In Honor of Home Care and Hospice Workers

06Jun

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Every day, all across the country millions of home care aides, therapists, nurses and social workers make life better for people with chronic illnesses, the disabled and healthy, but frail elderly by assisting them with daily living activities.

Home health aides care for patients who are still living at home, helping to lift the burden from family caregivers. Nurses and therapists make regular visits to their housebound patients to check on their progress and, for those with life limiting illnesses, to provide palliative care.

They go about their work quietly, serving patients and families, providing companionship and comfort to those they serve.

For the work they do, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice asks all of us to recognize November as National Home Care & Hospice Month and November 8-14 as Home Care Aides week.

In honor of these special people, all of us at Green Key Resources say thank you to those who do so much to make life better for so many. We join with NAHC President William A. Dombi who says,

“Home care and hospice nurses, therapists, aides, and other providers choose to use their lives to serve our country’s aged, disabled, and dying. This noble work is deserves our recognition and praise and we celebrate November as home care and hospice month for that very reason.”

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Healthcare

Jun 6, 2023

In Recognition of Surgical Technologists

Healthcare

Jun 6, 2023

In Recognition of Surgical Technologists

When COVID-19 forced hospitals and surgical centers to halt elective procedures the surgical technologists who do the prep work and assist the surgeons shifted from the operating room to everywhere else they were needed.

In more normal times, surgical techs spend much of the workday on their feet. They prep operating rooms and lay out the equipment to be used. They are also the ones responsible for ensuring everything is sterile and stays that way during a surgery.

They keep track of the instruments, counting them and making sure none become contaminated. When the procedure is over, they may help dress incisions and prepare the patient to be moved to the recovery room.

When operating rooms went dark except for emergencies, technologists showed just how essential they are, jumping in to help care for the influx of coronavirus patients, expanding sterile areas to all public areas and providing relief to other, overworked healthcare professionals.

To honor them during National Surgical Technologists Week which began Sunday, the Association of Surgical Technologists asked its members to tell of the essential work they’ve been doing during this pandemic.

Here are two stories:

Surgical tech Colleen Lorenz said she and her fellow techs “participated in the Incident Command call center realigning staffing resources, helped screenings at hospital entrances and helped sew masks for the community.”
Kelsea Renninger, a labor and delivery surgical technologist, says pandemic or not, mothers were giving birth and she was there. “I have worked during the hardest hit times of COVID-19, most times working overtime throughout the week, and I won’t change it for the world.”

Green Key Resources is proud of the work surgical technologists do. We join with Americans everywhere to thank them for always being there.

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