Friday, August 23, 2013
Friday, June 7, 2013
Resource and Benefits offered from Life Celebration
Life Celebration Resource and
Benefit Highlights
Benefit Coordinator
Staff and families benefit from this relationship
that provides an additional resource to assist in providing the things that
people need most, when they need them. This foundational process which helps
identify personal planning goals, available resources and options that make the
most sense by assessing each individual’s needs. This program
includes:
- Complimentary Estate Planning Guide
- Household Financial Worksheet
- Access to Wills, Living Wills, Advance Directives, P.O.A.’s
- and more...
Medicaid Planning
Business Office Managers and Consumers may benefit
from Medicaid Planning with this partnered program with Senior Planning Services
aimed at maximizing the outcome for the applicant and reducing pending days and
expense associated with applications for providers.
Irrevocable Trust (Final
Expense)
We
make funding a Medicaid compliant Irrevocable Trust easy. This can be
accomplished as part of a Medicaid planning or as a smart way to ensure that
every individual under care has adequate funding for future final
expenses.
Veteran Benefits
We
offer assistance to veterans and their families that include Health and
Well-being, Financial and Funeral and Burial Benefits. More comprehensive
financial planning is available through an accredited planner.
Property Assistance
Staff and residents, especially in our Independent
and Assisted Living Communities benefit from assistance in managing personal
property and real estate.
Financial and Estate Planning
While this program does not employ attorneys or
CFP’s, we can help connect individuals to these approved resources when
appropriate. Certified Financial Planners can advise on strategies that assist
with achieving goals of providing excellent care options and preserving assets.
These options may include Trusts, Insurance, Annuities or a variety of financial
instruments that best meet a client’s needs.
Companion Animal Care
Staff and Residents benefit from re-homing services
that help pets find a new home when an individual transitions into care. Through
this partnered program, we can access Pet Therapy, Pet Trusts, and
more.
Funeral Planning
Participants can access a national Life Celebration
network of funeral providers that offer preferred pricing and a focus on
personalized care.
Family Support
Caregiver support, bereavement support, children’s
support and pet loss support groups can be accessed through this
program.
Inspiring Life Programs
Make
today your best day. This partnered program with Life Choice Hospice helps
create an exceptional experience for hospice patients.
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Monday, April 8, 2013
Arrangements posted for Michael Goodwin
A celebration of his life will be held on Wednesday from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. and Thursday morning from 9:00 a.m. to 10:45 a.m.
The celebrations will be at:
John F. Givnish Funeral Home
10975 Academy Rd.
Philadelphia
The funeral for Capt. Goodwin will be held Thursday at 12:00 pm at:
St. Michael's Lutheran Church
2139 E. Cumberland St.
Philadelphia
He will be buried afterward at Hillside Cemetery in Roslyn, Pa.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions in Goodwin's memory can be sent to:
Firefighters Widow Fund c/o Local 22
415 N. 5th St.
Philadelphia, Pa. 19123
Anyone wishing to share memories of Goodwin can visit www.lifecelebration.com and post details about his life.
Friday, April 5, 2013
Benefit for Lucy Brown
APRIL 20, 2013
2PM – 4PM
EAST BRANDYWINE FIRE COMPANY
2096 BONDSVILLE RD, DOWNINGTOWN, PA
$20
for 20 games of bingo.
Prize
will be gift certificates of $25 or more to local restaurants
50/50
Raffle
$5
Bingo games worth bigger prizes
Refreshments
will be available. No alcohol please.
Call Hope Veterinary Specialists at 610-296-2099 and ask for Dawn, Margaret
or Laurie with any questions.
Lucy
was born on November 20, 2012. She is the beautiful daughter of Katie Brown,
one of the Internal Medicine Nurses at Hope Veterinary Specialists.
She was born with fluid around her lungs, and by the end of January, Lucy
needed to be placed on a ventilator to help her breathe. Since that time,
Lucy has been hospitalized at CHOP with a diagnosis of idiopathic dilated
cardiomyopathy. This is a condition in which her heart is unable to pump
adequately, leading to heart failure. She has had a multitude of tests
performed and still shows the strength of a true fighter. Lucy has been
able to get off of the ventilator; however, she did not respond to her oral
medications as well as they had hoped. She is currently being
maintained on IV heart medications and she is receiving nutrition through
a feeding tube. She was placed on the heart transplant list and was
accepted as top priority. Lucy is surrounded by the love of her
parents, Katie and Jared, and their extended family day and night, rendering it
difficult for them to work at this time. Please find it in your hearts to
help this amazing family by making a donation to the Lucy Brown Benefit
Fund. These donations are not tax deductable. Any donation would be
greatly appreciated in helping little Lucy and her family overcome this
difficult battle.
Thank
you for all your support!
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Langhorne Pet Fair Sponsors
The Langhorne Pet Fair is proud to announce our sponsors so far for the event:
- Happyfish
- Heather Davis Pet Treats
- Paw Prints
- Snipes Farm
- Merchant Match
- Bath Fitter
- Kitchens
- J-Dogs (Pet Fair food vendor)
- Wet Nose Rescue
- Renewal by Anderson
- Scentsy
- Chase's Babies
- Tucker Chiropractic
- Woodcrafts by Art
- Dr. Rosies Remedies
- DollyDoggy
Please join us for the event - Saturday May 11th.
Langhorne Pet Fair - Special Thanks
Langhorne Pet Fair wants to give a special thanks to their $250 Top Dog Sponsors and $100 Cats Meow Sponsors.
The $250 Top Dog Sponsors are:
- Affordable Party Rentals, who donated two large tents
- VSEC Veterinary Emergency Specialty Care
- Flowers Mill Animal Hospital
The $100 Cats Meow Sponsors are:
- Merchant Match
- Neshaminy Kids Club
- First Federal of Bucks County
More vendors are needed. Please contact Mark Arrington at arrington@verizon.net if you are interested.
Please join us for the event - Saturday, May 11th.
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Friday, January 4, 2013
Continuity of Care
from The Journal, NFDA Publication
October 11, 2012 • Vol. 3 No. 41
This Issue:
Committing to Culture Change....................................................... P. 1
OSHA Issues Penaties, Citations Against N.C. Funeral Home.... P. 8
The Notebook................................................................................... P. 9
From the Editor’s Desk.................................................................. P. 10
Committing to Culture Change
Life Celebration Creates Alliance with Nursing Home,
Hospice to Re-imagine the Continium of Care
Explaining the Process
Ken Neeld Jr., has been working with healthcare organizations
since 2007 to develop an experience based
patient care model, currently chairs the group
responsible for the development of “Adding Life to
Years,” a Life Celebration platform created for/ with Genesis
and another hospice program.
Neeld explains the process that initiates a discussion
about funeral arrangements in a nursing home (SNF),
which is different than the conversation initiated with patients
(consumers) in hospice. "Simply, the conversation about "buying" a funeral is part of the business process for nursing homes and more financially based. The conversation in hospice is more social service driven, as hospice tends not to manage/ advise on the finances of their patients."
Generally, what can we observe about our aging population?
A basic recognition that there is a spike in both the
aging population, and corresponding spike in the applicants
for Medicaid is important. The body that regulates
Medicare and Medicaid guidelines: the Center for Medicare
and Medicaid Services (CMS) established the ability
for consumers to fund an Irrevocable Trust to pay for future
end-of-life expenses.While helpful to a previous aging population, it is critical for today's aging population to retain some of their funds for future expenses.
Why do nursing homes ask residents to “buy” a funeral?
The process of entering skilled care typically initiates a
cascade of events. Simply, those events are expensive for a
mostly senior population. Beyond clinical care, an important
function of the nursing home is to secure payments
and maintain a continuity of payer-source.
As an individual enters an SNF or nursing home, they
will experience one of several outcomes: discharge after
(average) of about two or three months (if a rehab patient) or admission
as a long stay resident. The vast majority of individuals
that transition to a long stay resident end up
depleting assets- with many long stay residents now converted
to Medicaid as their payer-source.
Why is a pre-paid funeral trust sometimes designated as Irrevocable?
The Irrevocable Trust in fact was established as a
preservation tool to allow consumers to retain a predetermined
amount for future expenses which include the
funeral as they now had sufficiently depleted funds to
qualify for Medicaid. In effect, the conversation about
a funeral is really a conversation from the nursing home
that says “ We want to be sure that you have allocated sufficient
funds for end of life expenses that include a funeral-
especially considering you will likely be out of money
in x months”. This is part of the Medicaid planning process,
and thus a question on the application because it is
really a CMS directive first and NOT a selling tool for the funeral industry first.
So what happened?
Respectful of us all in funeral care- a funeral
is an “unsought” good vs a “sought” good that consumers actively want to purchase. This really then begs the questions: 1) Do you distinguish between consumer needs and
desires, and 2) how much is too much to pay for something
you don’t really want?
Is this a problem or opportunity for funeral service?
Unfortunately, senior healthcare providers share the
same consumer perception of the funeral industry as the
rest of the country- which is negative. Interestingly, healthcare is also driven by "functional or needs-based" systems, much like the funeral business has been "directed by the FTC and State Rules and Regs. The challenge is to go beyond what "we" are made to do, and re-assess what families, consumers, patients, residents would LIKE for us to be. The answer I am finding is that often it is the very opposite of what we have been doing.
Most unfortunate is that consumers have proven, better outcomes and experiences
when those segments of industry responsible for care work together. This is the foundation of the
Mayo Clinic model. The foundation of Enhancing PatientCare by Life Celebration redefines the “Care Team” to include all disciplines within nursing, hospice and funeral- but with re-defined roles.
The opportunity lies in those providers
that can transform themselves to add value to the industry
segments “upstream” – hospice, nursing homes, in-home
care providers, etc. Simply, we must convert our offerings
from “unsought” to a “highly sought after” offering which
I assure you can be done but only by truly understanding what your customer truly "values".
MBJ
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