Contact: Jennifer
Kurczek
Community Relations Director
(920)361-5481
or jkurczek@partnershealth.org
For immediate release
“Help at Home… just a phone call
away” with CHN Home Care supportive services
(Berlin)—Living
at home independently can be a daily challenge for persons in their golden
years, with a disability or recovering from an injury or illness.
But
“Help at Home” is just a phone call away through the Community Health Network
(CHN) Home Care’s renamed in-home supportive services program. Through this
program, which was formerly called Senior Care, CHN home care attendants help
their clients live independently in their homes by helping with tasks such as
meal preparation, menu planning, shopping errands, cleaning and companionship.
“Our
new identity better reflects the non-medical, supportive services we provide to
our clients,” said Donna Fuller, BSN, CHN Home Care Administrator. “Through
this ‘Help at Home’ program, our goal is to partner with our clients and their
families to ensure their utmost safety and well-being as they strive to remain
in the comfort of their own homes.”
Routine
daily tasks, such as making lunch and washing dishes may beyond the reach of someone
homebound following surgery or serious illness. For others, taking the garbage
out each week, grocery shopping, doing laundry or running errands can be
physically exhausting. That’s why it’s important that clients have a care
management plan tailored to his specific needs, Fuller said.
“We
understand and appreciate that everyone has unique needs and that no two
clients are alike,” she said. “As we begin working with a “Help at Home”
client, the home care attendant completes an individual assessment and develops
a personalized plan of care based on the client’s needs.”
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Phyllis
Laper of Ripon knows firsthand how valuable extra help in the home can be.
Following back surgery this past fall, she and her husband, Florian, called
upon CHN Home Care’s Help at Home services while she recovered.
“The
‘Help at Home’ workers were very pleasant. We had several different workers yet
there was a familiarity with each one who helped us,” she said. “We are very
fortunate to have such a service available to us.”
Because
“Help at Home” services are not medical in nature, a physician referral is not
necessary to obtain services. In fact, family members may arrange “Help at
Home” services to help their loved ones in their absence.
“As
our population ages, many sandwich generation people are taking care of their
parents while raising their own families,” Fuller said. “But in order to
maintain a balance in life, those caregivers need to take breaks from their
obligations time to time. Respite care can be of tremendous benefit to both
caregivers themselves, as well as to those they’re caring for.”
Beyond
supportive services, if a client should need medical services in the home, he
or she can continue under the care of familiar providers. CHN Home Care offers
skilled nursing and physical, occupational and speech therapy services working
in conjunction with a client’s primary care physician. In addition, the
Lifeline program features the latest technology for emergency response by
outfitting clients with alert units that also function as speakerphones and
reminder systems.
“Our
goal is simple: to help remain in their own homes without the worry of who is
going to help when it’s needed most,” Fuller said. “We also encourage family
members who may live out of the area to arrange services for their loved ones
to provide them with peace of mind that’s so important to quality of life.”
A
member of Community Health Network, CHN Home Care is recognized by the Joint
Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations for its excellence in
care, and was recently cited as one of
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