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What Does Reopening Mean for Home Health Care?
Safely delivering home health care during the COVID-19 pandemic has required caregivers to rethink nearly every element of their work, from the patient intake process to a caregiver’s day-to-day commute. Fortunately, caregivers, clients and administrative staff have worked together through these difficult times to create new policies and procedures that…
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In-Home Exercises for Seniors
Even before the closure of gyms across the country due to Covid-19, the CDC determined that more than one in four Americans over 50 were “physically inactive.” Now, after more than two months of self-quarantine, finding ways to maintain muscle mass, flexibility and balance at home are more important than…
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Finding Personal Protective Equipment – Challenges and Successes
SelectCare staff saw their first glimpse of the challenges ahead on January 31st in the form of a seemingly innocent email. The agency’s regular supplier of N95 and isolation masks was already experiencing stock shortages and the shipment would be delayed by two weeks. The news was inconvenient, but the…
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Delivering Home Health Care During Covid 19
The past few weeks mark one of the most humbling, challenging, but also inspiring periods in SelectCare’s history as a home health care agency. The COVID-19 pandemic appears practically tailor-made to throw a wrench in the normal operations of a home health care company: the virus is most dangerous to…
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Update: COVID-19 Bulletin – March 28, 2020
Dear Clients, SelectCare continues to monitor all city, state and federal communications and policies regarding the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. As of Friday, March 27, 2020, the MTA is operating their Essential Service Plan system wide which preserves both AM and PM peak service for essential workers while helping to reduce…
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To Our SelectCare Clients & Their Family Members
On Thursday, March 19, SelectCare clients and family members received this letter by email from Kelly Takemura, RN Director of Nursing. We share this with you to keep you informed of our continued communication with our home care staff and our clients. Dear Clients and Client Family Members, SelectCare continues…
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