Home care

hospital care, skilled nursing facility care, nursing home care, hospice and home health services. Part B covers 2 types of services Medically necessary services, and preventive services. Part C is the part of Medicare policy that enables private health insurance companies to provide Medicare benefits, yet it is not a separate benefit. The last part, Part D is the prescription drug plan.…

How do you know if tackling a home improvement project is right for you? How do you know if you have the skills that will be needed to accomplish the task ahead of you? How do you choose the right home improvement project? There is no simple answer to the questions above. Most of the time, choosing a home improvement project is based on need. What needs to be done around your house? Once you have determined what needs to be done, ask yourself if you feel capable, and comfortable doing the task…

Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) located in New Braunfels, Texas. EdenHill began as a charitable home for older adults in 1910, and by the 1980’s EdenHill evolved to include a large skilled nursing unit, a rehabilitation center, assisted living apartments, and cottages for independent living (2016). Today, EdenHill Communities has a large campus with a number of buildings for independent living, and one large building with separate areas for assisted living, skilled nursing, memory…

Webster, 2015) Volunteering at Mountain Care Facility has provided me with a real world perspective into how communication can be expressed through many modalities. Learning and making real- life connections goes way beyond just sitting in a classroom discussing and studying it, learning really happens when you see communication occurring and fully experiencing it first hand. Communication is something we as a society take for granted, and spending time at Mountain Care has shown me the…

Option 1- Quality Assurance Nursing home patients deserve the best quality service possible. How this quality is maintained is where Continuous Quality Assurance (CQA) comes into play. CQA sets the standard for an organization and seeks to maintain that level of quality. It is ongoing and uses past experiences as well as future variables to identify how the facility is doing in order to locate where a facility has the potential to or has already failed to maintain standards (Centers for…

2013). The topic or purpose of the article concerns the correlation between the nursing staff at nursing homes and the quality of life patients acquire by living there. The author of the article investigates the relationship and gathers information to locate results that can provide intervention and improve the quality of life for nursing home patients. The author stated, “As health care providers, it is necessary to determine all potential and culturally sensitive aspects and determine…

the need of a new assisted living facility will to meet the demands within the community. Enlisting the use of planners will help in deciding how to best meet the community’s overall needs for assisted living as well as providing around the clock care for those citizens needing additional services. After analyzing the need for such services the plans, confirm the success of a new assisted living facility. The cost of the development is estimated at $4 million dollars that include purchasing…

nicotine on the walls. So Harriette called the health department and the police because they were abusing the grandma by having her living in unacceptable conditions. Also, most elders are abused in nursing homes, there was a report in Maine, where a grandfather who was sexually abused in a nursing home in 2006. The grandfather said that it was a man and he would not describe what he did to him. Since the abuser was over 18 he paid the…

but also has lowered the chemicals used throughout the process, which again is an environmental savings as well. The same savings has been placed in laundry with changing of products that are more earth and environmental friendly. In the Kidney Care center, they have found a way to recirculate the water used for dialysis. Research was used in noting that the water being flushed from the processors was purer than the going into the unit to start with. This has enabled them to reuse the…

government has invested billions of dollars into heath care every year. The Medicare program has led to better health care, but has also created the need for constant re-examination and revision. This is due to the continuous changes in health care and the increasing population of older Americans. Despite the on-going changes in health and medicine, the goal of Medicare has stayed the same--to ensure that aging adults have access to the medical care they need. As part of the Medicare…