Vanda Health

12/22/2025

Harvest Homes: Spreading Christmas joy one resident portrait at a time. ❤️

12/19/2025

Grease was the word AND the vibe at Vanda Health’s annual holiday party. McMenamins Edgefield was transformed into Rydell High for an electrifying night of fun, recognition, and celebration.

12/18/2025

Justin has been in the nursing field for 15 years with experiences ranging from post-acute care to long-term care. Over time, he has honed his abilities to become an exceptional nurse who strives to lead with compassion and deliver meaningful and empathetic care to residents, and yet, as a reflective lifelong learner, he acknowledges that he is still learning new things about his chosen profession every day.
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Justin moved to Oregon from New Jersey in June of 2024 and began his Oregon nursing career at another assisted living community where he was the only nurse and also the facility’s sole RCC. With little work life balance, Justin found himself unable to do the things he had moved to Oregon to do–including hiking, camping, and enjoying the outdoors.
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When Justin joined the Harvest Homes community in January of 2025, he was ecstatic to have an actual nursing team, as well as multiple RCCs and behavior specialists, working together for residents. Justin believes that the Harvest Homes work culture feels more like a family. Everyone is there for each other when someone needs support, and there is a strong sense of belonging and teamwork. The residents of Harvest Homes have truly stolen Justin’s heart, and he believes it is a privilege to be part of their lives. Each resident has their own unique story and hearing them inspires Justin to provide the best care and support possible. An added bonus? The Harvest Homes chickens. Justin looks forward to his chicken duty every Sunday. As he says, “What other nurses can say they also get to take care of chickens?”

12/12/2025

"The key to living a long life is to stay busy," says Arlene Wagner, the 101-year-old Leavenworth, WA woman, with the largest collection of nutcrackers in the U.S. Mrs. Wagner stays busy as owner of the Leavenworth Nutcracker Museum, which houses over 9,000 nutcrackers. This centenarian continues to work 4 hours a day in her museum and just started selling a nutcracker called “The Nutcracker Lady” modeled after herself.

Take a moment to read this delightful Feel Good Friday article!

Arlene Wagner has been collecting nutcrackers for nearly 50 years. Now, she's got one of the largest collections in the world, housed at the Leavenworth Nutcracker Museum in Washington.

12/11/2025

Nailed it! Harvest Homes resident Carolyn is spreading Christmas joy! ❤️

12/10/2025

Congratulations to our Fall/Winter 2025 Vanda Visionaries! Danielle, Araceli, Leticia, Eloisa, Julie, and Alexia lead with care, collaboration, agility, integrity, fun, growth, and excellence every day. We are grateful for all that they do for Vanda Health residents.

12/09/2025

The latest edition of the Vanda Vantage newsletter will be hitting your email inbox this morning. It’s chock full of information about community-based care in Oregon. We hope you will take a moment to read it.

We are proud to announce that three of Vanda Health’s managed communities have been awarded the Joint Commission's Gold Seal of Approval® for Assisted Living Accreditation. Harvest Homes in Portland, Elite Care Oatfield Estates in Milwaukie, and Adara Oaks Manor in Gresham are the first three ass...

12/08/2025

It’s cookie baking season! Elite Care at Oatfield Estates residents celebrated National Cookie Day by making and baking and decorating and eating some sugar cookies. What is your favorite holiday cookie?

12/05/2025

Two things on this Friday:
1) The Alzheimer's Association’s Memories in the Making program is wonderful.
2) Harvest Homes has some talented artists.

12/02/2025

It’s a Grow With Us Good News Tuesday! Congratulations are in order to Haley, Christine, Tabatha, Lorrie, and Vickie. After a tremendous amount of work and a significant commitment of time and energy, these five amazing women recently completed all of their classes and clinicals for their accelerated nursing school program.

The final step on their journey to becoming a Registered Nurse is to take the NCLEX exam. They are actively preparing for this test with the help and support of the Grow With Us Future Leaders Program Nursing Pathway.

We are SO VERY PROUD of Haley, Christine, Tabatha, Lorrie, and Vickie’s accomplishments and can’t wait to see where their nursing careers take them!