Comfort Home Care

MARCH 29, 2022

Personal care : Help with activities of daily living (ADLs) such as bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, housekeeping, laundry, meal prep, and help with eating. Skilled care: As the disease progresses, many times patients need skilled nursing care to perform wound care, physical therapy, injections, and/or the administration of drugs.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

MARCH 16, 2023

Answer: Since maintenance services are considered skilled care, the patient must meet the setting-specific qualifying criteria outlined in the law, regulations, and Medicare Benefit Policy Manual. Question: What qualifies a patient for therapist-provided maintenance services under the Medicare benefit?

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

MARCH 14, 2024

Today, I would like for us all to consider not merely the importance of documenting daily skilled care but also the reason for referral and the need for initiating services in the first place. If you didn’t document it, it didn’t happen. How many times have we all heard those words?

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Hospice of the North Coast

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The only short term in-patient facility in North County San Diego, Pacifica House is a home for hospice patients who require a higher level of skilled care to manage pain and symptoms. I will be forever grateful. Patricia N. DONATE TODAY.

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Daily Nurse

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Home health nurses may also encounter patients receiving TPN and other complex situations necessitating expertise and highly skilled care. In home health, patients can come home with complex surgical wounds, including a wound vac, IV antibiotics, and other medications administered by a programmable IV pump.

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Daily Nurse

MAY 11, 2023

Nurses touch lives in schools, summer camps, occupational health, research, home health, hospice, public health, dialysis, urgent care, ambulatory surgery, case management, etc. The family caregivers of a patient dying of pancreatic cancer would not be able to have their loved one in the home without the attention of a hospice nurse.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

OCTOBER 18, 2021

From dialysis and med-surg to home health and the ICU, nurses create therapeutic relationships with patients and their families, providing spiritual and emotional comfort, compassion, and expert skilled care based on many decades of nursing science and evidence-based interventions.

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Comfort Home Care

APRIL 7, 2023

Consider joining a support group or seek professional help to manage the stress and emotional strain that come with caring for someone. In-home care can provide the respite care you need to recharge your batteries while providing excellent skilled care for your loved one.

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The Nurse Break

MARCH 20, 2023

With observation, compassionate and skilled care after a couple of interactions she calmed and we witnessed no ‘aggression’. Yes she was kicking and screaming (wouldn’t you?). The students and I selected to be her main nurses and do her dressing, which seemed to be the main time she was ‘aggressive’.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

MARCH 3, 2022

We also know that our skilled care, its impacts and the patients’ ability to maintain functional abilities extends well beyond the time during which direct care provision is provided. They feel supported. The rehab is never just about therapy alone.

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