Home Health

Caregivers for home health services are also on the front lines.

Nurses and doctors across the country are clocking in for a long day's work to continue the fight against covid-19.

But those duties stretch further than the emergency room.

Caregivers for home health services are also on the front lines.

Our stephanie poole talked to workers at a local facility about how they're assisting patients during the pandemic donut- kindred at home provides personal health care to dozens of people across our viewing area.

Due to covid-19, nurses and caregivers are going the extra mile for patient safety and health.

" we provide health care in a patient's home after a surgery or hospitalization or a newly diagnosis disease like cancer or a new lead diagnosis disease like cancer heart failure or respiratory disease."

Kindred's jd hurt says quality health care is vital during this time of uncertainty.

That's why staff members are using a new protocol to provide an effective way for home check-ins.

"we do a full head to toe assessment and we try to keep the patient out of the hospital and other people who have the disease especially during this time right now.

If they are contagious or infectious.

We wear a mask whenever we enter the patient's home and we do a pre-screening on the home before we go into the home."

Although doctor visits are not recommended at this time for patients and nurses are stepping in to help whenever they can.

" having a nurse or a therapist come and check on them a couple times a week is a good thing and we can relay any information we see on that patient back to their primary care physician or specialist or their which is important so we can be the eyes and ears during this time when they may not be going in to see their doctor."

" it's good for us to coming in and letting them know that we care because our caregivers situation is changing.

Their caregivers aren't able to come visit when they were because some of them work in the hospital so they're having to stay away.

This facility will continue to use this protocol until there is no longer a threat.

Reporting in lowndes county, stephanie poole, wcbi news.

Hurt says family members and loved ones are still allowed to do in home visitation.