To salute the Nursing Staff of Healthcare at Home

Ever imagined, how would this healthcare industry be without Nurses? A mere imagination would lead to a riot of thoughts and million visuals of people succumbing to diseases as simple as Pneumonia and viral fever.

People who have lost their near and dear ones for want of proper healthcare assistance best understand the need of the Nurses. Besides, those who have been saved from certain fatal conditions also very well know their worth. Healthcare industry cannot do without them. An indispensable part, nurses touch our lives in many ‘good’ ways.

“International Nurses Day was the best way to salute the brave heart that takes care of their patient first than family. Nursing staff are the back bone of healthcare industry and home healthcare services can’t run without them. HCAH realized the commitment of nursing staff and celebrated the day in different way. The smile on the nurses after the celebration was the prize money for us.” Says, Mr Vivek Srivastava, CEO, HCAH

To make the day different the HCAH nursing team donated food items at Mother Theresa Charity Home. Those nurses who were on duty were given tokens by the patient’s family.

“Since our inception in Jaipur we have created a team of dedicated nurses who give their half life to the patient. They just not take care of the patient but also support the family in mental grasping of the situation. It is the nurses who encounter the emergency first and it’s our duty to salute them on occasions like this.”Says, Mr Abhishek Malik, HCAH, Jaipur Unit Head.

As doctors are meant to cure patients, nurses are the helping hands to the team, which are equally important to be taken care of. Nurses can well do those tasks, letting the doctors have more time to work on more serious patients.

“I am grateful that I am part of such a great nursing team who always smiles and deliver the patient care satisfaction. When we came up with the idea of celebrating the Nurses day, I felt grateful to the HCAH team. Most of the time the nursing staff are ignored but at HCAH we are given the prime role and command over the situation. The joy is doubled when we felt special”, Said, Ms Beena Paul, Head Nursing Staff, Healthcare at Home, Jaipur.

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HealthCare at Home conducts health workshop

HealthCare at Home conducts health workshop for children at Chandigarh school

· Over 100 school children of Sr Secondary Model School and their parents participate in the workshop

· HCAH experts teach children about sanitation, hand washing techniques and share tips on healthy tiffin box etiquettes and correct sitting/standing postures

To bend their mind towards sanitation and inculcate in them healthy habits early in life, HealthCare at Home, India’s first hi-tech, documented, quality home-care service provider, conducted a sanitation and health workshop for primary and secondary classes’ children at a school here.

The workshop was organized at Sr Secondary Model School in which over 100 children, aged between 5 to 11 years, and their parents participated. The experts of HealthCare at Home, led by Physiotherapist Gaurav Sharma, taught the children right techniques of hand washing and its importance before and after every meal, post toilet sessions and after playing outdoors. They were also told about nail trimming and ill effects of unclean nails. The children and their parents were also briefed about correct sitting/standing procedures and right food for growing up phase of children.

“Hand washing is a basic habit that if inculcated at the right age goes a long way in life. Mere washing of hands can cut drastically spread of infection from hands to eatables. Ignorance sets in the children’s mind if they are not pestered about cleaning their hands. If they are made aware about eating with clean hands at a tender age, then the habit becomes permanent. Diarrhoea is one health problem that majorly happens because of filthy hand conditions. So the workshop was aimed at setting the behavior for proper hand washing and other good habits,” said Dr Gaurav Thukral, Head Medical Services, HealthCare at Home.

Besides this, tiffin box etiquettes were also discussed with the children during the three-hour session. They were encouraged about carrying eatables made up of whole grains, non-oily products and nuts. The experts differentiated between healthy and non-healthy foods in an engaging way so that children could understand it better.

“The children were very enthusiastic to participate in the workshop and participating parents found the initiative very informative. Under our CSR initiative, we are focusing on spreading awareness on health and hygiene. After receiving a good response from the children here, we are willing to take the initiative to other schools as well in Chandigarh and whole of Punjab,” said Mr Pardeep Sharma, Unit head, Unit Head, HCAH.

The management and teachers of the school, led by Principal of the school Mrs Anujit Kaur, vowed to sincerely work on inputs shared by the experts of HCAH on hand hygiene and healthy tiffin box habits.

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HealthCare at Home makes at-home medical care in India a reality

HealthCare at Home makes at-home medical care in India a reality

Dr Gaurav Thukral, Head, Medical Services, HealthCare at Home

Life is unpredictable! What lies in store for the next moment can’t be guessed, agrees Mr Rakesh. Life came crashing down for him when his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer two months ago.

A retired bureaucrat, Mr Rakesh’s only son lives in the US. On getting to know about his mother’s ailment, he came to India, only to return in a week due to urgent work assignment. It became exceedingly difficult for Mr Rakesh to manage the situation all by himself.

The doctors decided on treatment course that included modified radical mastectomy, adjuvant chemotherapy and post-operative care. His wife underwent surgery for right breast a month ago and now has to undergo chemotherapy sessions regularly at the hospital. The pain and trauma his wife goes through is unbearable and rips him apart. All this has taken a toll on his health too, given he is 76 himself. Taking his wife to hospital for chemotherapy, her care at home, and providing the emotional support she needs consume all his energy and leave him terribly exhausted. It is a herculean task for him to perform.

Mr Rakesh wishes if there was a way that could save his wife from the torture of travelling for chemotherapy sessions, and longs to have somebody who could lend her emotional healing and counseling she needs to cope up with the suffering better. Availability of such professional homecare isn’t possible, thinks he. But his doctor, the one handling his wife’s case, took him by surprise by telling that such a facility was being provided by HealthCare at Home (HCAH) which extends cohesive treatment and care in the comfortable confines of one’s home only.

Mr Rakesh subscribed to the services of HCAH and heaved a big sigh of relief. The HCAH nurse is adept at handling his wife’s case and keeps her doctor updated about her condition through the HCAH medical team. His wife now doesn’t need to visit hospital for chemotherapy sessions as it now done at home only. To top all, she has become stronger mentally to deal with her situation, thanks to the emotional boost being provided to her by the HCAH nurse.

Availability of such kind of facility could be a blessing in disguise for many whose near and dear ones have been in the intensive care unit (ICU) for weeks or in some cases for months; for those who want to end their hospital saga post major surgeries and wish to be home around their family members; for those who want to ensure better care for elderly at home; and for those who want to get rid of the mounting hospital bills and on the lookout for a cost-effective way of treatment.

There are several reasons for which people prefer home care to hospital care. One of the many is peace of mind. Just the feeling of being home is comforting and expedites the patients’ recovery, as being around the family and friends boost their morale after a critical illness or a major surgery.

Home care also saves both the patients and their family members from troublesome travelling to hospitals for regular check-ups or any treatment sessions. It ensures constant medical intervention and supervision to the patient without any interruption as their doctors concerned are always in the loop.

The personalized care offered through homecare addresses the unique needs of every patient. Longer stay at hospitals lead to huge medical bills, thereby putting enormous pressure on family members. Compared to hospital stay, home care is cost effective as it cuts the indirect expenditures.

When such a facility is not available, the work-life balance of the family members goes for a toss. But with facility like HCAH family members can resume a normal schedule, leaving their dear ones in trusted hands.

The backbone of HealthCare at Home is its highly qualified and registered healthcare professionals. The company hires employees after conducting through background checks. A lot of stress is put on the nurses’ training. After joining HCAH, all the nurses undergo a six-week training course. The staffs are made to learn clinical skills such as infection control and life support. Post training, a clinical competency check is conducted to check if procedures are performed in accordance with the best practice guidelines or not.

Apart from all this, IT training is imparted to the nurses, who are given a tablet device, so that the data captured by them could be sent to the doctors handling the respective cases in real time after the clinical evaluation by the HCAH team.

The personalized approach and IT-enabled operations encourage the doctor and patients or their family members to have greater control over the disease and its treatment.

Doctors too have found the HCAH services worthy of note and recommends it to their patients. “The concept of healthcare at home was given to me. I was told that this is something different from what was being offered in India so far. There was no cohesive kind of medical treatment being offered at home which could lead to a complete change in the scenario. So, when I referred my first patient and this was a GI surgical patient then I found the care which was provided to the patient in the post operative period at home, it was fantastic. I have referred patients to them and I am extremely happy with the kind of services that are being provided by HCAH,” says Dr Randeep Wadhawan, Director Minimal Access Surgery, Fortis Healthcare.

HealthCare at Home, undoubtedly, is a blessing for cancer patients. Additionally, for those who look forward to ending their stay in a hospital’s ICU as HCAH establishes one at home itself. Others services it caters to are post surgical care, post joint replacement care, home critical care services, post cardiac surgery care, home pulmonary care, care of elderly and home physiotherapy.

HCAH has its presence so far in Delhi, national capital region and Chandigarh. Plans are spread wings pan-India within two years.

There is nothing like home and for patients the feeling to be home gets pronounced. Let them now have the opportunity to be home, ‘sweet home’!

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