As workers at Genesis HealthCare Center left for the weekend Friday, six women sat at a table in the dining hall, wished them well and continued stringing beads and teasing each other.

The women are members of Crafters that Care, a group that crafts for charities, and they say working on projects like the pink-beaded bracelets they were making for the center's breast cancer awareness event this past Sunday is a relaxing way to end the day.

Crafting has been one of the activities at the Brooklyn Park center for at least as long as the nine years Activities Director Vicki Love-Davis has worked there. In February, they...