Welcome to the Communities of Care blog. Since 1999, we have been providing home care nurses for medically complex children and adults who live in the Minneapolis/St Paul metro area. Many of our clients need home care nursing for conditions like ventilator dependence, tracheotomies, seizure disorders, respiratory disorders, genetic syndromes, heart conditions, neurological conditions, and...
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Our Core Values: High Ethical Standards and Honest Accounting
One of the core values of Communities of Care is High Ethical Standards, and a crucial way we express this value is by ensuring honest and accurate billing and accounting.
Medical fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA) is a rampant problem in the home healthcare industry. This presentation outlines how some nursing agencies will...
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Our Values: Customized and Collaborative Care
One of our core values is customizing each client's care to their unique needs. Different clients require different medication records, charting, and care plans. Tailoring our documentation to each client makes it easier for nurses to efficiently report and track a client's health, establishing their baseline and reporting any anomalies or concerns.
We find that the best...
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Meet-and-Greet: How We Set a New Industry Standard
This week, we want to share a crucial aspect of our groundbreaking home-care model, the meet-and-greet. Once we have met a nurse, verified their license, and discussed our openings, we send the nurse out to the client home for a casual meeting that we call the meet-and-greet. It is an opportunity for the nurse to...
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Measuring the Difference – Why Our Slogan Matters
We use the statement at Communities of Care "making a measurable difference in our clients' lives every day" to describe our care. But how does that show up in our daily operations?
I started this agency in 1999 to care for my daughter's medical needs. She had frequent bouts of pneumonia and multiple hospital stays. Once...
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