Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, is the most important traditional festival and a public holiday in China. The Chinese New Year 2012 starts in January 22 (Chinese New Year' Eve) and marks the year of dragon. The festival falls on the first day of the first Chinese month (usually in late January and early February), and ends with Lantern Festival which is on the 15th day.

This year, the Adult Day Care Health Center at Rutland Nursing Home will be celebrate this momentous occasion on Monday, February 6^th, with a mini-lantern festival, including traditional performers from The Chinese Performing Group of Brooklyn. The event will take place at 3:30 pm in the Adult Day Care Program Room, DMRI Building 103 at 585 Schenectady Avenue between Winthrop Street and Rutland Road. Rutland's Adult day health care center is located on the campus of Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center.

"We are incredibly excited to celebrate the Year of the Dragon with our Chinese Day Care participants, because of cultural significance and to celebrate the diversity of our community," states Lowell Fein, Vice President of Long Term Care at Kingsbrook/Administrator of Rutland Nursing Home, "it is incredibly important to weave cultural sensitivity into our day care programs as our goal is to be a home away from home for those who need our care."

Rutland's Adult Day Health Care Program provides niche program services for Russian, Chinese, Caribbean and Hispanic registrants. Rutland Nursing Home offers an array of services: skilled nursing, sub-acute rehabilitation, comprehensive wound care, certified ventilator dependent care, long–term skilled nursing pediatric care and dialysis.

The program, which has been servicing the community for over 21 years, offers its registrants many of the same services and programs that are part of the hospital, including: Nursing Services, Social Work, Nutrition, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy, Recreation Therapy, on-site Laboratory Testing, Radiology Services, medical evaluations, mental health and dental services to name but a few.

"Our program coordinates care for all types of patients, with a variety of health care needs," says Sharon Wang, Director of Adult Day Health Care. "We have the benefit of having an outstanding continuum of care to help deal with our patients multiple health care needs. These services are accessible to our patient's right here on our campus including dental, wound healing & hyperbaric and rehabilitation services to name a few."

The Adult Day Care Chinese festival will include a Chinese dinner and information on upcoming special events. The center provides a full calendar of entertainment in February that can be viewed on line at www.kingsbrook.org. Call 718-604-5400 for more information.

Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center, celebrating its 86^th year, is a teaching Medical Center, dedicated to meeting the health needs of one of Brooklyn's most culturally diverse communities. Kingsbrook continues to implement programs and services that respond to the vital health needs and concerns of the community at large. Centers of Excellence Include: Physical & Rehabilitative Medicine, including Brooklyn's only New York State approved Traumatic Brain Injury & Coma Recovery Unit, an inpatient Geriatric Psychiatry Program, a Wound Healing & Hyperbaric Center, Pharmacy, Radiology and Orthopedic Surgery. Other specialty areas include: Emergency Services, Ambulatory Surgery and a Certified Non-Invasive Vascular Laboratory, as well as a 538-bed Adult and Pediatric long term care facility. Kingsbrook and Rutland Nursing Home are JCAHO certified and not-for-profit members of the Greater New York Hospital Association and the Healthcare Association of New York State.