Care at home

Catholic Health is dedicated to providing quality health care where you need it. That includes your home.

“The benefit of Care at Home goes far beyond convenience. It’s also exceedingly effective, producing positive outcomes, often at an accelerated pace,” said Kim Kranz, RN, MS, CHPCA, president of Catholic Health Home Care and Good Shepherd Hospice.

Catholic Health’s Care at Home services span in-home nursing care, physical therapy, medical social work, nutritional counseling, pastoral care visits—even home health aides for short-term personal care needs. Between visits, Catholic Health uses advanced telehealth tools to monitor patients’ vital signs and make it easy for them to communicate at any time of the day or week. Home care patients get the full support of Catholic Health’s superb interdisciplinary team, all working collaboratively to deliver superior care and healing.

“Happily, America’s population is living longer than previously, but that longevity is multiplying the demand for quality health services,” said Ms. Kranz, “and most people, understandably, prefer to get care where they are most comfortable— their homes.” Beyond recovery and curative therapies, Catholic Health Care at Home also administers palliative care when doctors deem it beneficial. Different from end-of-life care, palliative quality-of-life care offers patients who have chronic or advanced conditions expert symptom management. “It also allows these patients to engage in life and participate in the activities they enjoy,” said Ms. Kranz. Catholic Health Home Care clinicians also handle hospice care, which is reserved for patients whose condition cannot be improved therapeutically; then, we provide physical, spiritual and emotional comfort.

Catholic Health’s Care at Home team works closely with the system’s physician providers, hospitals, rehabilitation facilities and diagnostic services. “We’re all part of the same team,”

Cycling to save lives

Join us for this year’s one-day Empire State Ride on July 22 to benefit clinical research and trials at Catholic Health Cancer Institute and Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. This charity bike ride rallies the community to celebrate life and spread hope. All routes start and finish in historic downtown Oyster Bay on Long Island’s storied North Shore. Ride through Long Island’s estate country, beaches and estuaries. Choose the 10-, 25or 62-mile route.

To register, please visit esrlongisland.com