Avamere at Hillsboro News and Events

Avamere at Hillsboro Receives the AHCA Bronze Quality Award for 2011

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 PST

Avamere at Hillsboro is proud to announce that we are the recipient of the 2011 Bronze Quality Award from AHCA/NCAL. We would like to thank the staff for their hard work and commitment that made this award possible.

The AHCA/NCAL National Quality Award has been designed as a progressive three-step process to encourage the continuous learning and development of integrated quality systems to achieve performance excellence. Each progressive step requires a more detailed and comprehensive demonstration of quality integration and performance. The criteria for each step is based on the Baldrige National Quality Award Program’s core values and concepts.

Bronze—Commitment to Quality—Reviewed by independent examiners, applicants who receive the Bronze award are able to describe their mission, characteristics, and key challenges and to recognize the relationship of these factors to their ability to achieve performance improvement. The Bronze award recognizes that the provider has developed a foundation to begin a journey of continuous quality improvement, and does not necessarily correspond to any public measure of performance.

Avamere at Hillsboro resident artist work featured at Walters Center

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:00:00 PST

One artist just 10 days shy of her 99th birthday and a group of others who participated in Hillsboro Plein Air 2011 July 15 and 16 are featured during August at the Walters Cultural Arts Center. Read full article

Avamere at Hillsboro residents offer questions to President Obama

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:00:00 PST

Only a few Oregonians will have the opportunity to see The President during his visit to Intel today, and almost none of us will ever have the chance speak to him. We invited some residents of Avamere at Hillsboro, a senior living facility, and students at Aloha High School , to share questions and thoughts they would offer Mr. Obama. Here is the video, by Jamie Francis of Oregon Live, featuring their collective questions.

Avacats take on St. Helens in Wii Bowling Tournament

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:00:00 PST

The Avamere at Hillsboro "AvaCats" competed against the Avamere at St. Helens team in a Wii Bowling tournament on November 15, 2010. After a close race and a room full of cheerleaders, the Avamere at St. Helens team won the trophy while the Avacats took second place. Congratulations to the St. Helens building!

Next the Avacats take on Avamere at Hillsboro staff on December 14th at 1:00pm.

Come and cheer the Avacats on!

Avamere at Hillsboro Resident Celebrates 100 Years

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:00:00 PST

Irene will be 100 years old on November 5th, 2010!

She is spirited, positive and a hard-worker. She has lived in Walport, Yachats, Sherwood, Tualatin, Helvetia, Tigard, Vernonia, West Portland, Lake Grove, Aloha, Beaverton and Iowa. You name a town in the Portland Metropolitan area, and Irene has probably either lived there, worked there, or both! Currently Irene is a resident here in the senior assisted living apartments of Avamere at Hillsboro and has been since 2002

Irene was adopted by her grandparents when she was 3 weeks old. She speaks fondly of her adoptive parents and "thanks God that she was raised by them". She was married at 18, to a young farmer, George. They had three children together, Jim, Donald and Edward; and worked on farms ranging from 2 1/2 acres to 113 acres! Together they farmed everything from berries, potatoes, and hay to cows and hogs.

After being married almost 27 years, George died of cancer in May of 1955. She sold her house in Tigard and moved to West Portland where she worked at Portland Canning Co. and Libby’s Canning Co.

Donald, her second son married in 1956. She was introduced to her new daughter-in-law’s uncle (Ralph) and they got married in 1957; they were married for 14 years.

Irene has an in conquerable spirit: “Don’t let anything get you down. Work through it. It will pull you down if you let it. Don’t worry about things. Walk by faith, trust and obedience in the Lord.”