Pushpanjali Crosslay Hospital recently launched the Home Health Care programme and commenced the 4th batch of Home and Community-Based Care (HCBC) certificate course being run by IGNOU at Pushpanjali Crosslay Hospital.
Dr Bimla Kapoor, Chief of Central Zone, IGNOU informed that this course provides complete quality health services at home and in community to help restore and maintain people’s health standards and way of living by providing health services at home. Home Care will provide back-up for people, commonly occurring diseases/ situations can be effectively managed at home, institutionalised care is not the most appropriate care for many problems.
Home and Community-Based Care offers services to people with:-
Physical impairment: People recovering from illness, terminally ill persons, at risk people with moderate to severe functional disability. People who are suffering from any physical injury such as critical road side accidents, paralysis patients, people who are unable to walk or unable to do their work on their own.
Medication adherence support: These services help elderly adults with their medical needs, as well as help them with bathing and hygiene. This type of support is needed for very old patients and people who are having prolonged disease.
Counseling to people: Services such as assisted living, hospice, adult-day services, physical therapy and senior centres. Community-based long-term care allows elderly adults to stay in their homes for care.
Objectives of the course
To prepare a work force in the country with the skills required to look after elderly and people suffering from chronic progressive illnesses (sickness).
To provide care to people in their home setting after discharge from tertiary care.
To help the family members and patients cope with the stress of care to their long term ailing relatives.
To provide quality of life for the patient and the family members.
Dr Ruby Bansal, Head of this programme told that Pushpanjali Crosslay Hospital in collaboration with Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is running a certificate course in home based patient care provider. It is a six-month certificate course.
Three batches of 10, six and eight students have finished this course. The fourth batch started from September 20, and has 36 students for this course. After successful completion of this course, a home-based care provider can earn Rs 300-500 per 12 hours.
Role of IGNOU in the course
- Admission of CHBCP Students @ Rs 1,500 per student
- Providing study material and certificate of the course after successful completion
- Organising theory exams in their centre/ online
- Providing assignment questionnaire
Pushpanjali Crosslay Hospital is providing them theoretical and hand on practical training which includes:
- Conducting theory classes for eight days
- Conducting practical classes for 19 days under special guidance of nursing manager and nursing supervisors
- Provide BLS training to the students
- Conducting practical exams
Dr Vijay Agarwal, Executive Director of Pushpanjali Crosslay Hospital said that Pushpanjali Crosslay has launched the home healthcare programme based on the concept of
- ‘Home care’, ‘home health care’ and ‘in-home care’ which are terms used interchangeably to mean any type of care given to a person in their own home.
- Used in the past interchangeably regardless of whether the person requires skilled care or not.
- Growing movement to distinguish between ‘home healthcare’ meaning skilled nursing care and ‘home care’ meaning non-medical care
Home healthcare can be provided for medical or psychological assessment, wound care, pain management, disease management including IV, physical therapy, speech therapy, or occupational therapy.
Home Care Life assistance services include:
- Activities of daily living (ADL) refers to six activities – bathing, dressing, transferring, using the toilet, eating and walking that reflect the patient’s capacity for self care.
- Instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) refers to six daily tasks: (light housework, preparing meals, taking medications, shopping for groceries or clothes, using the telephone, and managing money) that enables the patient to live independently in the community.
Pushpanjali Home Health Care Programme aims at Home Care PLUS Home Health Care, Home Care: Training Aides, Health Care: Partnering with Trained, Providing Medical Equipments and Pharmacy.
Pushpanjali Crosslay Hospital will co-ordinate for all such activities and will provide medical care to needy at home.
Contact Details:
Gaurav Pandey
Sr Manager (Mktg & Corporate Relations)
Pushpanjali Crosslay Hospital
(400 beds Multisuperspeciality Tertiary Care Hospital)
W-3, Sector -1, Vaishali
Ghaziabad – 201001
Tel: (0120) 4173000/ 4188000, (Direct) 4173823
Mob: 9811778998
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.pushpanjalicrosslayhospital.com
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