Support at Every Stage: How Aultman Helps Patients Receive Care at Home
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On this episode of Health Matters with the Medicine Center Pharmacy, Paul White and Brad White sat down with two special guests from Aultman Health System: Cheri Greenwell from Aultman Health Care in Your Home and Traci Hocking, Director of Hospice & Palliative Care. They joined us during National Care at Home Month to help families better understand the full range of care options available outside the hospital.
Whether you’re caring for an aging parent, recovering from an illness, or navigating a serious diagnosis, understanding these services can make an enormous difference in quality of life.
What Is Home Health Care?
Home health care provides skilled medical support—right in the comfort of your home. Cheri explained that services may include:
Nursing visits
Physical, occupational, or speech therapy
Medication management
Wound care
Monitoring after hospitalization or surgery
Home health is designed to help patients regain strength, maintain independence, and avoid unnecessary hospital visits.
Who Qualifies for Home Health?
Home health services typically support individuals who:
Have a temporary or long-term medical need
Are recovering after surgery or hospitalization
Have trouble safely leaving home for care
Need skilled therapy or nursing oversight
Most home health services are paid for by Medicare, Medicaid, or private insurance, depending on the patient’s needs and eligibility.
How Often Do Providers Visit?
Visit frequency depends on the care plan. Cheri shared that nurses or therapists may visit several times a week, checking vital signs, reviewing medications, and tracking progress. The goal is to help patients improve safely at home while supporting caregivers along the way.
Understanding Palliative Care
Palliative care focuses on improving quality of life for people living with serious illnesses. Traci explained that palliative care:
Helps manage pain, symptoms, and stress
Supports both patients and families
Can be provided at any stage of illness
Can be offered alongside curative treatment
It is not limited to end-of-life care—many people receive palliative care for months or even years while continuing their normal treatments.
What Makes Hospice Different?
A common myth is that hospice means “all care stops.” Traci clarified that hospice is actually active, compassionate care focused on comfort, dignity, and support during the final stages of life. Hospice care includes:
Symptom and pain management
Nursing support
Social workers and chaplains
Emotional and spiritual care
Support for caregivers
Bereavement services for families
Hospice care is covered by Medicare, Medicaid, most private insurances, and the Veterans Administration.
Special Services at Aultman Hospice
Traci highlighted several unique aspects of Aultman’s program:
A 4-out-of-5-star rating from Medicare
Access to specialized programs designed to support patients and families
Robust bereavement support following a loss
Exceptional collaboration with local providers and caregivers
Families can contact Aultman Hospice directly to ask questions, request information, or make a referral for a loved one.
How to Learn More
For hospice or palliative care, Traci encouraged families to reach out directly to Aultman Hospice with questions or referral needs.
For home health services, Cheri shared that Aultman Health Care in Your Home is available across our region and can help determine eligibility for service.
At the Medicine Center Pharmacy, we work closely with trusted community partners like Aultman to support the health of local families. If you ever have questions about medications, home health supplies, or caring for a loved one at home, our pharmacists are always here to help.
Thanks for listening today! We’d like to remind our listeners, if you suspect you have a medical issue, please contact your healthcare provider. Thanks to our sponsor Aultman Health System. As always, we thank our listeners for joining us on Health Matters with the Medicine Center Pharmacy. Have a healthy week and we’ll see you again next Friday right here on News Talk 1480 WHBC.
If You Could See the Invisible World That Your Immune System Battles Everyday— You’d Be Terrified
The invisible, harmful agents your immune system has to fight every day are downright scary. To make matters worse, your immune response becomes much weaker as you age. In fact, foreign cells that invade the body and outfox the immune system actually age your body prematurely. You’re exposed daily to hundreds of different toxins and attacking cells, and they’re chomping at the bit to set up a butcher shop in your body. Guess who they’re going to use for meat?
Here’s a Simple Example:
You’ve just been grocery shopping, and without knowing it, the person who used the shopping cart before you had an invisible, very unfriendly invader on their hands. Now it’s on YOU, and in YOUR body. And speaking of groceries, during a recent contaminated food scare, our government warned that older population and others with impaired immune systems were especially vulnerable. Problem is, people with impaired immune systems are a dime a dozen. Do you ever use bug spray? Get exposed to paints, pesticides, and pollution? Ever been around cigarette smoke or chemical cleaners? Eaten unhealthy foods? All of these things can contribute to an impaired immune system.
Even Stress and Grief Weaken the Immune System
All these factors, and countless other everyday assaults, wear down your immune system as you age. This may result in immense damage to the cells in your heart, brain, lungs, and every other cell in your body. Is it any wonder that you might feel run down today and that you have a weakened immune defense?
But This Doesn’t Have to Be The Case
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What is ImmPower’s secret for enhancing your immune system and energy?
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But you have to keep arming your troops or they’ll be overrun!
Unfortunately, NK-cell function, power, and activity fluctuate throughout your life. That’s because 24 hours a day, NK-cells are battling the effects of emotional stress, the environment, and your health history. As your NK-cell function wears down and response declines, your “defense department” doesn’t attack and kill the “bad guys” as vigorously as it should. The consequences? Your entire immune system becomes exhausted and overwhelmed, leaving you vulnerable, impacting your health, and your ability to fully enjoy life. Fortunately, numerous clinical studies and laboratory results have shown that:
Natural Killer (NK) cells are your immune system’s frontline defense.
They inject invaders with “hand grenades” called cytotoxic granules.
The granule lysis dissolves cell membranes, causing invaders to “explode” in seconds.
ImmPower revs up your immune system’s NK-cell activity by as much as 1000%!
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Keep out of reach of children.
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Size: 30 capsules/bottle
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Maintains peak Natural Killer cell function.
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