Pointe Coupee Homebound Health has been named a 2014 HHCAHPS Honors recipient, a prestigious award recognizing home health agencies that continuously provide quality care as measured from the patient’s point of view.
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Dr. Robert N. Helm was a family practice physician in New Roads for many years. After Dr. Helm’s retirement from his private practice he has continued to work as the medical director for Pointe Coupee Homebound Health and Hospice.
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Pointe Coupee Homebound Health Services has received a 2010 Louisiana Home Health Capstone Quality Award presented by eQHealth Solutions, the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization for Louisiana.
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Often times because we live in such small towns we find ourselves seeking medical treatment, surgery, or other health care needs in larger hospitals in large towns and cities. It is important for you to be aware that upon discharge if you are told that you need home health or hospice care there is a federal law that guarantees you the right to choose the home care or hospice provider that you may prefer to provide care for you in your home.
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Chloe Roy, a Catholic of Pointe Coupee senior, is a difference maker at her high school. As a senior year service project Chloe chose to promote breast cancer awareness, raise money to provide free mammograms to those in need in her community and present information to her fellow senior female students about the importance of prevention and early detection of breast cancer.
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Pointe Coupee Hospice would like to thank the LTC-Jumonville Memorial welding students and their welding instructor for their generous donation of time and talent for welding several Sheppard’s hooks for our hospice volunteer program.
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Pointe Coupee Hospice is really proud of our hospice volunteer program. Sylvia Chustz has a quilt making business called Sew Special and she donates some of her handmade quilts to our hospice patients. Cindy Woodrow has a monogram and embroidery business out of her home called RBS Embroidery, she uses her talents to monogram the phrase, “Quilts of Love from Pointe Coupee Hospice” on each quilt, and Carol Gautreau is also one of our handmade quilt makers.
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Pointe Coupee Hospice and Pointe Coupee Homebound Health Services would like to congratulate PC Hospice Volunteer, Cindy Gaspard, for being selected as the 2010 LMHPCO Heart of Hospice Louisiana Winner!
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Pointe Coupee Hospice Volunteers, Jane Jarreau and Blanche Jewell, take time to re-fill a bird feeder outside a Pointe Coupee Hospice patient’s window at one of the local nursing homes. This is just one of the many projects that the Pointe Coupee Hospice Volunteers do for the hospice patients.
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Pointe Coupee Homebound Health Services can provide VitalStim Plus therapy for patients with dysphagia or difficulty swallowing. VitalStim Plus provides neuromuscular electrical stimulation which helps recruit and re-educate muscles in the process of swallowing. Under the guidance of Pointe Coupee Homebound’s VitalStim certified speech therapist, Erin Cain, MA, CCC-SLP, patients partner in an interactive therapy that aids muscle strengthening to rehabilitate swallowing. Preset or customized programs allow the speech therapist to truly customize treatments while biofeedback and visuals create a patient focused experience that encourages engagement and achievement of goals.
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