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


Seabury at Home, Bloomfield
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.


LIFETIME Care at Home, Branford, Guilford, Shoreline
Providing a wide variety of options for private in-home care service, the LIFETIME Care at Home team will give you insight into care solutions and help create a more stable living situation, so you and your loved one can live more confidently.

LIFETIME Care at Home is affiliated with VNA Community Healthcare, a Medicare Home Health Agency. This allows them to address clients’ home care needs more quickly and efficiently than other providers.

To learn more about LIFETIME Care at Home:
866.968.7587 http://www.lifetimecareathome.com/about-lifetime-care



Seasons Hospice and Palliative Care, Middlebury CT
The Seasons Hospice team believes we should all be born into and leave 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- Seasons Hospice has more Certified Music Therapists on its staff than any other hospice in the nation. Even when people are no longer conscious or speaking, we console and comfort them with music. Research has shown that music is the last sense that registers with a dying patient. It is especially helpful in connecting people to happy memories of the past, reducing anxiety, and communicating with people diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.

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

1579 Straits Turnpike Unit 1-E,
Middlebury, CT 06762
Phone:
203-490-1000
www.seasons.org and www.seasonshospicefoundation.org



Weatherby and Associates, PC, Bloomfield,
CT North Haven, New London, and Stamford

Specializing in comprehensive elder care services.

The attorneys at Weatherby & Associates, PC have a unique approach that goes above and beyond what most people expect from a law firm. Their goal is to help their clients live as well as possible, as long as possible, and as much as possible where they want. They establish long-term relationships with their clients and their clients’ families so they can maximize their resources and deal with the inevitable changes in their life circumstances.

One service that sets them apart is their Life Care Plans, where they provide assistance with care coordination; family education on elder care matters, health and financial decision making; care advocacy; crisis intervention; and other supportive services. In addition to attorneys and paralegals, their team includes a Life Care Coordinator, a nurse who assesses clients’ physical environment, health status, and socialization, and makes recommendations about how to improve their level of safety and quality of life as well as providing health care advocacy for the client.

Weatherby & Associates, PC has a comprehensive, team-based approach and works collaboratively with other advisors and health care providers to help clients protect and care for themselves and their families.

Call Weatherby & Associates, PC at 888-822-8778 or
visit their website at www.weatherby-associates.com.



Regional Hospice With its outstanding staff of physicians nurses, home health aides, social workers and extensive number of talented volunteers provide palliative, hospice at home and nursing home services for both adults and children. They have served this community for decades and are in the early stages of building a beautiful hospice residence for people seeking a home like environment for their acute or end of life care. They also provide extensive commodity services including their comprehensive and much appreciated Healing Hearts Center for Grieving Children and Families. They also provide s unique and sadly enough Perinatal Hospice care services. Regional Hospice will distinguish itself among CT hospices by becoming the first to build a stand-alone hospice residence. Their new Center for Comfort Care & Healing is the state’s first and only nonprofit, all-private-suite, family focused hospice center. is a beautifully designed light filled residence for short term stays for hospice patients no longer able to live at home.

To learn more about Regional Hospice: 203-702-7400
http://regionalhospicehome.org/

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