those who have passed since June 2024. Click for details on how you can pre-purchase your butterfly!
Every year on Mother’s Day our campus is flooded with beautiful floral arrangements that bring joy to residents all over Menno Place. If you’re thinking about gifting flowers this year we wanted to remind you of a couple of guidelines.
Our 100 active volunteers have already contributed nearly 2,000 hours in 2025
This is your chance to say thank you to the visitation hosts before the program ends at the end of April.
Fraser Valley Fire Protection will be on our campus April 11 – 17 to conduct our annual fire equipment inspection as required by code. For residents in the apartments a technician will need to enter each apartment. The technician will be wearing a uniform shirt with the Fraser Valley Fire Protection logo on it. Residents do not need to do anything during the test and can stay in their apartment while the test takes place. The test is brief but it can be loud. Residents are asked to remain seated during the test and keep out of the way of the technician.
Please note these tests will cause the fire alarms to sound briefly. They may also cause the fire panels to beep. The bells will turn on and off quickly. In the event of an actual fire alarm the bells would sound and keep ringing.
Announcements will be made in each apartment building at lunch to remind the residents. Each day that the technicians are here they will begin around 8am and work their way through each building floor by floor. We are not able to predict when they will reach each room. For the apartments the testing usually lasts most of the day.
The schedule for 2025 is:
If you have any questions for Menno Home and Menno Hospital please contact Garry Janzen. For the apartments please contact Leonard Klassen.
National Caregiver’s Day recognizes the incredible commitment, hard work, and heart of these caregivers. We see it on our campus every day.
Staff are no longer required to wear a medical mask in resident care spaces and places where residents gather. Masking may be required on a case-by-case basis if deemed necessary on the basis of a point of care risk assessment, as per Menno Place’s infection prevention and control policy.
Visitors are welcome in all buildings on our campus. They are asked to refrain from visiting if they are sick. Visitors must still sanitize their hands for residents and staff safety.
Thank you all for your commitment to our residents and their safety.
Greetings to all Long-Term Care family caregivers and family council supporters!
Fraser Association of Family Councils (FAFC) is hosting its next Family Council Forum and you* are invited:
Date: Thursday April 17 2025
Time: 7-8 PM
Place: Virtually
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Meeting ID: 861 9554 5047
Passcode: 029337
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Meeting ID: 861 9554 5047
Passcode: 029337
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* This forum is for families of residents in long-term care who are engaged with their family council or seeking to start one.
Each care home will have a chance to participate – bring your success stories as a council alongside issues and challenges you are experiencing. Come to share and learn about family councils in the Fraser Health region.
The forum is hosted by Lisa Dawson, interim Chair of FAFC.
Volunteer with FAFC! Help us with our core work of forming and maintaining councils in the Fraser Health region.
We would like to extend a huge thank you to all Menno Home and Menno Hospital families who were able to attend our recent Family Council Information Session on March 20th, 2025. We appreciate the enthusiasm expressed and look forward to supporting the start-up of a family-led Family Council here. For those who were not able to attend the Information Session, we encourage you to kindly take a moment to review the PDF linked below and consider participating in the start-up of a new Menno Place Family Council.
Family Council Information Session PDF
At this point, we are asking for an expression of interest from family members and friends who may be able to lend a leadership hand in getting the new family-led Family Council up and running. This initial process of kick-starting the council will only take about 1-3 hours of your time over the next month.
If you are interested in supporting our Family Council in this capacity, please reply directly to either Kim or Dan at the email addresses below by April 30, 2025. Lisa Dawson, Interim Chair of Fraser Coastal Association of Family Councils, will then reach out to this group to provide support and guidance. The next step will be to have the pre-inaugural family group meet with Lisa virtually to confirm structure, governance and promotion of the new council.
The involvement of Menno Home and Hospital family members and friends is crucial as we move forward, and we are excited about the potential of this Family Council! Thank you once more for your attention to this initiative. We look forward to hearing from interested parties!
Kim Wiebe kim.wiebe@mennoplace.ca (604)851-1361
Dan Janzen dan.janzen@mennoplace.ca (604)851-1350
