We Hired a CNA!

Today we went up to our building because we were having our TV Room furniture delivered and we had 4 Interviews lined up from all the Resumes we've collected.  By the end of the day, we decided on and hired our first part-time CNA! We're so excited! She's a sweet girl with a lot of compassion and enthusiasm and we believe she will be a real asset to our company and loved by our clients.

Sean, our contractor, is getting really close to being finished with his interior work.  The other day, they laid the concrete to extend the sidewalk out to the parking lot.  Today they were finishing up wiring and getting the Emergency Exit lights up.  They also finished with the wallboards and tomorrow Sean will be blowing the walls to texturize them and laying the handicap bathroom tile.

This weekend, we will be going up there to do some finishing and trim painting and whatever else needs to be done.  There are so many details!  For one, I will need to get backgound checks done, finish up the hiring paperwork on our CNA, order some shirts for her and we still need to go and buy an oven and a microwave, mirrors for the bathrooms and a million and one other little things.

As soon as we know we're finished, I'll have to contact the Fire Marshall again and the Adult Day Care Inspector to come out and do the final inspections.  I need to arrange another meeting with our Consultants and we'll need to try to determine an Opening date.  Then I'll need to alert the Chamber of Commerce.  They're going to come out and do a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony and take pictures and put a write-up in the local paper for us.

We're excited about doing business in a "small town", where all the people know and care about each other. Dunlap has a reputation of having a lot of very "good and caring people" and we're going to be proud to be a part of their community.

The picture of the birds at the top was taken at Alexian Village when we visited there.  I'm going to get a smaller cage and some small finches to put in the reception area of our Day Care for the clients to enjoy!

What a Day!

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What a day it has been!  This morning, hubby left me asleep and went on to Dunlap to meet the Security Company representative at our building to talk about all that needs to be done. Of course, it's going to be much more than we expected.  Then he went to take care of the water, electric and gas.

While he was gone, I got dressed and started working on paperwork and details here.  I just finished a little while ago and it's 11:26 p.m.!  It's been this way every day for the last couple of weeks now.  Today I worked on employee forms and files and took so many phone calls from applicants, I can't remember how many there were!  I had to get each resume from my Email and print it and then make a file for it so my daughter and I can go over all of them tomorrow.  Then I'll have to phone or Email each one and let them know when we would like to meet with them for a personal interview.  We have a few very hopeful sounding applications.  I wish we could hire them all!  Unfortunately, we can only hire one for the morning shift and maybe a part-time occasional employee to fill in when the other one can't be there.  We're very reluctant to hire too many employees right off the bat since we're not sure yet how many "clients" we'll have the first month or so.

It feels good to be "almost finished" with most of the work though!  I'm exhausted but feeling very good about all that I've been able to accomplish now! I couldn't have done it all without my husband's help though!  He's sacrificed his free time to help me out and then works late hours at night in the living room with his laptop!  What a blessing he's been!

I'll try to remember to take pictures again on Thursday when I go out there.  They're delivering our TV Room furniture on Thursday and we'll be doing at least 4 face-to-face interviews for a CNA. 

We joined the Chamber of Commerce the other day though and they're going to link our website to theirs!  When we open, they'll send out a photographer to take pictures and write up an article for the paper and they'll do a Ribbon Cutting ceremony for us!  I feel like a celebrity!

Take care Friends!  More to come later!

Busy Day!

Even though it was a gorgeous day today, I spent the day in front of my computer working on printing more brochures out.  My daughter called and said that we had an appointment to speak to the Senior's Group in Dunlap tomorrow and then after that, she has lined up an appointment/interview with a possible CNA for us to hire.  So after that phone call, I also printed up a bunch of flyers that can be posted in businesses there and doctor's offices.  Then I worked on setting up this Blogger page and worked on a Newsletter, that is about half finished.

The problem with all of this is that, until we get our inspections from the Fire Marshall, we're stymied.  There's not a lot more we can do until we get the full OK from the State of Tennessee.  The other problem is that we have to be in Chicago next week, and that's probably when the Fire Marshall will come! Our daughter will have to handle it along with our Consultants and our Contractor friend.

More tomorrow after we have our meetings!  Hope you'll follow our progress!