Tabitha Receives Award from RSVP
Tabitha Meals on Wheels was honored with the first Retired & Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) Living Bell Award.
Tabitha Receives Professional Award from COAHP
Tabitha Health Care Services is pleased to announce that Johna Meints, Assistant Director of Tabitha Volunteers, received the "Professional Award" from the Coalition for Older Adult Health Promotion (COAHP). The Professional Award recognizes positive contributions to older adult health promotion in Lincoln and Lancaster County.
"The people I come into contact with on a daily basis are reward enough, but it was an honor to receive this award from an organization that does so much for older adults," said Meints of this honor.
Meints attended the annual meeting and breakfast on October 21 and received the award for facilitating connections between the 1,888 dedicated volunteers and those Tabitha serves in 29 southeast Nebraska counties. She trains Hospice volunteers and provides comfort to volunteers upon the death of a beloved client. Meints works to eliminate loneliness, helplessness and boredom among Elders at Tabitha and to enhance their well being.
Helper Gets Helping Hand
In March, a key ring was found in Lincoln by a young man who took the keys to his grandfather. The blue key ring had an imprint that read "Tabitha Volunteers Light up Lives." The grandfather looked up the Tabitha phone number in the phone book, called and asked for the Volunteer Department. He explained the story about how his grandson found the keys and described the number written on the back of the key ring. "Could that be a Volunteer's number?" he asked. The young man who found the keys added, "Can we find out who the keys belong to?" Using Tabitha's Volunteer database, the key ring number was traced to a Tabitha Volunteer. The Volunteer had indeed lost a set of keys and immediately called the grandfather to make arrangements to pick up the lost key ring.
The grandfather and grandson were the Good Samaritans that Tuesday afternoon and the Tabitha helper received a helping hand in return.
