Subiaco Health
Center
Focus on Life Enhancement and Longevity
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The Abbey
provides a bright, well equipped, and expertly staffed health center
to minister to the monastic community as needed. With the addition
of a wellness-fitness program for monks and Abbey personnel, the
Health Center offerings range from caring for the elderly monks to
providing a workout area many take the opportunity to tone up and
increase cardiovascular fitness. The workouts are under the
supervision of Mr. Jimmy Morris, personal trainer from Mercy Fitness
Center in Fort Smith, Arkansas.
The Abbey's commitment to carrying out
St. Benedict's admonition about caring for the sick can be seen in
many ways, e.g., the skilled staff who give TLC to the several
residents in the Health Center. |
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Mrs. Rose Schneider, R.N. supervises the staff of
full and part-time certified nurse's aides, providing round the clock
assistance for the various needs of the sick. With a high ratio of staff
to residents and overlapping shifts, physical and special needs of the
monks can be readily met.
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Monthly ongoing nursing skill
training for staff and periodic workshops with North Logan County
Health Unit keep the staff updated on the successful treatment plans
and advances in geriatric wellness programs. Monks who are not
full-time residents in the Health Center use some of the multiple
services the Health Center offers--making doctor's appointments and
driving to these appointments as needed, ordering prescription
medicines, providing first aid, assisting with daily bathing and
whirlpool treatments. In all these and many other services,
the injunction of St. Benedict to "Serve the sick as if serving
Christ" is carried out. |
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The design of
the Health Center not only provides private rooms with baths for the
resident monks, but areas for common use and social interaction. In one
common room, monks pray the rosary twice daily for the intentions
recommended to them and for the Abbey's friends and benefactors. At other
times, this area serves as a reading room where one can enjoy a cup of
coffee or juice while reading the newspapers. This area includes
television and DVD so the monks can view videos or programs of interest.
For those monks who are unable to eat in the abbey dining room with the
monastic community, meals are served in the Health
Center.
Visitors and alumni
are invited to tour the Health Center when at the Abbey.
