Radius Scoops Excellence Award
Two Radius Residential Care rest home facilities have scooped ‘Excellence in Food Safety’ awards at the 2009 Food Safety Awards held in Hamilton yesterday.
Radius Maeroa Lodge and Radius St Joans Care Centre were selected from more than 750 food operators to receive the awards that recognize a standard of excellence in management and maintenance of a registered food premises.
The Hamilton City Council Food Safety Awards is an annual event and acknowledges recipients who maintain a standard of excellence in their food premises above the standard required by legislation.
A total of 75 excellence and 60 merit awards were presented to food operators such as takeaway and delicatessens, restaurants, dairies and supermarkets at a ceremony held at the Claudelands events centre.
“Radius are delighted to win the food safety excellence award again. This is the third time that our aged care facilities have won this award and it’s great!” says Steven Heesen, Radius Residential Care Operations Manager.
“We take food safety, presentation and preparation very seriously and our kitchen team is vigilant about food preparation within the rest home and it’s great that this is recognised by way of the awards”.
Food operators are assessed randomly throughout the year by Council food inspectors and evaluated in accordance with their food handling practices, cleanliness, staff training and sanitized work environment.
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For further information or images please contact:
Steven Heesen
Operations Manager - Radius Residential Care
Cell 021 585 974
steven.heesen@radiushealth.co.nz
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Radius Residential Care extends contract with Vodafone
Fixed line and broadband added to mobile phone contract
Radius Residential Care, part of the Radius Health Group, has extended its contract with Vodafone from a mobile-only service to include both fixed line voice and broadband connections.
Radius Residential Care is the third largest aged care provider in New Zealand with 22 rest homes scattered around New Zealand and communication between each facility and head office in Auckland is vital, says chief executive Brien Cree.
“When reviewing our telecommunications Vodafone stood out from the rest by offering us flexibility and a tailored package that suited our business operation best” says Cree.
“Most of our calling is between head office and the residential facilities so Vodafone built a package around that calling profile to suit our business.”
Cree says Radius Residential Care has around 60 to 70 mobile users already with Vodafone and the company will add both land line and broadband services as well.
“That’s probably another 140 lines. From there we’ll look at our hosting and online services next year with a view to moving those over to Vodafone as well.”
Cree says Vodafone’s team was open to a conversation about how Radius works, instead of trying to shoe-horn the company into a “one size fits all” standard model.
“Offering us discounted international calling, for instance, wouldn’t be a big draw card because we make so few calls overseas.”
“We weighed up all the options and alternate suppliers did offer us discount calls across the entire group. But their complex calling structure, rebates and rates didn’t appeal as much as getting a better price up front from Vodafone.”
Radius Residential Care forms a major part of the Radius Health Group along with Radius Pharmacy and Radius Medical.
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For further information contact:
Brien Cree
Chief Executive
Radius Residential Care Ltd
Ph (09) 353 20280
Cell 021 955 769
brien.cree@radiushealth.co.nz
Paul Brislen
External Communications Manager
Vodafone New Zealand
Mob 021 721 337
Email paul.brislen@vodafone.com
INsight Newspaper
Oct/Nov issue Vol 4 issue #1
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106 year old man celebrates International Day of Older Persons
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Dudley Sainsbury has something to celebrate: today is International Day of Older Persons and at the ripe old age of 106 he believes this is his time to party.
Dudley intends celebrating this landmark day and his remarkable old age with a special cake and the company of fellow resident friends at Radius Lexham Park rest home in Katikati. He might also have a whiskey or a beer but won’t decide which until the time – when you’re 106 there’s no rush he says.
Born on 15th June 1903 Dudley is the oldest rest home resident at Radius Lexham Park and quite possibly the oldest person in New Zealand says the national office of Births, Deaths & Marriages.
Dudley’s not sure what the secret to long life is but suspects his sweet tooth may have had something to do with it. He has regularly enjoyed a big dollop of plain old clover honey in his cup of tea for as long as he can remember.
“We used to buy bucket loads of the stuff from a local bee keeper and my father would have a big spoonful of it in his cuppa every day”, says his daughter Jean who regularly visits her dad at the Radius rest home where he has been well cared for over the past six years.
“Dad also loved his regular whiskey in the evening and a smoke on his pipe, as well as devouring kippers by the plateful. But he never ate junk food”, attests his daughter Jean.
Dudley also kept physically fit by walking hills on the family farm and mentally by playing chess.
An Englishman, Dudley was born in London and has survived two World Wars and more than a century of global events. He immigrated to New Zealand in 1956 with his wife Martney and one of his three daughters to go dairy farming in Apata, south of Katikati.
Youngest daughter Jean remembers her father living a quiet humble life on the farm and enjoying his evening whiskey or beer.
And with Thursday being International Day of Older Persons, Dudley’s plans are the same as they have been for the last century – an intent to have a quiet drink with friends to celebrate.
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For further information or images please contact:
Julie Turnbull
Facility Manager, Radius Lexham Park Home
Ph (07) 549 1015
Cell 021 393270
julie.turnbull@radiushealth.co.nz