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Life Care Center of Orange Park nurse wins photo contest award

For Clay Today
Posted 5/18/22

ORANGE PARK – Life Care Center of Orange Park nurse won the third-place award in Florida Health Care Association 2022 Long Term Care Photo Contest with her picture “Dancing Away the COVID …

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Life Care Center of Orange Park nurse wins photo contest award


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ORANGE PARK – Life Care Center of Orange Park nurse won the third-place award in Florida Health Care Association 2022 Long Term Care Photo Contest with her picture “Dancing Away the COVID Blues.”

Out of the contest finalists, this photo received the third-highest votes, 417, in public voting on Facebook.

The photo was taken by Robin Dake during a 1950s-themed celebration Dake planned as a part of last year’s National Skilled Nursing Care Week. For the event, staff and residents wore 1950s costumes with monogrammed sweaters, scarves in their hair, cat eyeglasses and poodle skirts, perfect for dancing to popular songs from that period.

Dake is the center’s activities director. Dake has been with Life Care Center of Orange Park for almost three years and has worked in the health care field for 22 years.

"It was a perfect moment,” Dake said. “Everyone was smiling, singing, clapping and dancing in their seats. Several staff members and residents were dancing together. It was one of those moments when your heart was just so full of love and happiness and so was theirs. I wanted to capture that special moment in time. This picture brings back those wonderful feelings and memories of that day."

For winning the contest, the center will receive $200 for an activity to be chosen by the residents and staff. Dake will be awarded $50 for taking the photo.

“Peak times during the COVID pandemic could be alarming for nursing center residents and staff, and events like this brightened everyone’s mood,” said Emmett Reed, CEO of the Florida Health Care Association. “The Life Care Center at Orange Park was able to put everyone’s minds at ease for a little while by having this safe celebration. This photo shows how much compassion the staff has for their residents and showcases what quality care is all about.”

The Long Term Care Photo Contest is open annually to submissions from those who are residents, employees or volunteers of an FHCA member care center or who work with an FHCA business partner. More than 100 photos were submitted from long-term care centers across Florida for the 2022 contest.

The grand prize was awarded to the Clifford Chester Sims State Veterans Nursing Home in Panama City, while the Palmetto Subacute Care Center in Miami finished second.