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HCM Home Care
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Today’s Hill Country Memorial Home Care represents the best in community medical care: delivering the latest technological medical advances in a timehonored caring way.
“In a lot of ways, it looks like our original care delivery models, when a nurse or doctor walked into your home, took vital signs, then consulted to provide care,” said Katelyn Vinklarek, administrative director of Post-Acute Services for Hill Country Memorial Home Care. “HCM Home Care is very much going back to the basics of what community health care originally looked like.”
Today’s Home Care upgrades the house call with new services — delivered by skilled nurses, home health aides, therapists and social service professionals — that meet the needs of an array of patient conditions.
And new technological options such as TeleHealth allows on-site personnel to consult with remote professional providers to assess, diagnose and prescribe treatment virtually.
Expanded mission
HCM Home Care has expanded its mission to address the unique challenges of COVID-19: 1. Skilled care for “high need” patients.
Due to the current health situation, clinicians are going to homes of patients who would previously be on a floor of the hospital because of their condition.
The clinicians are able to conduct assessments just as they would at the hospital, and are doing it remotely to lower the risk of infection. 2. Connecting virtual technology.
For patients who are very sick, yet unable to go to a medical office or clinic due to social distancing, home health workers are delivering bedside care using TeleHealth options to connect to physicians. 3. Assisting families affected with COVID-19.
In situations where a caregiver or family member has tested positive for COVID-19, but does not require hospitalization, HCM Health Care can leverage TeleMedicine options to treat the patient while protecting the family.
“It is well-known that people are just more comfortable being at home,” Vinklarek said. “With Home Care, HCM is helping more patients do that, while we provide the best medical care available. That is something that hasn’t changed since the days of the house call.”
Reasons for HCM Home Care: support. medical condition.
This article was prepared by Hill Country Memorial.
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