February 13, 2023
Kaylee Dix is the daughter of Cypress at Home Clinical Manager of Home Health April McCarthy, RN. She has received a Cypress Cove scholarship twice and is currently enrolled at Santa Fe College in Gainesville, Florida. She plans to major in biological science and minor in business finance with the goal of becoming a pediatric […]
January 24, 2023
200 scholarships have been awarded since 2018 FORT MYERS, Fla. (January 24, 2023) Cypress Cove’s scholarship committee has awarded a total of $36,000 in Spring 2023 educational scholarships to 18 employees and employee dependents of its South Fort Myers luxury life plan community. The recent scholar selections mark 200 total scholarships awarded since the program’s […]
August 19, 2022
Patricia works full time as a household assistant in The Cottage at Cypress Cove, our beautiful memory care assisted living neighborhood. In her native Colombia she graduated with a focus on occupational health. Afterward she moved to the U.S. with her two children. “One of my lifelong goals since being in America is to obtain […]
July 11, 2022
FORT MYERS, Fla. (July 11, 2022) Cypress Cove’s scholarship committee has awarded a total of $44,000 in Fall 2022 educational scholarships to 22 employees and dependents of its South Fort Myers life plan community. The recent scholar selections mark 182 total scholarships awarded since the program’s inception in 2018. Each scholarship is $2,000. “Cypress Cove’s […]
June 17, 2022
Kim Scott honored for excellence and workforce development FORT MYERS, Fla. (June 13, 2022) Cypress Cove’s Director of Nursing Kim Scott, RN received two outstanding recognitions at the beginning of June, one a state-wide award for excellence in nursing administration and the other a local recognition for healthcare career development. On June 3, 2022, she […]
June 3, 2022
Congratulations to Kim Scott, Cypress Cove’s Director of Nursing, recipient of the Florida Health Care Association’s (FHCA) Nurse Administrator of the Year Award! She was honored at FHCA’s annual Excellence in Long Term Care Nursing Awards program during conference at The Don CeSar Hotel in St. Pete Beach on June 3, 2022. Let us introduce […]
February 7, 2022
Kim is the manager over assisted living at Cypress Cove. She is utilizing the Cypress Cove scholarship and tuition assistance programs to help offset the cost of pursuing a master’s degree in healthcare administration through Rasmussen University. Her son Kamani is also a Cypress Cove scholar, studying sports management at West Virginia Wesleyan College, where […]
February 3, 2022
While we would love for all our scholarship recipients to work at Cypress Cove forever, we understand that their career goals may take them away from senior living. We recently caught up with Travis Whiddon, geotechnical engineer at Universal Engineering Sciences, to see how he is doing. Travis worked at Cypress Cove full time as […]
January 26, 2022
What started as a part-time job in dining services as a teenager 10 years ago for Tily Sayeh has led to a rewarding career in health care administration. Tily, now a licensed nursing home administrator (LNHA), recently completed the rigorous administrator-in-training program through the Florida Board of Nursing Home Administrators and upon completion became Cypress […]