As our states begin to re-open for business, we embrace many New Beginnings with joy. But we also want to ensure we follow procedures and safety measures.
Phoenix Home Care and Hospice is committed to serve and protect our clients, caregivers and clinicians. We have formed the COVID-19 Task Force which includes senior leadership and ownership. The COVID-19 Task Force meets daily to review the most current CDC guidelines and governmental regulations. We identify and assign actions. Our leadership team is following CDC guidelines so our field staff is safe and prepared to serve within each environment.
Phoenix Home Care and Hospice is committed to caring for you and continuing to offer our highly needed services that keep you safe in your home. As a home care provider, we are part of the plan to help keep people safe in their home and reduce the risk of exposure during this time. Phoenix Home Care and Hospice will ensure our clients have a home care professional supplying valuable oversight, providing assistance with critical day to day tasks and also caring for clients who need the skills only a clinical staff member or professional caregiver can offer. With our caregivers and clinical staff continuing to serve our clients, we are able to decrease the need for people to leave their home to complete errands, such as grocery shopping and picking up medications. We are also able to continue to oversee the care of people who are utilizing nursing services and reduce the chance of someone needing to go to a doctors’ office, urgent care, emergency room or hospital where the highest risks reside.
Our energy is focused on improving quality of life, perpetuating positive attitudes, and embracing the challenges life places before us with grace, respect, and compassion.
Our catalyst to consistently rise to new heights is a combination of perpetual learning, measurement of success, looking through the eyes of those we serve, and listening with our hearts, which causes us to pause and discover what is really important in each situation. Within the listening and the application of learning, we find new beginnings.
Phoenix Home Care and Hospice is committed to serve and protect our clients, caregivers and clinicians. We have formed the COVID-19 Task Force which includes senior leadership and ownership. The COVID-19 Task Force meets daily to review the most current CDC guidelines and governmental regulations. We identify and assign actions. Our leadership team is following CDC guidelines so our field staff is safe and prepared to serve within each environment.
As we continue to fight the COVID-19 Pandemic, vaccination remains our only weapon against decreasing the spread and protecting ourselves and our loved ones from serious illness or even death. A significant increase in new cases reversed what had been a steady decline since January 2021. The Delta variant has proven more infectious (more than 2x as contagious) and is leading to increased transmissibility when compared with other variants, even in some vaccinated individuals. Patients’ infected with the Delta variant are more likely to be hospitalized than patients infected with Alpha or the original virus that causes COVID-19. Even so, the vast majority of hospitalization and death caused by COVID-19 are in unvaccinated people. The greatest risk of transmission is among unvaccinated people who are much more likely to get infected, and therefore transmit the virus. Fully vaccinated people can get COVID-19 (known as breakthrough infections) but this is seen less often than unvaccinated people, and vaccinated people have been shown to spread the virus for a shorter time period than unvaccinated (i.e., lower amounts of viral genetic material were found in samples taken from fully vaccinated people who had breakthrough infections than from unvaccinated people with COVID-19). For people infected with the Delta variant, similar amounts of viral genetic material have been found among both unvaccinated and fully vaccinated people. However, like prior variants, the amount of viral genetic material may go down faster in fully vaccinated people when compared to unvaccinated people. This means fully vaccinated people will likely spread the virus for less time than unvaccinated people and have less severe symptoms than their counterparts.
As healthcare workers we must remain vigilant in protecting not only ourselves, but our clients and patients who depend on us to safely care for them in their homes. High vaccination coverage will reduce spread of the virus and also help prevent new variants from emerging. Below is the most recent update from the CDC and attached is information regarding Vaccine Safety for your review and consideration if you have not yet been vaccinated against COVID-19. This information will be sent by corporate HR to all field staff and placed on our website as well.
Phoenix Home Care & Hospice will do whatever it takes to ensure the health and safety of our healthcare workers and essential healthcare support staff. Our caregivers and clinicians are vital to our mission to keep people safe in their home by providing necessary home care services and reducing hospitalizations during this pandemic. We believe we have addressed the hazardous risks within our policies and have adequate resources available to meet the needs of our clients and staff.
As members of the healthcare community, we recognize the importance of protecting our healthcare workers and reassuring our clients and community that we can continue to safely care for them in their homes. We are dedicated to slowing the spread of COVID?19 in our communities and recommend all employees, contractors and staff receive a COVID?19 vaccine.
COVID Data Tracker Weekly Review | CDC
Care Well & Keep Well,
Emily Hobbs RN, MHA, BSN, HCS-C, HCS-O, HCS-D, HCS-H
Corporate Compliance Officer
Senior Director
Quality Assurance & Coding Dept.
Phoenix Home Care & Hospice
Missouri | Kansas | Illinois
