In The News
CSU Men's Basketball Team visits The Worthington
CSU women's basketball team
making an impact on community
The Colorado State University women's basketball team visited New Mercer Commons assisted living facility last week to spend time with the residents. The residents and the althetes enjoyed their time together.
Fort Collins Coloradoan
http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20100119/SPORTS/1190327/1006/
SPORTS/CSU-women-s-basketball-team-making-an-impact-on-community
Fort Collins chefs go gourmet with pantry food
"Chefs Patrick Laguens of Plank and Ernie Post of Café Columbine squared off under the spotlight Saturday night in the third annual Commodities Cook-Off for the Food Bank for Larimer County."
Fort Collins Coloradoan
http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009909130331
Lakeview Commons
takes home Loveland corn shucking title
Reporter-Herald
http://www.reporterherald.com/news_story.asp?id=24540
Columbine Adds Monitoring Service
Columbine Health Systems and Connections365 have announced a telehealth monitoring program that enables clients to keep in touch daily with the Columbine health-care team.
Columbine added the service to enhance the quality of care it provides its clients.
The kiosk, or health buddy service, allows clients to record vital signs data and to answer health questions from their own home, independent living apartment or assisted living facility.
The overall goals are to monitor patients daily, to prevent unnecessary hospitalizations or other medical interventions, to keep health-care providers informed of a clients' status and to impact each clients' quality of life.
Fort Collins Coloradoan
http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20090817/BUSINESS/
908170310/1046/business/Daily-briefing
Non-medical home care agency to expand services in Northern Colorado
Fort Collins, CO, May 29, 2009 -Two leaders of senior care services in Northern Colorado have joined to create a new non-medical home care agency. Melanie Keech, president of Home Helpers and Bob Wilson, owner/operator of Columbine Health Systems combined their expertise, experience, and resources to open a non-medical home care agency, Caring Solutions, LLC.
Columbine Health Systems began as a single nursing home in 1971. The unprecedented development of the company over the past 38 years has grown the organization to 22 businesses. The health care components include: independent living, assisted living, skilled nursing/rehab facilities, medical home care, pharmacy services, medical equipment, and out patient therapy. Included in the offerings are Café Columbine & Bakery, the Drake Centre, and a health club – the Lifestyle Centre.
Keech started Home Helpers in 2005 with the goal of raising the standards of non-medical home care. Serving Northern Colorado, Caring Solutions, LLC offers personalized care that is affordable and dependable for clients whether they are at home, a retirement community, skilled or rehab center, or a hospital.
Caring Solutions, LLC will continue to provide the same services and maintain the same clients, caregivers, office staff, and management team as Home Helpers offered. Keech states “this relationship will allow us to be more proactive in our assessment and delivery of our services; provide additional services and products; and to be more focused in the training our caregivers”
“We have added non-medical careproviders to our System because we had concerns about the caregivers that were coming into our buildings”, stated Bob Wilson. He goes on to say, “We wanted to ensure that qualified caregivers were available for the residents we serve in our facilities as well as for the community. We joined forces, in our opinion, with the best non-medical companion company in town.”
Call Caring Solutions, LLC at 667-4545 for a free in-home consultation and to learn more about the professional services and caregivers.
Fort Collins Area Chamber of Commerce
http://www.fcchamber.org/Sub_PressRelease_Detail.asp?id=3478
Northern Colorado Business Report
http://www.ncbr.com/enews.asp?date=6/4/2009#story4