One2One Home Care at The Lincoln Home helps individuals, regardless of age or disability, have the option of living independently at home. Offering assistance with daily tasks can help to promote independence and the ability to continue with a normal, daily routine, allowing an individual to remain living at home as long as possible. A private pay agency, One2One Home Care now accepts payment from clients who have Long Term Care Insurance policies.
Zhu Nu Jun has worked as a home care aide in New York City for eight years, working three 24-hour shifts a week. That increased to four 24-hour shifts a week last year. It can be brutal and intense work. “I’ve had enough of these long hours of very difficult work that have destroyed my body,” she said “My fingers are already deformed. I have a knee problem, my eyesight has worsened, my hair is falling out. I can’t even pick up a pen with my right arm due to all the work of carrying patients and this has happened to many workers I know. Only New York City has the 24-hour one shift.”
The plan to close The Commons at Tall Pines is devastating for our community. I am deeply saddened and very frustrated by this news. My heart goes out to the residents, their loved ones and the dedicated caregivers at the facility who serve them. The Commons at Tall Pines has a duty to work with residents, their family members and with the state’s Long-term Care Ombudsman to secure placements for all of the residents in facilities that can safely meet their needs.
The closing of the nursing home in Erskine Minnesota, affects multiple generations of one northwestern Minnesota family. With her mother living at Pioneer Memorial Care Center and her daughter working there, Edna Kaupang of Winger, Minnesota, has seen firsthand how both residents and staff have been affected by the news of the nursing home closing.
The owner of a Rio Grande Valley home health company has been ordered to prison for conspiracy to commit health care fraud, federal authorities announced. On April 14, 2016, 44-year-old Miguel Angel Contreras of McAllen, pleaded guilty to submitting false and fraudulent claims to Medicare for reimbursements of home health services that were not provided, that a physician had not authorized and/or were not medically necessary, according to a release from the United States Attorney’s Office. Contreras was an owner and administrator for Sambritt Home Health LLC, according to the release.