Home health and hospice care services in Juneau, which were shut down last October, are scheduled to resume during the next few days at Bartlett Regional Hospital, a director of the program said Tuesday.<\/p>\n
“We will start seeing our first patient by the end of this week,” Kim Stout, the hospital’s executive director for post-acute care, told Bartlett’s board of directors at its meeting Tuesday night. She said care for that patient could begin as soon as Thursday.<\/p>\n
Services will be limited during the initial stage, Stout said.<\/p>\n
“We still just have one nurse trained right now,” she said. “But we have two more arriving by the end of August. And so we can’t just accept a large number of patients. They have to be on-call 24\/7. But we’re here, we’re going to do a slow opening and we’re going to start accepting patients.”<\/p>\n
Other staff includes home health and hospice clinical managers, two chaplains, and an administrative assistant\/volunteer coordinator. The program will also use the hospital’s physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech-language pathology, social worker and dietician employees to help deliver care services.<\/p>\n
The hospital now has a hospice page at its website<\/a> detailing services that will be available, eligibility requirements and other information.<\/p>\n