People Worth Caring About - Nebraska

Peter Murphy Lewis spends the day with nursing home resident Myrna. He meets Mary Jo, a certified nursing assistant, who does restorative therapy with Myrna, leading her through range-of-motion and speech exercises.

One of the pioneers of this facility, Barb, shows Peter a few examples, including hosting a "pre-prom" with high school students at the facility and implementing a "grandma-on-a-stick" program for families.

Peter meets administrator Cassie who expresses the importance of their facility engaging with the community, especially students.

Peter joins medication aides Jace and Bailey at a home-like end-of-life care facility. Jace explains the facility as "one big family, one big home, celebrating the end of life."

Peter spends the morning serving breakfast with culinary associate Joy, who goes above and beyond to get residents exactly what they want for meals.

Peter meets assistant wellness director Gabriela as she helps get resident Jimmy ready for the day and take care of his bird Perky. He also visits resident Guadalupe who has a special relationship with Gabriela.

Peter joins medication aide Chris to see what the front line caregivers do to get 60 residents up and ready in the morning. Chris wakes up resident Mark and gets him ready for the day.