PORT JERVIS, NY – (September 25) On Sunday, September 25, staff and residents of St. Joseph's Place, a long-term care facility at Bon Secours Community Hospital in Port Jervis, NY, won first place in the fifth annual scarecrow contest at the Port Jervis, NY, annual Fall Foliage Festival.
The Port Jervis Tourism Board sponsors the Festival and features vendors, live music, the Roaming Railroad for children, a petting zoo, and more. The scarecrow contest is billed as the highlight of the popular event.
The creative St. Joseph's Place entry was The Tin Man, a character from the 1939 award winning motion picture, The Wizard of Oz. It was the fourth time in five years that the people at St. Joseph's had submitted a handcrafted scarecrow for the contest. And in that short period they have won first place twice along with second and third place in the other two years.
The idea," reported St. Joseph's Place Recreation Director Kelly Fedrizzi, "was the brainstorm of Activity Aides Stacie Denalla and Jess Mailet along with the residents of St Joseph's. This event is a favorite among the staff, and residents every year. Everyone worked very hard on this project, and it was an incredible accomplishment of creativity, and skill."
Residents and staff spent two weeks building The Tin Man out of tin cans and metal roof flashing. It will now be on display for six weeks, along with other scarecrow entries, at Skinner's Park on East Main Street across from Bon Secours Community Hospital.
St. Joseph's Place long-term care at Bon Secours Community Hospital is a 46-bed skilled nursing facility that provides professional care in an interdisciplinary approach to meeting the medical, personal, spiritual and social needs of each of its residents.
Residents are encouraged to participate in a wide array of activities including gardening, games, music, arts and crafts, education, and fitness programs. They also enjoy group day trips and outings to local restaurants. In addition, many local groups and organizations regularly visit St. Joseph's Place and help to keep residents involved and in touch with their community.
St. Joseph's Place is located on the first floor of Bon Secours Community Hospital, 160 E. Main St., providing residents with easy, ready access to the hospital's medical facilities and staff.
In addition to quality long term care services, St. Joseph's Place also offers long term and short term rehabilitation, tracheotomy care, head trauma care, respiratory care, and psychological services in a comfortable setting that residents can call "home."
About Bon Secours Community Hospital, a Member of the Westchester Medical Center Health Network
For nearly a century, Bon Secours Community Hospital in Port Jervis, New York, has served the residents of Western Orange County, New York, Pike County, Pennsylvania, and Northern Sussex County, New Jersey, as the area's premier healthcare provider. The hospital serves its community with 122 beds for acute care and medical-surgical services, a 24-hour emergency department, long-term care and rehabilitation, a dedicated bariatric surgery unit, behavioral health, and outpatient services. For more information about Bon Secours Community Hospital and the services provided, visit
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About Westchester Medical Center Health Network
The Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth) is a 1,500-bed healthcare system headquartered in Valhalla, NY, spanning seven hospitals and several campuses and locations in the Hudson Valley. WMCHealth employs more than 10,000 people, with nearly 3,000 attending physicians. From Level 1 and Level 2 Trauma Centers, the region's only acute care children's hospital, an academic medical center, several community hospitals and numerous health-related centers, programs and services, today WMCHealth is the leading and pre-eminent provider of integrated health in the Hudson Valley. For more information about WMCHealth, visit
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*Residents and staff spent two weeks building The Tin Man out of tin cans and metal roof flashing.
Clockwise from left, Joan Sauschuck, Tim Lempka, CNA; Community Representative Jim McCooey, Emily Wehner, Simone Dellacorde and Activity Aide Stacie Denalla.