Home Town Care Executive Summary

Providence Home Care LLC is a home health care service institution that is located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. This home health care agency was established in 2002. Providence Home Care LLC offers home care and private duty services. Some of the home health services include wound care, hospital prevention protocol, skilled and psychiatric nursing, monitoring chronic illness, physical, occupational, and speech therapy, patient and caregiver education, and more. Providence Home Care LLC has been awarded for being a National Top 500 Agency. This home health care facility is also the winner of the Quality Excellence Award.

Your senior loved one is important and there are many different senior care services available. What do you do, how do you decide what service is best? In short, with all of the other choices in the market, why choose Comfort Keepers?

The Paradise Facility Home Care Inc. is a residential group home located in the historic town of Naples, Florida inside Collier County. The area celebrates heritage and the past with numerous events including the Historic Town Center. Naples is an ideal place to live and the various activities can be enjoyed by friends and family members when visiting.

Mr. Mendivil was referred to the STAR CAST on January 1, 2018, by SGPRC due to his noncompliance with treatment and medical appointments. He is diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and is prescribed insulin four times a day. Nursing staff from Care Unlimited Home Health come to the house every day to check his blood sugar, check his blood pressure, and administer insulin as ordered. However, Jesus is reported to often refuse to have blood sugar checked and to have insulin shots. This noncompliant behavior to treatment poses a high risk for complications from poorly controlled diabetes.

Many seniors live in areas where cold weather is a way of life, especially in winter. These are not the chilly breezes that come off the water in Florida, these are freezing temperatures that can cause severe hardships, loss of power and electricity, frozen pipes, and loss of services. In-home care personnel can help your senior loved ones prepare for the cold weather.

The reporting party (RP) stated her husband Vernon Ferguson DOB: 11/29/29 was sent to the emergency room due to a frozen shoulder on 3/29/16. The resident was released to return to the facility 3/30/16, however the facility refuse to allow the resident to return. The facility notified the family on 3/30/16 the resident was at the hospital and he would not be allowed back in the facility. The RP stated the resident was abandoned and forced to spend two nights in the emergency room prior to finding an alternative placement (Mountianview Care Home). The RP stated she paid the facility $6500 for the month of April and due to the facility eviction she is entitled to receive a refund. According to the RP the administrator stated the check went out

Thank you for meeting with me regarding the employment opportunities. I will like to inform you that as of yesterday I accepted a Full time position as a recruiter with Marquis Home Care. They are located at 230 North Main Street Spring Valley NY 10977 and their phone number is 845-363-8140. Should you need further information, please feel free to contact me by phone or email.

Current pending policy in the 114th United States’ Congress includes the Home Health Care Planning Improvement Act (ANA). This legislation advocates changing the current Medicare conditions of participation, by granting authority to Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) to certify plans of care for home health patients. If written into law, Advanced Practice Registered Nurses that would be able to certify home health services would include nurse practitioners, certified nurse mid-wives and clinical nurse leaders. In addition, this designation would also give physician assistants access to the same authority (ANA).

Home care is one role that a nutritionist is a big part of within the health setting. The article, “The Nutritionist in Organized Home Care”, provides the process of the main attributes a nutritionist offers in a home care venue. The authors, Kaufman and Bryan go through the different aspects of the benefits that come with a home care nutritionist and the organization that is provided. The article provides information covering all aspects of the profession including the services offered, an actually case of home care, the nutritional needs and the task of the nutritionist. All of the topics give an insight of just one part of work that is completed by a nutritionist.

This begins with educating staff on Lean principles and methodology. Once staff understands Lean thinking, principles and methods, the managers and leaders can become facilitators, teachers, and mentors while allowing professionals, non-professionals, and health care teams to make improvements in safety and quality (Aij & Lohman, 2016). Implementing Lean in Optum’s transplant services department resulted in the elimination of aspects of the telephonic outreach process that didn’t contribute to high quality health care.

Baillieston Care Home is in North Lanarkshire they are committed to enhancing the lives of everyone who lives there. Residents and relatives are encouraged to take part in the care planning process and in evaluating its delivery. They have lounges and quiet areas on both floors, with separate dining rooms and a patio.

Succinctly summarize the author’s argument and how the social issue/problem is defined by the author; In this op-ed the authors argue the impact families in caring for their elderly verses the governmental influents that are imposed “families, not Government agencies, provide most services and care for the elderly. For every institutionalized senior citizen, there are at least two equally disabled elderly people receiving care at home.(Smyer&Plantz)” It is in the author’s opinion that elderly citizens should be given that choice to decide on where they want to spend the remainder of their years, the author also stress that most elderly prefer to remain in the care of someone they trust; such as family, close friends, neighbors, or

A dynamic evidence-based, data-driven process tool, it is capable of capturing the numerous variables that impact and compose patient care. This approach to safe staffing would drastically improve the working environment, enhance nurse performance and reduce turnover rates, thus reducing staffing costs. Most importantly, however, adequate levels of registered nurse staffing would ensure attentive patient care by offering the chance to implement the best safety procedures available. A PCS plays a crucial role in establishing an effective staffing system as it also has the ability to create and monitor objective nurse-patient assignments (Malloch 356). This method of assessing acuity on every shift will grant health care organizations the ability to act immediately to prevent the under-staffing of registered nurses. “Specificity about patient care needs in a valid and reliable PCS is essential on our pathway to improved resource utilization, improved decision making, integration of nurse cognitive and knowledge work, and management of variances from planned resource use” (Malloch

Banner Home Care comprises of 10 services: Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy, Clinical Dietician, Infusion Therapy, Social Work, Home Medical Equipment, Telehealth Services, Home Health, and Community Care Coordination.

Healthcare providers strive to improve service quality by implementing various quality management programs. Customers tend to seek for higher quality of care when choosing treatments, providers, and health plans. For healthcare organizations that desire to provide high quality care and compete in the global market, choosing a quality management program to implement is critical for performance and efficiency. Many studies have been conducted to analyze the effectiveness of such programs. Lean, Six Sigma and Total Quality Management (TQM) are three programs that will reviewed by three different case studies in efforts to understand them and to compare and contrast their capabilities.