Thanks: Bee Hive cared when others didn’t
Published in the Coeur d’Alene Press: September 12, 2007
Our mother, Patricia Darty, passed away Aug. 13 in her room at Bee Hive Homes in Coeur d’Alene. She had suffered from Parkinson’s disease, pain from spinal arthritis and other assorted ailments for approximately nine years. During that time she had resided at several assisted living facilities in the area. While some of these facilities did their best to care for Mom, all of them eventually asked us to find another place for her to stay as their staff was not up to the task. Our last stop was Bee Hive on Sherman Avenue. We feared if this didn’t work, a nursing home was the next and last option.
After talking with the staff and touring the facility, we thought, “this is too good to be true.” Well, the other shoe never dropped. At Bee Hive Homes, the employees take their title of care giver very seriously – it is a verb to them, not a noun at the top of a job description.
Our mother was not treated like a number or an income stream as she had been at her previous stop. Instead, she was shown honor for her intellect, treated with dignity for being the lady that she was and cherished like a family member. During Mom’s last days, we as a family spent many hours at Bee Hive as we prepared for her departure to heaven. Throughout that time the staff provided us with food, comfort and condolences. And all the while their attention to Mom and the other residents at the home never wavered.
On Aug. 17, the administrators of Bee Hive allowed us to hold our mother’s memorial service there in the great room of Courtyard 2 where she had spent the last months of her life. That was her home and the people there were her friends and extended family. To owners Gary and Linda, nurses Karen and Katherine, care givers Michaela, Cary, Heather, Jeanie, Misty, Carlie, Kay, Jared, Ryan, Chris and so many others, on behalf of her children and in the memory of Patricia Darty, we give you a heart-felt “Thank you”.
TERRI WHITE, LARRY DARTY DEBI CAPITO, RON DARTY
Post Falls
