Speech, occupational, and physical therapy are the health services that should be a part of integrated patient care at a skilled nursing facility. However, should your therapy staff be home-grown or provided by a competent, well-rated contract entity? Let’s talk about how to find the best therapy services to staff nursing homes. Therapy Services Should Be Patient-centered Optimal
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Home Health Agencies: Giving You The Right Support
If you or a loved one has undergone major surgery, are recovering from an auto accident or have recently been diagnosed with a life-limiting illness, the right at-home health care support is so important. How can you get the right medical and nursing services, therapies, and social services you need to have the best quality of life?
Read MoreGraduate Nurse Fellowship Program
Today, new nursing graduates face challenges that many of us never considered when we started our careers. The ongoing COVID pandemic, staff shortages, supply shortages, long hours, senior nursing staff leaving the inpatient settings, burnout – the list is endless of what healthcare professionals are up against. The prospect of starting a career in home
Read MoreDepression Screening
According to the National Institute on Aging, depression is a common problem among older adults. Detection and screening are the first steps in treating depression. Depression can affect every aspect of your life, leading to personal challenges or severe complications. Effective screening and identification of depressive symptoms is the first step in determining possible treatment
Read MoreMaintaining the Promise of Quality Care
Promise Hospice is officially part of the Advantage family… It’s so hard to believe that a company I started at my kitchen table has become part of this amazing team. I started Promise in 2010 with a simple mission… “to care for our patients as if they were our mother, our father, our sister, our
Read MorePaws-itive Changes!
Residents and employees at Vincentian de Marillac are finally starting to see a light at the end of the tunnel after navigating through these difficult times during the pandemic. One of the most exciting things for our residents is the return of pet visitors! Residents are now permitted to have two visitors and an additional
Read MoreMore Than Therapists
Written by the team at The Village at Penn State Here at The Village at Penn State, before the pandemic, we had families, friends, volunteers, interns and many more people that were here for our residents on a daily basis. Mostly just spending time with them, pampering them, singing, and laughing with them. When our
Read MoreMy Advantage Story…
My Advantage Story… My name is LaVonne and not only am I a proud employee of Advantage Home Health Services, but this year I was also a patient! I was recovering from foot surgery that took place on October 7th, 2020. I also had knee issues that have been occurring for nearly a year. I
Read MoreThe Therapy Gym
Author: Mon Valley Care Center Therapy Team What is the “Therapy Gym?” It is full of mat tables, parallel bars, weights, bands, an upper arm bike, walkers, canes, hot packs, an e-stim, an OT kitchen and many other types of equipment to be utilized in the rehabilitation of our skilled nursing patients. It is the
Read MoreComing Together, Working Together, Succeeding Together
“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.” – Henry Ford. Pre-pandemic, we did a lot of activities with our residents that we can’t do right now. We would cook, have multiple residents in the gym, do home assessments, community outings, and have some of the best team building
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