By DAN ROBINSONKenton Times staff writer ADA — Caring for others is more than just a job to Lisha Wilkerson, RN. As the assistant supervisor at Community Health Professionals in Ada, she is one of four nurses who make home visits to check up on residents in Hardin, Hancock, and Allen counties. She may stop…
By 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…
Chad 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…
By 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…
There 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…
This month CHP honors the nurses, aides, therapists, and social workers who make a remarkable, yet often unnoticed impact in the lives of many in our community. By delivering needed services into the homes of elderly, ill, and disabled patients, these dedicated caregivers play an important role in our health care system and in homes…