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Rancho Santa Fe, CA (PRWEB) July 28, 2011

Firstat Nursing Services, a 14 year old home nursing agency and home health provider in San Diego, CA recently released a home care guide ? ?Critical Questions You Must Ask Before You Hire a Home Care Provider,? to help families understand the importance of hiring State Licensed Nurses for Medical In-Home Care.

According to Linnea Goodrich, the company?s president, ?Selecting the right company and then the best caregiver to take care of a loved one is a big decision.? We created this guide to help San Diego families understand what to look for and the options that are available to them.?

According to a report prepared by John Hill from the California Senate Office of Oversight and Outcomes, the home care industry is growing fast, driven by the desire of many aging Californians to remain in their own homes rather than moving into assisted living or other types of long-term care facilities.

Businesses and individuals have stepped forward to meet this need, offering help with activities of daily living short of medical care. Many elderly or disabled clients and their families seek to hire caregivers directly, sidestepping agencies in favor of lower rates. Caregivers try to connect with those potential employers by placing ads in newspapers, Internet services such as Craigslist, or magazines targeting seniors. The report confirms that the current landscape is creating risk for consumers that could be alleviated by legislation.

?When I started Firstat Nursing Services over 14 years ago, I was determined to provide home nursing caregivers that had the experience and credentials to provide a higher level of care for patients in the home or on-site at assisted living facilities,? said Linnea Goodrich, owner of Firstat Nursing Services. ?Because of that commitment, our CNA, LVN and RN staff members are not only certified but experienced, bonded and trained. In addition, they are employees of Firstat,? continued Goodrich.

To help families understand their in home nursing care options, Goodrich outlined the three levels of care described in the guide.

C.N.A. is a Certified Nursing Assistant who has successfully completed a State Certified Nursing Assistant program. They are licensed to perform vital sign monitoring, medication reminders, ambulating, personal hygiene, feeding, dressing, and physical transfer; in addition to other activities of daily living.

L.V.N. is a Licensed Vocational Nurse with a current valid state license. They have the technical knowledge to perform nursing duties and patient care. They provide prescribed medical treatments such as injections, wound care, catheter care, set up and administer medication in addition to personal care.

R.N. is a Registered Nurse with a current valid state license. They perform frequent patient evaluations which include monitoring, performing procedures, administering IV medications, assessments and implementing the nursing care plan provided by the physician

Firstat Nursing Services has been helping seniors and injured people in the San Diego area since 1997. Families wanting to learn more about their home nursing option are encouraged to visit the company website blog at http://HomeNursingRanchoSantaFe.com

About Firstat Nursing Services

Firstat Nursing Services is the only Homecare Agency in San Diego that is both State licensed and certified by the Alzheimer’s Association. In addition, they have an A+ rating from the BBB. Firstat Nursing Services has been providing a higher standard of home nursing, home health and homecare for elderly, disabled and injured people in the greater San Diego area since 1997. To learn more, call 619-220-7600 or go to http://firstatofsandiego.com/

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Walnut Creek, CA (PRWEB) May 11, 2011

Professional Healthcare at Home, a leading provider of home nursing, rehabilitation therapy, hospice care, and personal home care services in Northern California, has opened an additional, Medicare-approved office in San Rafael to provide care to families in Marin County. ?There is a growing need for home health and home care services in the Bay Area and throughout the nation,? explains John Griscavage, CEO. ?We are pleased to offer the highest quality care to more families in the region.?

As a full service home health agency, the company assists those who are recovering from illness or injury, or having age-related memory or mobility difficulties. ?As a Medicare-certified agency, our clinicians can provide physician-prescribed nursing and therapy care in a patient?s home setting, which is often more comfortable than visits to a medical office or facility,? continues Griscavage. ?Medicare patients are sometimes unaware that they can request a home health care prescription from their doctors. Our company can provide insurance information and advice on skilled home care, hospice care, and non-medical services.? Non-medical caregiver services are often needed when seniors are having challenges with activities of daily living, but prefer to remain in their own homes as long as possible. While Medicare does not generally cover this type of care, certain insurances and veterans? benefits provide some coverage.

About Professional Healthcare at Home

Professional HealthCare at Home is a full service agency offering medical, hospice, and non-medical home care to families throughout the greater San Francisco Bay Area. It is part of the Professional Healthcare family of companies that include Victorian Home Care in Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties of Calif., and Haven HealthCare and Southern Utah Home Care & Hospice in Utah. Southern Nevada Home Care & Hospice and Virgin Valley Home Care & Hospice serve southern Nevada, and Granite Mountain Home Care & Hospice serves Prescott and central Arizona. Services include nursing care, physical and occupational therapy, post-hospital rehabilitation, wound care, home health aides, medical social workers, medication management, senior care, and hospice care. Home caregivers and personal care assistants provide help with activities of daily living, transportation, and companionship. More information is available at http://www.professionalhc.com, and http://www.professionalhealthcarellc.com. Eldercare topics are shared and discussed at http://www.facebook.com/professionalhc.

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(Vocus/PRWEB) March 01, 2011

The Nursing Home Complaint Center says, “We are calling March,National Nursing Home Abuse, and Neglect Awareness Month, for all US nursing home patients, and their loved ones. Just as an example of the problem, we believe needless sepsis infections, bed sores, septic shock, broken bones, wrongful death, and elder abuse in our nation’s nursing homes are at, or beyond epidemic levels, and we want to hear from family members who have proof the sick, or deceased family member was mistreated, or not treated at all-with the result being a wrongful death, or they are now in a ICU at a nearby hospital.” They say, “One of the biggest problems we see in the vast majority of our nation’s nursing homes is staffing levels, are not high enough to meet Medicare, or Medicaid standards, with the result being dead patients, or patients suffering from sepsis, bed sores, or septic shock, or broken bones.” The group says, “We desperately need family members, or loved ones to keep journals, or logs related to each time, and date they last saw their family member in a US nursing home, and their condition at that time.” If a family member of a nursing home patient has specific information about severe neglect, or abuse involving a nursing home, and their loved one, please call the Nursing Home Complaint Center immediately at 866-714-6466, or contact the group via its web site at http://NursingHomeComplaintCenter.Com

The Nursing Home Complaint Center is also urging nursing home staff members to step forward if they have proof of intentional short staffing, patient neglect, concealing what really happened to someone’s mom, or dad, in the instance of a severe infection, a broken bone, or even a wrongful death. The group says, “many nursing home employees see it, but are too afraid to say something about it. Please call us, if you know of intentional nursing home abuse, neglect, or wrongful death.” They say, “we also want to hear from nursing home employees who have significant proof of Medicare, or Medicaid fraud. If you can prove intentional short staffing, needless Medicare cognitive, ambulatory, or speech tests, there can be huge rewards for this type of information-provided its provable.” Nursing home patient family members, and or nursing home employees are encouraged to call the Nursing Home Complaint Center with any serious concerns, or proof of wrong doing, patient abuse, or patient neglect anytime at 866-714-6466, or they can contact the group via its web site at http://NursingHomeComplaintCenter.Com

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