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Almost Home Kids Services |
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Almost Home Kids Provides:
- A Care Coordination Program for Families whose children have special health care needs.
- Medical Resource Libraries and Care Coordination Services for physician's offices.
- "CoACH Approach" Training programs for families and health care providers.
- A Midwest Conference for Children with Special Health Care Needs.
- Direct patient care services at our children's Center, in Naperville, Illinois.
- Consulting Services to support the Center development nationwide.
- Speaking from the Heart - guest speakers for events, conferences, and more.
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Respite Care
The Respite Care Program welcomes children for time periods from overnight to 14 days each year. The child will be provided with highly skilled clinical care and recreational activities in a secure and therapeutic environment, while their parents/caregivers tend to personal or family issues. Families may choose Almost Home Kids for respite care for variety of circumstances: Open nursing shifts, parent illness or need for surgery, vacations, family emergencies and much needed sleep/rest.
Transition Care and Training
This program transitions medically fragile children from the hospital intensive care units to home, using a multidisciplinary team approach to train the parents on the care of their child. Children at the Center receive physical, occupational, speech and medical massage therapy to improve functional skills. The programs also works to ensure that when the child is ready to go home, all needed services and accommodations are in place. These include home health nursing, physical/occupational/speech therapy, electrical sysem upgrades and physical adaptations to the home.
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Phone: (630) 271-9155 |
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Medical Home Care Organizer |
Introduction
This Organizer was planned with family-centered and family-sensitive care in mind. We believe that if empowered and given the correct tools, parents will become stronger partners with their child’s primary care physician and other health care professionals and educators. This teamwork ensures a seamless quality care coordination process that meets the needs of the family and child. You will see that the Organizer combines health, education, community activities, therapies and family to ensure that you can meet the needs of the "total child".
Using the tabs on the top of this page, consider the section or sections that apply to your child. If your child requires extensive medical management and has home care services that include private duty nursing and medical supplies for example, the contents of the entire Organizer can be useful. If your child has less intense needs but nonetheless requires medical management in the areas of medications, therapies or education goals, then choosing certain sections of the Organizer may be easier to manage. |
Do you love your Father? Do you love to eat, laugh and win raffle prizes? Then have we got the place for you!!
Sunday June 20th Pappa-Palooza at the Roundhouse in Aurora combines all those things AND benefits our own Almost Home Kids!
-Doors open at 5pm with entertainment from 6pm-10:30pm -Tickets can be purchased over the phone by credit card by calling 630-264-2739 x223 -Adults $25.00 includes: 1 admission to the show, 2 free Johnsonville bratwurst, and a raffle ticket for every dad (under 12yrs $10)
For more details on sponsors and activities, visit the Roundhouse website at:: http://www.rh34.com/index.php?load=calendar&page=index&op=event_view&event_id=1614 Take the Burlington Northern to Aurora and step right off and into the Roundhouse. Get the schedule here: http://metrarail.com/content/metra/en/home/maps_schedules/metra_system_map/bnsf/schedule.html?schedule-start=CUS&schedule-end=ROUTE59&schedule-day=bnsf_saturday&schedule-time=06%3A30&schedule-submit.x=91&schedule-submit.y=16 If you are out of town and can't make the event, please consider making a donation to AHK in your father's name. We will send a card to dear ol' Dad telling him you honored him and all he has done for you by supporting Almost Home Kids. Your Dad made a big impact on your life, help us continue to make an impact in the lives of the special children and families at Almost Home Kids. To make a gift, please go to https://www.almosthomekids.org/help/online. Contact Tiffany Crowe at 630-271-9155 or +for more information. |
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We hope you enjoy using this Care Organizer. Using it ensures that the child's care can be managed in a way that provides quality care for the "whole child". By implementing this tool on a continued basis the organizer can prevent duplicated services, eliminate fragmentation and offer critical information during emergencies that could save a child's life.
Often times the stresses of caring for a child with special health care needs (CSHCN) stems from not remembering what needs to be done, forgetting to follow up on an appointment, worrying about a potential crisis and not being prepared to respond with accurate information. To eliminate these stressors means a better quality of life for the entire family.
Although this organizer can be tedious to fill out initially, the goal is that once it's up to date and can be managed over time, it will make life easier for the family.
The Medical Home concept strives to serve and promote a better quality of life for children and youth with special health care needs and enhances the family's relationship and communication with their primary care physician and other specialists/therapists caring for their child.
The Care Organizer is simple to navigate. The form titles are listed in categories that are easy to understand and access. Each form has data that provides you with a clear picture of the total child while making care giving and medical management easier and safer to provide.
This Organizer is planned with family-centered and family-sensitive care in mind. We believe that if empowered and given the correct tools, the parents will become stronger partners with their child's primary care physician and other health care professionals and educators. This teamwork ensures a seamless quality care coordination process that meets the needs of the family and child. You will see that the Organizer combines health, education, community activities, therapies and family to ensure that you can meet the needs of the "total child".
Using the tabs on the top of this page, consider the section or sections that apply to your child. If your child requires extensive medical management and has home care services that include private duty nursing and medical supplies for example, the contents of the entire Organizer can be useful. If your child has less intense needs but nonetheless requires medical management in the areas of medications, therapies or education goals, then choosing certain sections of the Organizer may be easier to manage. |
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We hope you find great information to share with your audience. Your work in sharing our story will
provide children and families with a wonderful community resource that they can depend on. We are pleased to have been in People
Magazine's May 27, 2002 issue. You can find it on the People website in Archives.
We have also received wonderful publicity and well thought out articles from writers who either work for or freelance with the following papers:
Chicago Tribune
Sun Times
Daily Herald
Tribune West
Liberty Press
Sun Publications
Doings
Suburban Life Graphics
West Suburban Living
Nursing Spectrum Magazine
Naperville Community Magazine
Television Media Support:
Channel 5 - Health Watch
Channel 2 - CBS Early Show
Channel 9 - Fox News in the Morning
Naperville Cable Network
THANK YOU ALL for Caring for Almost Home Kids! |
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