November is National Home Care Month; Ask for local home health service
National Home Care Month ... November is National Home Care Month. The Veterans Memorial Hospital’s Community and Home Care RNs and trained home care aides travel the entire Allamakee County area and beyond helping their patients to remain living independently in their own homes. Referrals for their services can be made by family members, physicians, neighbors, friends, and other health care facilities. Patients can also request Community & Home Care themselves when being discharged from another health care facility. Pictured above, at left, is Lee Koehring of Waukon with Home Care RN, Juli Viet, at right, who cares for him. Submitted photo.
The month of November is National Home Care Month. Veterans Memorial Hospital Community and Home Care (Allamakee County Public Health) travels the entire Allamakee County area and beyond offering adults the assistance they need to remain living in their homes, as long as possible.
Registered nurses and trained home care aides offer a variety of services including nursing visits, medication set-up and administration, dressing cares, IVs, catheter and colostomy cares, overseeing rehabilitation in-home programs and assistance with personal cares. RN staff is on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Lee Koehring of Waukon has been utilizing these home care services for two years. His sister, Sandra Koehring, states, “Lee’s nurse, Juli, is awesome. We are so fortunate to have this home care service coming in to oversee things because we are not there all the time. She checks his blood pressure, does his nursing care, sets up medications and just keeps an eye on things. She has caught a lot of things and without her care, we would not have known. She is compassionate, understanding, listens and truly cares about him. They get along so well. Our community is so fortunate to have this service.”
Whenever being discharged home from another health care facility, the patient can request that Veterans Memorial Hospital Community and Home Care provide their home health services. Anyone is eligible. Referrals can be made by family, physicians, neighbors, friends, and other health care facilities.
Veterans Memorial Hospital Community and Home Care is Medicare certified and a member of the Iowa Association for Home Care. They are located on the upper level of Veterans Memorial Hospital. Office hours are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. For more information on these services, call 563-568-5660.
