ALL HOMECARING’S APPROACH TO COVID-19
All HomeCaring Clinicians:
• Are trained in infection control practices following up-to-date CDC guidelines
• Screen all patients prior to provision of care as well as self-screen daily for COVID-19
• Utilize best practices along with ongoing quality improvement
The benefits of All HomeCaring during COVID-19
• Patients and family members may be reluctant to be admitted to a nursing facility due to increased proximity to COVID-19 positive patients and risk of infection
• Agencies like All HomeCaring keep hospital & TCU beds available for more critical patients
• Home Care professionals are well-versed in infection control
• In-home COVID-19 testing; education on infection control
• Nurses collaborate with providers while in the patient’s home to adjust treatment plans; this minimizes office or ER visits
• Facilitation of and education on telehealth
• Easier assessment of social determinants: Isolation/loneliness; home cleanliness and safety; exercise/activity
• All HomeCaring offers a follow-up option for patients who would benefit from physical, occupational or speech therapy in the comfort of their own home
Home Health During COVID-19
Your loved ones may be high risk for or even have COVID-19. All HomeCaring can safely care for them without ever leaving the home. This allows for:
• Coordinated, personalized care at home
• Minimal exposure risk from group or public settings
• Reduction of fear for patient and family members
Home care clinicians collaborate with providers to:
• Establish plan of care with appropriate goals, interventions, and visit frequencies
• Monitor, teach, and assess patients
• Provide simple to complex interventions and procedures
• Facilitate telehealth implementation
• Reduce ER visits and rehospitalizations
Home care clinicians can provide:
• Complex cares include but not limited to: IVs, feeding tubes, oxygen therapy, catheters, ostomies, venipunctures, central line management, wounds
• Skilled interventions
– Disease assessment and monitoring
– Rehabilitation therapy (physical, occupational, speech)
– Medication education and management
• Home safety assessments
• Patient and caregiver education
– Infection control practices
– Visitation limitations
• Coordination of services
– Medical supplies and Durable Medical Equipment
– Home Health Aide
– Non-medical assistance
– Medical Social Services
• Emergency preparedness
– Infection/pandemic
– Natural disaster
– Loss of power or other resources
FOR ALL HOMECARING EMPLOYEES
We want to remind all HomeCaring Employees that you cannot go to work if you have any Covid-19, cold or flu symptoms.
** You must call the office to report if you have any Covid-19, cold or flu symptoms such as:
- Shortness of breath
- Fever
- Cough (dry or wet)
- Body or muscle aches
- Chills
- Diarrhea
- Vomiting
- Sore throat
- Runny nose
** Do not go to work if you have been exposed by someone who has tested Positive to Covid-19 and:
- Call the office right away to notify that you have been exposed.
- Please get a Covid-19 test and quarantine until you have received your test results.
** If your client shows any signs or symptoms of Covid-19, cold or flu like symptoms, please call the office immediately.
** If you have tested Positive for Covid-19 or Employees that had Covid-19 related symptoms may discontinue isolation once approved by Human Resources, as they will follow the guidelines from the Minnesota Department of Health.
