Last week, we were delighted to learn that US News & World Report had named MPTF’s skilled nursing home as top facility in our area, with an overall rating of five stars, citing Nurse Staffing levels and Quality of Care in particular. The US News recognition is a strong validation of the terrific efforts...
Part of the brilliant legacy of MPTF is our 40-acre residential campus in Woodland Hills, since the early 1940s an historical treasure overflowing with Hollywood mystique and creative people whose contributions to film and television have made the entertainment industry what it is today. At any given time, you never know who you’ll find...
The short story writer Flannery O’Connor had an anecdote about “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” one of her truly great works. She went to a class at Wesleyan and one of the young teachers there started asking questions. “Miss O’Connor,” he said, “why was the Misfit’s hat black?” She answered that most...
On any given day, I will wake up, get dressed and head down to the kitchen for a good breakfast (it is the most important meal of the day.) Since I was a child, I was trained to take my vitamins like a good boy and told that it would make me grow healthy...
No one said it would be easy. And no one told me really hard work could feel so good. This past Saturday, 60 volunteers from all walks of the industry responded to a call for action from Derek Krull, MPTF Constituent Development manager, to join in a home safety and renovation project in Burbank...
My 7 year old daughter likes to think she can manipulate me. Maybe she can. So when it came time for the flu shot, she put on her most adorable face, and said in the saddest voice, “I don’t want to get a flu shot.” Being the sympathetic father, I gave her a hug,...