Rep. Fred Clark learns about home health and hospice
Rep. Fred Clark chats with Beverly Conger, a resident of the St. Clare Hospice House, Laurie Millard, RN, and Denise Gloede, RN, hospice program director for Home Health United.
State Representative Fred Clark recently spent a morning with Home Health United staff learning about home health care and hospice. He toured the St. Clare Hospice House with Denise Gloede, RN, hospice program director; Nancy Hoffman, RN, vice president marketing and fund development; and Laurie Millard, RN, Portage patient care manager. He met and talked with Beverly Conger of Reedsburg, one of the residents of the Hospice House. She told Clark that she receives wonderful care form the Hospice House staff.
Rep. Fred Clark visits with home health patient Frank Schoeninger, and his home health care team (standing) Lorraine Stevens, RN, Laurie Millard, RN, Tina Manthe, home health aide, and Jill Weidling.
Then Clark went on a home care visit with Lorraine Stevens, RN, Tina Manthe, home health aide, and Laurie Millard, RN, patient care manager. He talked with Frank Schoeninger of Wisconsin Dells, a patient who receives nursing, therapy, aide and oxygen services from Home Health United. Schoeninger explained the telehealth monitor that allows him to check his vital signs daily and relay them to an HHU nurse for daily oversight. He expressed his appreciation of the staff and went on to explain to Rep. Clark that he had spent four years living in a nursing home, and it was because of support from HHU staff that he is now able to stay in his own home.