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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Carry On
In his press conference Governor Walz congratulated Minnesotan’s on doing a great job keeping social distance, complying with the Stay at Home order, and flattening the curve. Our actions are certainly saving lives. Without these interventions, the statistical projections were that over 70,000 lives could have been lost in Minnesota – that’s your family, friends and neighbors. But now that will not happen, because we have all joined together to prevent it.
I have an additional message for our home care families, nurses, friends, and advocates: Carry on. More specifically keep social distance and complying with the Stay at Home order. When you are out, take precautions as if everyone else has the Covid-19 virus. That does not mean to wear your snowmobile helmet to the grocery store. It does mean to keep 6 feet from others and to wash your hands thoroughly when you return home. Keep hugging members of your household, but stop sending your kids to play ball with the neighborhood kids. For home care families, it means that we will probably continue this for many more weeks, and maybe even a few more months.
We have seen so many Minnesotans helping each other with grocery shopping, neighborhood signs of encouragement, teacher parades, stocking food shelves, and generally supporting each other. Kudos to everyone who is part of the solution. I want to give a big shout out to our Director of Nursing, Janelle, who made fabric masks for our nurses and families. She even took it as an opportunity to teach her daughter how to sew and give them a project to do together. Now, that’s a Leader in action! Be sure to thank a leader or someone helping in this time of uncertainty. We say a big thank you to Janelle!
Stay at Home Plan – We’ve Got This!
Governor Walz announced today that Minnesota will be under a Stay at Home plan from midnight Friday March 27, 2020 until Friday, April 10, 2020. It is similar to the Shelter in place plan in so many other states, so we can certainly learn best practices from our friends and families in other states.
What does...
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Helpful Covid-19 Resources
Greetings from Communities of Care. We have been carefully researching Covid-19 guidance from CDC, Minnesota Department of Health, and Governor Tim Walz for the past several weeks. My Director of Nursing and I have carefully created policies and guidelines for our clients and nurses, and we are in close communication with them. There are many...
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Disability Hub MN: An Online Resource
The Disability Hub (https://disabilityhubmn.org/) is non profit organization that operates out of Centers for Independent Living and provides free resources and coaching to Minnesotans with disabilities. Categories of information include Health, Housing, Money, Skills, and Work, and they have live specialists available to help you get to the right information through phone, chat, or...
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