Walking to End Alzheimers

 

 

Lifecare Innovations’ staff members joined a large, enthusiastic group to help in the fight against Alzheimer’s on Sunday, September 18, 2011.  The event featured a 5K walk along the lakefront, made all the more fun by a blended group consisting of several business organizations.  Our group was pulled together by our friends at Peck Bloom and we are grateful for all their efforts in bringing this wonderful opportunity together.

 

Vital Signs of Growth: Lifecare Home Solutions Adds Home Nursing to Its Service Offerings

 

Lifecare Home Solutions, already well known for high-caliber and well-trainednon-medical caregivers, now adds a new tool to its menu for those who wish to remainin their homes.  Pending receipt of our license from the State of Illinois, Lifecare Home Solutions will make available specialty services from skilled visiting nurses, including:

 

• Medication Set up and Management
• Diabetic Management
• Hospice Medication Administration
• Wound Care Management
• Colostomy and Catheter Maintenance

 

The addition of these services broadens the options of those whose care needs are increasing but whose desire to remain at home is as strong as ever.  Home Nursing services compliment the efforts of family and non-medical caregivers as they come on an as-needed, hourly basis to set up medication for the week, check and re-dress wounds, assess new symptoms and otherwise bring their expertise to the home setting.

 

Lifecare Home Solutions’ private nursing services can also lend days and weeks of reassurance to clients as they contend with new medical issues after a hospital stay and after the Medicare-funded nurse has stopped coming.  Whether in a home in the community or an independent /assisted living environment, private nurses can continue to monitor new or ongoing wounds, guide and instruct on the management of new colostomy bags or new diabetes requirements, and assist with other medical complexities as they are introduced to our loved ones.

 

The same high quality and professionalism associated with the Lifecare brand will distinguish this vital new program.  Please call 630-953-2154 to learn more about how a Lifecare Home Solutions nurse can bring comfort and confidence home to your clients or family members.

Lifecare Innovations Now Offers Continuing Education Units for Nurses

Lifecare Innovations was approved by the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation to offer CEU hours to Nurses. This rounds our CEU offerings to Social Workers and Nursing Home Administrators and will expand upon our ability to bring new educational opportunities to professional and lay audiences alike. Please call today to schedule a CEU presentation for your group or facility. Please follow this link to the lecture series.

Lifecare Innovations Partners with Dr. Neelum Aggarwal Bio

 

Dr. Neelum Aggarwal, MD, an Associate Professor in the Department of Neurological Sciences at Rush University MedicCenter in Chicago, will act as Medical Advisor for Lifecare Innovations, Inc. and Lifecare Home Solutions.

Dr. Aggarwal, is a cognitive neurologist with particular interest in all types of dementia ( Alzheimer’s disease, fronto temporal dementia, vascular dementia and Lewy body dementia). In addition to her active clinical practice, she continues to conduct original research in a variety of large scale community based studies. She is the Co-Investigator on multiple grants funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA). Since coming to Rush in 1996, she has performed over 1500 neurological evaluations in the homes of participants throughout the Chicago area.

Lifecare Innovations will consult Dr. Aggarwal on medical matters, particularly those pertaining to various forms of dementia, while she continues her thriving practice at Rush.

 

LCI Now Boasts Two National Master Guardians

Shay Jacobson and Lauren Sherman recently passed an arduous written test to become National Master Guardians.  There are only 60 individuals nationally who have succeeded in passing the National Master Guardian exam, and just four others live in the State of Illinois.

The test, administered in conjunction with the National Guardianship Association conference, spanned several hours and is administered only to those who fulfill a number of pre-requisites.  Master Guardian candidates must first become National Certified Guardians, have a graduate degree and at least three years of full-time professional guardianship experience, and have completed at least 30 hours of approved continuing education credit in the prior three-year period.

The test focused on expertise in the areas of decision making, courts and legal processes, professional business practices, the guardianship planning process, medical and complex issues, financial management and the limitations and termination of guardianship.

Shay Jacobson is President of Lifecare Innovations, and Lauren Sherman is Director of Guardianship.

Lifecare Innovations Earns Another Better Business Bureau Award

The Better Business Bureau has honored Lifecare Innovations with another A+ rating and reports that the company has garnered absolutely no complaints for 36 consecutive months.  Lifecare Innovations has been an accredited business with the Better Business Bureau since 2006.

The Better Business Bureau reports that their ratings reflect the bureau’s degree of confidence that a business is operating in a trustworthy manner.

The Better Business Bureau documented and investigated over 62 million complaints nationally in 2009 alone.

Lifecare Innovations received the prestigious Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics from the Better Business Bureau in 2008.