Skilled nursing facility in Redding throws social distancing parade

Communities are coming together, putting on parades for schools and people celebrating their birthday and now for our citizens

Coming together - putting on parades for schools and people celebrating their birthday!

And seniors in redding got a chance to have their own social distancing parade.

Action news now reporter ana torrea is live in redding where she saw the parade take place today, and ana what was that like?

I can tell you it was all smile and cheers.

And definitely a good surprise for the elderly people who have been indoors for over a month.

45 days.

Take so* trt:06 carrie nunn activities assistant at quartz hill post acute being stuck inside for all of us.

It changes up the routine these guys are used to going on their outings.

That's how long the senior citizens at quartz hill post acute have been inside.

Take so* trt:05 carrie nunn activities assistant at quartz hill post acute they kind of do live in a different world than we do, they dont get to come outside and see things like we do.

And to lift their spirits up... (((nat of fire truck))) a small fleet from the redding fire department drove by the facility.

And gave the staff and elderly their own personal parade.

With the message"quartz hill post acute strong" hanging off their engine.

Take so* trt:07 carrie nunn activities assistant at quartz hill post acute we're hoping that this will help get them through until social distancing is lifted as much as possible and we can get them out into the community again.

Ana stand u* trt: 11 ana torrea @atorreanews and to make sure that the senior citizens stayed safe, while at the same time enjoying the parade the facility put these blue ex's on the ground to make sure the elderly kept their social distance take so* trt: 10 carrie nunn activities assistant at quartz hill post acute we thought this would be a great opportunity to get them outside and kind of see that things are pretty normal and give them something to look forward to instead of just sitting in their rooms because with all the unknown that coronavirus pandemic brings... take so* trt:14 carrie nunn activities assistant at quartz hill post acute to try and keep things as normal for them as possible.

With normalcy and still having a good attitude because everybody is stressed and that's just the way that is but we want to just want to keep things as normal as possible for them.

The staff at quartz hill post acute hopes that this parade shined a little bit of light in uncertainty situation.

Quartz hill post acute also has a community reach program.

Where people can send cards or letters-- and what they call "angels" -- to the elderly three times a week.

Reporting live in redding, ana torrea, action news now coverage you can count on.

' quartz hill post acute' says: it got this idea after they saw another nursing facility out on the east coast throw a parade for their clients.

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