The careTEAM approach we embrace at Synergy HomeCare extends beyond our own caregivers and staff, including the families we serve as well as the other organizations and individuals dedicated to preserving our client’s emotional and physical well-being.
Here are just a few examples of how we work with health care providers:
Skilled Nursing Facilities with Rehab
Synergy HomeCare caregivers work closely with Skilled Nursing Facilities to ensure a smooth transition back to home living after a short-term stay. Having an experienced, dependable caregiver available to receive and follow instructions regarding safety, therapy techniques, medication usage, skin care, home environment safety, disease process, and accessing community resources, can be the difference in a successful recovery.
Home Health Agencies
For home health agency nurses, teaming up with a Synergy HomeCare caregiver can be a major advantage, supplying emotional care and homemaking services to patients who lack the ability to care for themselves or a dedicated caregiver at home. Working together, Synergy HomeCare and home health agencies can provide comprehensive care, ensuring a better outcome for the patient – and even after home health services have been discontinued, a Synergy HomeCare caregiver can stay behind, maintaining a safe, healthy environment.
Hospices
We’re proud to be working with all types of hospices; for profit, non-profit, independent and national hospice companies, across the country. Hospice care is a philosophy; it is unlike any other kind of care and calls for a certain kind of caregiver, and a certain kind of sensitive expertise, paying equal attention to both the patient and the family. When we work with a hospice, our experienced Synergy HomeCare caregivers make sure we understand the hospice’s policies and procedures, helping to foster seamless communication and a holistic team approach to providing emotional care. Whether we’re providing in-home services to augment the schedules of hospice team members, offering respite and homemaking services for stressed out family members or a bereaved spouse, or even coordinating safe transportation for patients who aren’t homebound, a Synergy HomeCare caregiver is the perfect accompaniment to compassionate hospice care.
Hospitals
Synergy HomeCare caregivers are working with a wide range of hospitals to provide patient-centric care to thousands of families nationwide. From highly specialized medical centers to general hospitals that offer a full range of patient services, non-profit or for-profit, trauma centers and teaching hospitals – Synergy HomeCare works carefully with each hospital to provide patient-based emotional and physical care.
Our caregivers are often called in while the patient is still in the hospital, providing “sitter” services for patients at risk for falls, wandering or confusion, or who simply desire a caring companion to stay nearby.
Care continues after discharge with a Synergy HomeCare caregiver providing transitional care, ensuring that the patient is successfully and safely established in his or her own home again. Working hand-in-hand with other in-home services, an attentive, dependable caregiver at home can sometimes mean the difference between a successful, long-term recovery or a rapid and expensive readmission. Our caregivers have also helped with emergency room patients who are not admitted to the hospital but still require support to stay safely at home.
Synergy HomeCare careTEAMs can also be found working with other hospital departments, outpatient programs, specialty clinics, hospital-based palliative care programs and more – all working with Synergy HomeCare to provide a true continuum of care for their patients.
Physicians
We have the privilege of working with many Primary Care Physicians, Specialists, and Specialty Clinics to ensure patients’ continued care in their home setting. Our caregivers implement doctor prescribed care plans by ensuring medication compliance and promoting a healthy lifestyle through nutrition and exercise. Synergy HomeCare’s experienced careTEAM is there to ensure safety and assist with daily activities such as moving from bed, walking around, preparing meals, shopping, and light housework. Having a trained, attentive caregiver can mean the difference between a non-compliant patient who is difficult to manage and one who can remain independent while working towards a well-structured recovery.
Long Term Care Insurance, Workers Compensation Insurance, and Employee Assistance Programs
As we’ve grown into a national organization, Synergy HomeCare has established national contracts with some of the largest organizations in the extended Health Care industry. We are recognized as a nationwide Preferred Provider in the Long Term Care Insurance and Workers Compensation Insurance industries, in addition to being a Priority Partner for the largest Employee Assistance Program in the nation. Moreover, we are contracted as the top provider for non-medical backup care from child/family care to senior care. With our growing national presence and reputation as an industry-leader, Synergy HomeCare continues to receive invitations to join the top provider networks across the country.
Assisted Living Facilities & Independent Living Facilities
As assisted living facilities and independent living facilities begin taking on more patients with greater needs, the line between these kinds of facilities and nursing homes has become blurred. The services required for patients to have a full and beneficial experience are more than what are generally offered at assisted living facilities and independent living facilities. That’s where Synergy HomeCare comes in. Synergy HomeCare has enhanced the lives of many seniors who stay at assisted living facilities and independent living facilities by providing additional service and friendship beyond what their facilities usually offer. We also offer service to those who are on a waiting list for an assisted living facility or independent living facility, helping to ensure a smooth transition. Because of Synergy HomeCare’s flexibility to work with assisted living facilities and independent living facilities for the sole benefit of our patients, we’ve become an industry leader in personal care.
Specialized Advisors and Senior Advocates
The goal of most families of seniors is to maintain and ensure the right balance of independence and support. This almost always calls for specialized planning and advice on care management, late-life financial planning and elder law.
These different aspects of effective senior planning usually come from different expert advisors. Synergy HomeCare has a highly valued history of working appropriately and effectively with the full range of professional advisors that seniors’ families trust and rely upon as unbiased advocates of their interests.
Synergy HomeCare services are recommended by:
- Elder Law Attorneys
Elder law covers a broad range of issues from estate planning to powers of attorney. Synergy HomeCare is confidently proposed often as an option for long term care, disability care, and care overseen by a fiduciary or guardian, a measure to ensure against fraud, abuse or neglect.
- Financial Advisor
Trust Officers, CPAs, Tax Accountants, Long Term Care Insurance and Life Insurance Agents, Financial Planners. All these specialists have referred their clients to Synergy HomeCare services. More and more of these specialists are becoming aware of the advantages of home care and the unique advantages when their clients’ families work with Synergy HomeCare.
Geriatric Care Managers
A Geriatric Care Manager (GCM) is a specialist who helps families caring for older relatives. The Geriatric Care Manager is trained and experienced in any of several fields, including nursing, gerontology, social work, or psychology, with a focus related to aging and elder care. GCMs assess and identify problems and provide solutions which may include help selecting and arranging in-home care services. Synergy HomeCare is proud of its relationships with many of the best GCM organizations across the country.
