Providers We Love

We are privileged to have received referrals from and be able to coordinate care with many Assisted Living facilities, rehab facilities, and Medicare Home Care and Hospice agencies. Our growth is in large part due to the trust the staff in these organizations have put in our caregivers. We are likewise impressed with them and we are committed to referring to them on a regular basis


Seasons Hospice and Palliative Care, Middlebury CT
Founded in 1997, Seasons is the fifth largest Hospice provider in the nation. Providing high quality clinical and compassionate care to patients and families in 15 states through 20 Medicare-certified home care clinical operations and 10 Hospice Inpatient Centers. In 2012, Seasons caregivers served more than 16,000 patients of all ages totaling more than 1 million patient days

The Seasons Hospice team believes we should all be born into and leaves the world in comfort, warmth and love. The caregivers at Seasons Hospice hold steadfast to placing patients and their loved ones at the center of hospice care. A team of physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains, music therapists and volunteers provide compassionate clinical Seasons Hospice is a community-based organization with a mission to find creative solutions that add quality to end-of-life care. It has special programs that go above and beyond traditional hospice care.

Some of their specialty programs include:
A Touch for All Seasons - Uses a person centered approach to improve quality of life through meaningful sensory activities that stimulate the senses, promotes relaxation, and offers comfort and serenity to those living with dementia and other diseases.

Leaving A Legacy - offers people the opportunity to share important stories, family traditions or messages of love via audio or video recordings

Music Therapy
The Seasons Hospice care team is available 24 hours a day by phone to answer questions or assist with a referral.

    579 Straits Turnpike Unit 1-E
    Middlebury, CT 06762
    203-490-1000 (P)
    203-490-1000.


Seabury Active Living Retirement Community, and Seabury at Home, Bloomfield
One of Connecticut’s first retirement communities, Seabury has grown impressively from its original facility. The sprawling campus now boasts several individual residences, from apartments to substantial single homes. Their memory care unit is superb. The surroundings provide lovely views in all seasons. An immense fitness facility, including a large pool promotes continued fitness of older adults. Seabury boasts an impressive participation of its residents in the fitness facility. Seabury also has an innovative Life Care program and Seabury at Home service. Their home care program provides both Medicare as well as home private duty services for the community and surrounding area. Their health care center boasts state of the art short-term rehab in a beautiful setting. There is excellent coordination with their Home Care agency, which provides nursing, and all therapies, following a comprehensive home safety assessment prior to discharge. It is a privilege to work in co-operation with them.

Seabury also has an innovative Life Care program and Seabury at Home service. This program allows seniors to remain in their homes while taking full advantage of the full scope of services at Seabury.
It is a privilege to work in co-operation with our colleagues at Seabury.


SLM Senior Options. Central and Western Connecticut
Sheri Morris, MSW, ACSW, LSSW is the owner of this unique senior services company providing a variety of much needed useful interventions for seniors and their families, including home assessment, family counseling, assistance with maximizing insurance benefits, locating good community services, bill payment, households management and much more. Sheri is extremely knowledgeable, personable and helpful.

She will provide a complementary assessment.

    Contact her at:
    Phone: 860-658-5440
    www.myseniorcareconnection.com


Home Care Advantage, Danbury CT
We are very proud to have Home Care Advantage as a referral partner in western CT. They provide professionally supervised private duty care including personal care, companionship, live in care and respite care for clients with chronic disease as well as those with Alzheimer’s. Their service specialties extend to infants, toddler and school age children.

Their services can be provided in both the clients’ homes as well as in facilities. They will soon be expanding into NY state as well.

For more information about Home Care Advantage, call 203 744 8380


Miller memorial Community, Meriden CT
Clients and families frequently ask us about “good” facilities for short-term rehab or placement for long-term skilled care. Connecticut is fortunate to have many high quality facilities. We caution families about focusing on the “wrong” aspects. These can include lavishly decorated lobbies, amenities directed at families and visitors, rather than residents and special programs with similar focus. Miller has been a fixture in the Meriden area for decades. Its assets include long-term stable, attentive staff especially the Certified Nurse Assistants who provide much of the care. The friendliness of all clinical and support staff cannot be underestimated. Other brag factors include their short term rehab program where residents receive significantly higher amounts of physical and occupational therapy than the norm over 75% of the time. An added popular feature is the number of private rooms available, an important differentiating factor.

Look beyond appearances when selecting the best in short term rehab or long term skilled care.

    360 Broad St # 1, Meriden, CT 06450
    (203) 237-8815


North Star Long Term Care Insurance Advisors
It is well known that the place most desired by seniors to in which to spend their days is their own home. Frequently there are challenges of chronic disease and disability requiting high quality long-term home care. It can be expensive. And confusing. We encourage all our clients and their families to consider purchasing long term care insurance. North Star is a wonderful company that helps seniors and their families sort out options, plans and benefits available. Their knowledgeable advisors are up to date n the best plans available and will help clients select the right fit for themselves or navigate the plan they already own. The process of “going on claim” when services are required can be daunting to families already dealing with the care needs of their loved ones. With over 40 years combined experience in this field there is no challenge they cannot overcome.

    To learn more about their services, call:
    Beata Everett at 203.493.0318
    www.NorthStarLTCi.com


Gentiva Home Health Care Services, Stratford, Old Saybrook, Hamden, Farmington.
Gentiva is a large national Medicare certified home health company. Their services include. Skilled nursing, physical therapy, occupational and speech language therapy wound care, disease and pain management, medication management and education. They maintain a special expertise in dementia care.

Most of these services can be found in any certified agency. And there are several hundred such agencies in CT.

But Gentiva distinguishes itself in countless ways:

Professionalism. All clinicians are connected electronically so that all their notes, information and observations documented on ipads in the patient’s home are instantly transferred to all team members.

Continuity of care. The patient benefits enormously when their nurse or therapist is the same each visit. Relationships are established and progress is made much more efficiently. This is a challenge for most home health agencies and few ever reach this ”optimum level of continuity”. Gentiva meets this standard 100% of the time.

Communication. All team members are instantly connected so they are all aware of each other’s progress toward the patient’s goals. Respectful quick communication with the patient (as text messages) alerts her/him about timing of visit and other important information. Calls into office are handled expertly.

Competence. The patients receiving care from Gentiva staff benefit from the latest in techniques, approaches, and other care aspects. This leads to immense patient comfort and trust. And great outcomes.

Customer Service. Long an important standard for Always There, we seldom see customer service that rises to the level of our own company’s standards.

We strongly suggest Gentiva to our clients in need of Medicare home health. They have long been a referral source of ours. But they now enjoy an endorsement from our company owner, perhaps the most challenging patient they have ever served.

Bravo!

We are happy to report that several folks have told us they use this column when seeking a provider for themselves or their family members. We take our recommendations of providers very seriously. Please consider our favorites in deciding care for yourself or your family members. We would choose any of them for our loved ones. ■