Archive for February, 2010

With a history of more than 120 years, Sheltering Arms has many longtime supporters.  Two of its most generous and influential supporters, however, are Robert Watkins and deVeaux Riddick.  The two mainstays of Richmond theater were asked in 1957 to help Sheltering Arms create a new fundraiser.  The event they helped create, the Bal du [...]

The Valentine’s Day surprise for patients at Sheltering Arms’ Hanover County inpatient hospital was named a “Mech Moment” by the Mechanicsville Local this week!  For more details on the surprise, read this post.  A scan of the image in the Mechanicsville Local is below!

A Valentine’s Day Surprise at Sheltering Arms

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

Valentine’s Day may be two days away, but the celebration was well under way at Sheltering Arms’ inpatient hospital at Memorial Regional Medical Center today.  A former patient arranged for a quartet to perform for our current patients in honor of Valentine’s Day!  Some pictures are below.  Click the images to see larger versions.

The Mechanicsville Local, the weekly newspaper for the town of Mechanicsville, published a story this week about the new stroke rehabilitation accreditation for The Sheltering Arms Hospital.  The story is scanned and posted below.  Click it for a larger version!

(Richmond, Va.) – The Sheltering Arms Hospital has been given a rare honor that reinforces the high level of care its Inpatient Rehabilitation teams give to patients every day. The hospital received a ‘Disease-Specific Care Certification’ in Stroke Rehabilitation through The Joint Commission – with no requirements for improvement!
The certification and Gold Seal of ApprovalTM [...]