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While non-essential services have halted after recent stay-at-home orders, local home care and hospice services remain available. CHP Home Care & Hospice and Defiance Area Inpatient Hospice Center are open and providing patients and families the care they need. “We are absolutely open for business, providing nursing visits and accepting new patients,” said Ronda Lewis, RN,…
DetailsBy JENNIFER DEMPSEY Paulding Progress Editor A few weeks ago, I was asked if I would like to ride along with a home health nurse from Community Health Professionals. Since I am usually willing to try out new things, I agreed right away. CHP Home Care & Hospice is based out of Van Wert. They…
DetailsChad Cluts of Payne sometimes refers to his home health nurse, Mary Lichty, RN, as “Mary Poppins” because she usually has a song to sing, which is like the “Spoonful of Sugar” that “helps the medicine go down.” Cluts was paralyzed in an automobile accident when he was in his 20s and lives in a…
DetailsBy Lucas Bechtol, The Bryan Times A doctor once said Helen Stahl wouldn’t live beyond 39. “The doctor came in and shook his finger right at me and told my mom, ‘That girl, if she lives to be 39 she’ll be really lucky,’” Stahl said. “We all had something. The other kids had measles, but…
DetailsOne of the great benefits of living in a small town is that when one of its residents is facing a difficult time, the local community often rallies around in support. That was the case for Payne resident, Donnie Egnor as he dealt with serious health issues over the past five years. Egnor says having…
DetailsThere has been a huge shift in recent years regarding where people die. According to a new report recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine, for the first time in at least a half-century, the home has surpassed the hospital as the leading place where people pass in the United States. Hospice programs…
DetailsBy Kirsten Barnhart, DHI Media News Editor – When home care nurse Kayla Wannemacher gets to work, the first thing she does is get ready for a day of caring for individuals. Wannemacher, an RN with Community Health Professionals in Van Wert, offers skilled care services where nurses meet the patient’s needs from the comfort…
DetailsBy Jim Langham, Times Bulletin Correspondent – When Julie Stutz’s daughter started kindergarten 25 years ago, she needed something productive to do outside of the home. At first, she wanted to be a veterinarian’s assistant, but when she saw several people in the community that needed outside assistance, her heart bent that direction. “I started…
DetailsThe decision to seek outside care for a parent or grandparent is usually boiled down to either keeping an elderly or disabled family member at home or putting them in a nursing facility. But, what if there was another option? Adult day centers are designed to enable adults of any age with physical impairments or…
DetailsBy Jim Langham, Times-Bulletin Correspondent DHI Media – The first word that comes to Yvonne Perrott’s mind when she thinks about her home health and hospice aides is “heart.” “All of our aides have a heart for what they are doing, and they connect with the hearts of those they are serving,” said Perrott, who…
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