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November 12, 2009

Hospice marking Home Care Month

November is National Home Care Month.

With that in mind, employees of Woodward Regional Home Health and Hospice are celebrating the month along with the National Association for Home Care and Hospice.

According to Kris-Ann Moyer, a licensed clinical social worker with Woodward Regional Home Health and Hospice, nothing special is planned other than to make the community more aware of services.

“It’s just such a wonderful program,” Moyer said of home health care. “Studies show that in-home care patients have a faster recovery rate ... when they get into the home environment with the medical care they need.”

Home health care is designed for patients who are getting better, she said.

Under the program, home health care professionals offer nursing, counseling, dietary and personal care, as well as help with physical, occupational, respiratory and speech therapies, she said. The service also provides patients with medical equipment and home medical supplies.

Home care services are paid for by public and private sources or directly by patients and their families, and most insurance companies have home health care benefits, including Medicare and state-run Medicaid, Moyer said.

a registered nurse.

“Despite massive cutbacks in government funding, home care continues to be the preferred means of receiving quality health care services for millions of Americans,” said registered nurse Cathy Poe, who is also the director of Woodward Regional Home Health and Hospice.

The Woodward program has been in the community for 25 to 30 years, Moyer said.

For more information about Woodward Regional Home Health and Hospice, Moyer, or Poe can be reached at (580) 254-9275.

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