What Is Wellness Coordination?
As part of supporting your family member in all areas of her life, your family member’s habilitation provider might recommend something called Wellness Coordination. This program can help your family member to manage her health and wellness in conjunction with her needs. This involves her overall health beyond just regular routine doctor’s visits. All of this can feel like a lot, which is why Wellness Coordination makes life simpler for your family member and for you.
Wellness Coordination Services Defined
Wellness Coordination involves making and following a plan that supports a person’s healthcare needs. These types of services are usually services beyond just going to the doctor or to the dentist. There are different levels of coordination that your family member might qualify to receive. There is a lot of information that needs to be collected during this process, and that can feel intimidating at first.
It Starts with a Wellness Coordination Plan
To start, your family member is assessed in terms of whether she qualifies for Wellness Coordination services. Afterward, she’s given a health score which helps to determine the level of Wellness Coordination services she should receive. There are lots of different variables that go into developing the plan and calculating the health score.
Health History Is Documented Thoroughly
Part of developing the Wellness Coordination plan and managing it going forward involves thoroughly documenting your family member’s health history. This might involve collecting doctor’s records and getting information about other health issues, like collecting dental histories.
Information like your family member’s height and weight as well as any yearly physical exams, vaccinations, and other health information are all necessary.
Services Are Provided by a Nurse
Wellness Coordination services are provided by a nurse, either an RN or an LPN working directly under an RN. This helps to ensure that your family member’s Wellness Coordination plan is followed properly and that your family member is getting the help and the services that she needs. If additional risks are discovered or your family member’s health and wellness needs change, the nurse coordinating her plan can update that information and ensure that your family member gets what she now needs.
Residential habilitation services providers can help you to understand your family member’s needs for Wellness Coordination and can walk you and your family through what needs to happen. They can ensure that your family member’s Wellness Coordination plan is as accurate as possible on an ongoing basis.
If you are considering wellness coordination in Lawrence, IN, please call the caring staff at RSI Cares. Serving Greater Indianapolis Area. Call for Immediate Info & Assistance: 317-471-0750.
As a practicing Registered Nurse, Etelka was keenly aware of a void in quality patient care that could be provided in the home. She embarked upon a journey to develop a home health care agency that would exceed all expectations and become a trusted partner to physicians and patients.
A Distinguished Career From Nurse to Director of Nursing to President of Home Services Unlimited
Etelka’s distinguished career followed a logical progression to her position as President of Home Services Unlimited. She graduated as a nurse practitioner with a Bachelor of Nursing (RN) in 1972 from Meshgorya University in the Ukraine, close to where she lived with her family. She married her husband Phil in 1973 and decided in 1977 that they would relocate to the United States to be closer to family and to come to this land of opportunity. With an eagerness to continue her budding career, Etelka sat for and passed her Boards in the U.S. in 1979.
A Love and Talent for Working with the Elderly
Etelka began her nursing career in the U.S. at Colonial Crest, now part of Golden Living, where shewasthe In-service Coordinator, the Director of Training and Education and Director of Nursing, a position she occupied for several years.
With a group of partners, she co-founded Adept Corporation, which operated group homes for the mentally challenged. The business was successful and in 1996, Etelka sold her share to return to her roots, caring for the elderly.
In January of 1997, Etelka opened Home Services Unlimited as a fully licensed business to provide home health care. In her quest to learn to do better for her patients, she had already obtained a Masters in Healthcare Administration (MHA) in May of 1990 from the College of St. Francis. As President of Home Services Unlimited, Inc., Etelka guides the trusted, experienced care model Home Services Unlimited uses to continue providing excellent home health care.
Giving Back to the Community of Indianapolis
Volunteering for community services is a high priority for Etelka. Her memberships include the Indiana Association of Rehabilitation Facilities, Executive Women in Health Care and the Indiana Association for Home and Hospice Care, where she is a member of the Board of Directors.
Etelka has also served on the Board of Directors with Hooverwood Home, a highly regarded geriatric facility, since 1997 and as the President for 2005-2006. Through her community work, she has received several awards and accolades, including the Nora McFarland award in 2002, from the Indiana Association of Home and Hospice Care.
Etelka was honored as a “Health Care Hero” by the Indianapolis Business Journal. The issue can be read online here:
http://mags.ibj.com/activemagazine/welcome/html/ibjhch.html.
After clicking on the link, then click on the image of the issue’s front page. After that, you can browse through the issue or click in a box near the top of your internet browser to adjust the page to 17, which is where Etelka’s article appears.
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