Communities of Care

Where Everybody Knows Your Name: The Benefits of a Boutique Agency

This week, we want to give some insight into how our small-business model helps us focus on client care. Many home-care agencies are run with multiple levels of management and an impersonal, corporate tone. Communities of Care has one team of easily accessible office staff, and we make it a point to promptly...

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...

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...

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...

February 8, 2015
Welcome!

Welcome to the Communities of Care blog. Since 1999, we...
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May 19, 2023
A Guide to Different Lung Sounds

Our nurses often have to monitor our patients’ breathing and...
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May 10, 2023
Happy National Nurses Week 2023!

This week, we want to honor National Nurses Week, May...
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May 3, 2023
Living Our Values: Client-Centered Care

We’ve discussed the importance of customized care for our clients...
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April 18, 2023
What Makes a COC Nurse?

Communities of Care holds a comprehensive home care nursing license,...
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April 11, 2023
Condition Spotlight: Ventilators

Many of our patients are on ventilators, but people who...
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April 6, 2023
Keeping a Lid on It: Medication Safety Week 2023

This week (April 1-7) is Medication Safety Week! Medications, properly...
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March 28, 2023
The Magnificent Benefits of Magnesium

Magnesium has been getting a lot of buzz lately as...
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March 21, 2023
Raising Awareness for Brain Injury Awareness Month

This week, we want to recognize Brain Injury Awareness Month,...
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March 14, 2023
Izzy Wheels: Making Inclusive Fashion Fun!

A while ago, we shared the story of the brand...
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February 28, 2023
Professional Boundaries

At Communities of Care, we take pride in our professionalism....
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