Approved Home Care recently sponsored an ice cream social with the professional staff at Medical Center of Plano, located 3901 West 15th Street, Plano, TX  75075.  You can reach the staff at Medical Center of Plano at (972)596-6800. Medical Center of Plano serves senior and elderly patients who live in Plano, Richardson, Dallas, Allen, Frisco, and McKinney. Medical Center of Plano offers a state of the art Brain and Spine Hospital, who is in the front of Neuroscience.  Medical Center of Plano has one of the largest Neuroscience units in the US, and the largest in Texas with 34 ICU beds for patients with complex neurological injuries that require 24 hour monitoring.  Approved Home Care and The Medical Center of Plano share an equal vision on quality patient attentiveness, while providing comfort and compassionate care, to optimize healing and promote healthy living.

Approved Home Care enjoyed being a sponsor of this delicious treat at The Medical Center of Plano on Thursday afternoon.  In attendance at this meeting were the Director of Case Management, Darla Sindt, along with 8 professional social workers and case managers combined.  Also, guests included were Erica Clifton and Melissa Brantley, both Hospital Liaisons with Healthsouth. Co-sponsors of the event included Carla Parish with Reliant Home Health of Allen, and Kim Ramirez with Stonemere Rehabilitation, of Frisco, TX.  All sponsors are specialized in senior and elderly care for senior patients recovering after a hospital stay.

It was a friendly meeting, with familiar faces, along with some new ones. We had light discussion about hospital readmission rates, but it was mostly a “get to know” each other and become familiar with each other’s products  and services during the meeting.  Approved Home Care receives senior patient referrals for Medial Center of Plano, and the referring social worker is very pleased with the Dutch chocolate and has said that she will continue to refer patients to Approved  Home Care.

We served Dutch chocolate, Vanilla and strawberry ice creams, with Heath Bar toffee bits, oversized M&M’s, peanut butter M&M’s,  marichino cherries, caramel, chocolate and strawberry toppings, along with A&W root beer and Coke for those opting for a float, which was a huge hit. The break from work and the treats were very well received.

In our discussions, we focused on Approved Home Care’s Stroke Awareness and rehabilitation recovery program.  Our experienced caregivers are CNA’s, or Nurse Aid’s, and can continue doing physical fitness exercises in the home that the Physical Therapist wants the elderly patient to do daily to help regain strength after a hospital or rehab stay.  Our caregivers are a big advantage with optimizing care since they help the senior and prevent falls in the home with our fall prevention training.  Our one-on-one care approach helps the elderly patient heal in the comforts of home at a faster rate than being at home with a family member alone.

If you have any questions about healing after a hospital or medical rehab stay, give us a call at (972) 658-4001.  We would love to discuss times of day you would like care, find out more about your medical concerns, and complete paperwork to have a quality licensed, insured, and bonded agency providing in home care for you.  We provide as little as a few hours of care a day to 24 hour, or live-in care.  Our caregivers are on our payroll, pass background and criminal checks, and have many years of senior and elderly care experience before we hire any caregiver.   Our caregivers can help with bathing, dressing, and grooming, housekeeping, meal preparation, laundry, making beds, medication assistance reminders, and taking to Dr. appointments, and picking up prescriptions.  By providing quality hands on care, we help you heal more rapidly at home and start enjoying life.

LHC Home Health

Approved Home Care enjoyed meeting with the professional LHC Group Home Health staff in the Carrell Clinic building at 9301 North Central Expressway, Suite 675 in Dallas, TX 75231. LHC Group is a division of Texas Health Home Care and is an award winning home health group serving the Dallas and North Texas area. LTC Group Home Health provides quality senior care in many cities including Dallas, TX, Highland Park, TX, University Park, TX, Richardson, TX, Addison, TX, Carrollton, TX, Farmers Branch, TX, and Plano, TX.

LHC Group Home Health offers in home senior care for the elderly suffering from chronic disease including Diabetes, COPD, high blood pressure, congestive heart failure, kidney disease, heart attack, stroke, or seniors recovering from a recent surgery. Many seniors are fearful of falling and have mobility challenges, and we also help with fall prevention with senior care, or elderly assistance for patients who are fall risks.

Both Gary Morgan, the Director of Business Development for Lifecare Hospitals Dallas, TX along with the staff of Approved Home Care of Dallas, TX and Plano, TX sponsored the lunch along with an informational in-service at the main Dallas office inside the Carrell Clinic in Dallas, TX in a professional building off Highway 75. We served a delicious Texas bar-b-q meal from Dickies for lunch which included chopped brisket sandwiches, loaded mashed potatoes and of course hot mac & cheese.

We met with most of the senior clinical staff and discussed the impact of reducing hospital readmissions by either direct admitting to a Long Term Care Acute facility such as Lifecare Hospitals of Dallas, and/or utilizing quality in home care services provided by Approved Home Care of Dallas and PlanoOur experienced caregivers, who are CNA’s or Nurse Aid’s help seniors on a daily basis with bathing, dressing, and grooming, medication reminders, Dr. visits, errands, laundry, errands such as grocery shopping, and incontinence care. Our caregivers specialize in caring for Dementia patients, Alzheimer’s care, Parkinson Care, and Stroke recovery patients.

The LHC Group Home Health staff was deeply impressed with how low Approved Home Care’s readmission rate was compared to other providers, much less that we tracked it, demonstrating the quality level of care Approved in Home Care provides and our caring approach to healing at home with our senior care program.

Approved Home Care is the preferred caregiver service provider of LHC Group Home Health Care for senior care and elderly home care in Dallas, Highland Park, University Park, Plano, Richardson, Carrollton, and Farmers Branch, TX. We serve elderly patients as little as a few hours a day to 24 hour care, and live in care as well. We are private pay and also set up and process long term care insurance as a long term care provider, if you have a long term care policy with in home care benefits such as Genworth Financial, John Hancock, MassMutual, CNA, Allianz, Transamerica, Penn Treaty, Mutual of Omaha, Prudential, Thrivent, to name a few long term care companies. If you have any questions about in home senior care, please call us at 972-658-4001 and we are happy to answer your questions and would love to come out and meet you in person.

LHC Group has offices offering Home Health, Hospice and LTAC services in 25 states. Anyone interested in contacting LHC Group for home health services should contact Monica Mott, hospital liaison and Sales Manager at (214) 717-9143.

 

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