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Westmount celebrates team members with week of fun events
Care Providers Week included a special event each day, with the highlight being 'Managers Pie in the Face Day'
6/6/2025
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Deron Hamel
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Westmount Gardens administrator Scott Mumberson gets ready to take a pie in the face during Care Providers Week.
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Westmount Gardens was filled with fun, laughter, music and a whole lot of whipped cream when residents and team members celebrated Care Providers Week in May.
Every year across Canada since 1965, National Nursing Week is held the week of nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale's birthday on May 12. The week celebrates and acknowledges the contributions nurses make to Canada's health-care system. Westmount Gardens organizes a week of activities every year to mark the occasion, but the London, Ont. long-term care community calls it Care Providers Week because all team members are celebrated.
As with every Care Providers Week, a different event was held each day to celebrate the team, but life enrichment manager Adnan Resh says nothing topped the spectacle of that Thursday's “Managers Pie in the Face Day.”
“It did not fail to please,” Adnan tells S&R Today. “It was the highlight of the week.”
The Thursday main event drew a large staff turnout and saw several managers – including administrator Scott Mumberson, manager of resident care Carrie Morton and assistant manager of resident care Merly Matthew – take whipped-cream pies to the face with good humour.
“Scott started us off strong,” Adnan says, adding several residents watched from balconies and windows, and many came out just to be part of the fun.
“The plan was for staff to throw pies from 10 feet away, but that quickly turned into a hands-on, pie-to-the-face delivery. It was all in good fun – (there was) cheering, laughter and high-fives all around.”
While Thursday's event stole the show, the rest of the week was packed with other activities to thank team members for their work:
- Monday kicked things off with coffee and snacks for all three staff shifts
- Tuesday brought Carnival Day, complete with classic fair treats like corn dogs, churros, candy floss, popcorn and games, including basketball toss and giant Connect Four
- Wednesday featured a barbecue where team members were served burgers with all the fixings, potato chips and drinks. Retired resident nurses as well as nursing team members were given roses and a poem was read to them as a show of gratitude for their work
- Friday ended the week with sundaes and cake available to all shifts
“These events were about showing love and appreciation for our staff,” Adnan says. “Every day was filled with great conversations, joy and laughter. But Thursday? That was unforgettable.”
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