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The Butterfly Files June 2018 June Happenings ~
June is the 1st Official
Month of Summer
Dedication Ceremony of
The Franklin VNA & Hospice
Teuscher-Wilson
Hospice Garden
June 9
Spring Grief Support Group
June 6, 13, 20 & 27
Powerful Tools for Caregivers
6 week Program
Starts June 21
Foot Care & Blood
Pressure Clinics
See our calendar for dates/details
Franklin VNA & Hospice
Congratulates Deborah
Richardson on her certification for the National Alliance of
Wound Care and Ostomy
Deb has already been a strong part of our nursing team and we are pleased that she has taken the difficult and rewarding step to achieve this National ertification. Her new role as a Wound and Ostomy Care certified nurse will allow her to better care for the complicated wounds people within our community have, a more frequent issue now, with earlier releases from hospitals to homes. While we already have a strong partnership with our area wound clinics, having her in-house to further our expertise in wound care will be another valuable piece to our strong clinical team. Thank you, Deb, for all your hard work - and congratulations! Why are we so excited? Well, a recent study in the Journal of Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing showed that hospitals who employed specialty wound and ostomy care nurses had a low-er risk of hospital-acquired pressure injuries and a more than 50% reduction in the rate of the more serious stage 3 and 4 pressure injuries. The study showed that these nurses have been clinically proven to improve patient outcomes, heal wounds faster and re-duce severity of hospital-acquired pressure injuries. We are confi-dent that similar gains will be seen in home-based care settings where people have been determined to be well enough to be dis-charged to continue their wound care in the privacy and comfort of their own home.
Our mission is to provide quality Home Health Care, Hospice
and education to individuals and families in our communities
so that they may reach their highest level of independence.
Franklin VNA & Hospice wants to help you answer
the question … What is the differences between
Comfort Care, Palliative Care & Hospice Care?
When former First Lady Barbara Bush chose to seek comfort care measures rather
than further hospitalizations and curative measures, conversations and questions about what Comfort Care
entails arose. What exactly is Comfort Care? How is it different from Palliative Care or Hospice Care? How
should individuals and their families approach End of Life care decisions?
Comfort Care
A plan that is focused on symptom control and stress relief to provide quality to the end of life process
Can be provided at home with a care agency or by the staff of a long term care facility
Coverage of services are dependent on individual insurance plans.
Palliative Care
Care which is provided either with curative treatment or after treatment has stopped
both patient and family-centered
focused on relief of the stress and symptoms of a serious illness to improve quality of life.
An example of this is treating the nausea and fatigue for a patient with cancer, while they are continuing
to receive chemotherapy in an effort to cure that cancer
Hospice Care
Focuses on relieving the stress and symptoms of a terminal disease that is at a point when an individual no
longer wants to seek treatment
Provided by a Visiting Nurse Association certified as a Hospice provider or through a for-profit private Hos-
pice care group
can happen in the home, in a hospice house or in a long term care facility
Provides an Interdisciplinary team of professionals that may include
a physician nurse social worker allied therapists counselors
home health aides spiritual and grief support trained volunteers
Available to individuals eligible for Medicare, most private insurances, and Medicaid
Benefit can cover medication costs associated with your illness equipment such as a hospital bed or
oxygen, and pays for not only the nurse to visit you but also provides emotional, psycho-social and spiritual
care
Check out our digital version of this
newsletter on our website!
www.FranklinVNA.org Hospice Care
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 2
Spring Grief Sup-port Group Every Wednesday this month 2pm -4pm Please call for registration
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Blood Pressure Clinic
Belmont Senior Center 10:30am – 11:15am
Foot Care Clinic
Franklin VNA & Hospice Please Call for Appt.
Blood Pressure Clinic
Salisbury Senior Center 11:15am – 12:00pm
Hospice Garden
Opening
Ceremony
Franklin VNA &
Hospice
11am
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Drop-In Bereavement
Group Franklin VNA & Hospice 2pm-3:30pm Please call to register
Foot Care Clinic
Franklin VNA & Hospice Please Call for Appt.
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
Blood Pressure Clinic
Tilton Senior Center 11 Grange Rd, Tilton 10:30am – 11:30am
Foot Care Clinic
Tilton Senior Center 11 Grange Rd, Tilton Please Call for Appt
Blood Pressure Clinic
Northfield Com-munity Pines 61 Summer St. 11am – 12pm Powerful Tools for Caregivers
Please call to register
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Blood Pressure Clinic
Tripp Center Bessie Rowell Comm Center 10:30am – 11:30am
Foot Care Clinic
Franklin VNA & Hospice Please Call for Appt.
Franklin VNA & Hospice
75 Chestnut St
Franklin, NH 03235
934-3454
June 2018
Recipe from the kitchen of one of our staff members….
Blueberry Croissant Breakfast Bake Ingredients for 8 servings 1 tube crescent dough ¾ cup (75 g) blueberry, fresh or frozen 8 oz (225 g) cream cheese ⅔ cup (135 g) sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla ¼ cup (60 mL) milk
Preparation Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C.) In a mixing bowl beat cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla until creamy. Add eggs, and while beating slowly incorporate the milk until creamy. Set aside. Using cold crescent dough, roll up crescent rolls and curve into crescent shape. Place rolls in an ungreased 9x9 pan. Pour blueberries over the crescent rolls. Pour cream cheese mixture over rolls and blueberries. Bake at 350°F (175°C) for 35 minutes or until rolls have become golden brown. Top with powdered sugar. Enjoy!
SUDOKU Sudoku is easy to play and the rules are simple. Fill
in the blanks so that each row, each column and
each of the nine 3x3 grids contain one instance of
each of the numbers 1 through 9. Good luck!!!
We are pleases to offer our weekly
foot clinic.
Keep those toes happy for only $15!
Please call to schedule a time for the Franklin Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice Foot Clinic at 75 Chestnut Street in Franklin, NH. 934-3454
Once a month, every other month we also go to the Tilton Senior Center!
June 20th is our next visit there!
Looking for Ways to Help Support Franklin VNA & Hospice? Monetary Donations
Donations help us to give assistance to those who might not be able to access services and also help to reduce the shortfall be-tween health care reimbursements and the actual costs of providing services. All donations are tax-deductible. Some of the ways to donate: *General donations - your non-direct donation will be used to help provide care to patients in financial need *Fundraisers - There are a number of fundraisers throughout the year to support our programs, most particularly the Hospice program which relies on fundraisers for part of its revenue *Memorials - Remembering a loved one who has passed away is a wonderful tribute! All memorial donations are acknowl-edged to the family of the deceased, where appropriate *Bequests - In your will, you may designate the VNA to receive cash, land, pension funds, real estate and/or other assets from your estate.
Volunteer
Hospice volunteer
Read, talk to or just sit with patient
Run errands for patient
Provide respite for caregivers
Facilitate grief support groups (w/ training)
Provide Reiki, pet therapy
Help out at Hospice fundraisers
Non-Hospice volunteer
Facilitating community health education programs
Administrative and clerical help
Help to plan and staff special events
Help with fundraisers
Powerful Tools for Caregivers Program
Sponsored by Community Action Program Belknap-Merrimack Counties, Inc.
Franklin VNA & Hospice, in partnership with ServiceLink is hosting this FREE 6 week class. Join us every
Thursday from June 21st through July 26th from 2:00pm - 3:30pm at the Franklin VNA & Hospice at 75
Chestnut Street in Franklin, NH. Pre-registration required.
Powerful Tools for Caregivers is a class series designed to help caregivers take better care of themselves
while caring for a family member or friend. In this class caregivers develop a wealth of self-care tools to:
Reduce personal stress
Change negative self-talk
Deal with difficult feelings
Communicate more effectively in challenging situations
Recognize the messages in their emotions
Make tough caregiver decisions
Communicate their needs to family members/healthcare/service providers
Class participants will also receive a copy of The Caregiver Helpbook, developed specifically for the class.
Please call Jane or Amy at 228-6625 by Wednesday June 13, 2018 to register for this FREE class.
Tick Season has begun
Ticks are repulsive disease carriers and we all hate them, here’s what to do…
* First, avoid tick-infested areas such as overgrown grass, brush, and leaf litter and keep your lawn short
and leaf-free so they have fewer places to hide.
* Next, chemical warfare: Use an insect repellent containing DEET or oil of lemon eucalyptus every time
you spend time outdoors
* Then, wear protective clothing (long pants and long sleeves) to keep ticks off skin. This helps decrease
your sun exposure also, and you’re already wearing your sun block daily, right?
* Oh, the tick check! Do daily tick checks on yourself, family members, and pets after being outdoors.
Check between toes, all skin creases and on the scalp.
* Now, if one of those tiny blood-sucking critters does bite you and is imbedded in the skin, use fine-
tipped tweezers to grasp the tick as close to the skin’s surface as possible or if none are available use your
fingernails. Pull upward with steady, even pressure. You don’t want to squeeze them or tear the body off
the head.
* After removing the tick, thoroughly clean the bite area and your hands with rubbing alcohol, an iodine
scrub, or soap and water. If you can, trap the tick between some clear tape to keep it from escaping and
make identifying it easier.
* Last, speak with your doctor or other healthcare provider if you are bitten by a tick or if you notice a
large bull’s-eye rash anywhere on you. Isn’t it good you have that tape-trapped tick to bring with you?
Community Day Success on Saturday the 12th
The 14th annual Franklin Community Day celebration was full of great energy and lots of local support. In addi-tion to the Franklin Fire Department and the local Boy Scout Troop the parade featured the cast of Seussical the Musical from the Franklin Opera House, Knights of Columbus and the Franklin VNA & Hospice team.
Candy, sunglasses and a variety of fun treats were tossed for the eager onlookers to pick up and enjoy all to the tunes of the high school band and the enthusiastic singing of the Opera House singers which made for an enjoyable parade leading down to Odell Park.
Post-parade craft tables, games and information tables abounded as people of all ages took advantage of the food, wonderful hand crafted items and friendly information providers scattered all over the park. Franklin VNA & Hospice provided face painting and fun free items at the booth for anyone interested in learning about home care or hospice, while the Animal Shelter had a variety of pet themed bow ties and fun items for sale to support the shelter.
Though the day was cool several brave souls manned the dunking booth, and White Tiger Karate was also on hand to provide fascinating demonstrations with budding martial arts artists of all ages.
Community Day is not just about the balloons and fried dough though. These local celebrations help to ce-ment the main street businesses, the local organizations and the community together. Strong social ties and supports have been shown to contribute to better health and longevity in its community members and they are a visible demonstration of who is really invested in a community. Kudos to all who attended as parade members, community tables and guests. This support follows perfectly with this year’s theme of “Franklin Recreates and Recreates itself as a Recreational Destination.”
The Franklin VNA & Hospice
Teuscher-Wilson
Hospice Garden
Our clean up in preparation of our Dedication Ceremony on June 9, 2018 went smoothly
thanks to our many volunteers! Thank you to the Winnisquam Agricultural Students and every-
one that came out to help us! We are looking forward to the community seeing all of your
hard work and honor their loved ones!
Franklin VNA & Hospice wants you to take a walk. But not just any walk and not in just any
place. At 11 AM we will dedicate and open a long-awaited garden and memorial patio, the
Teuscher-Wilson Hospice Garden. We invite you to walk the path, visit the patio laid with memo-
rial bricks and meet many of the dedicated people who brought the garden to life.
Barbara Normandin, Executive Director, is proud to have a robust list of donors to mention.
"Watts Water Technologies has truly been wonderful as our Founding Donor. We received dona-
tions in all sizes, from plants our employees grew to the huge number of volunteer hours from the
Winnisquam Agricultural Students but without Watts and the Franklin Elks Lodge we could never
have created the kind of space we have."
The garden is located behind the 75 Chestnut Street VNA building. It will be open to all for walk-
ing, relaxing, and remembering.
Normandin explains, "Nothing would please me more than being able to welcome a crowd to
our garden and then seeing those people visit it again and again. We are the VNA of our com-
munity and we are connected to them in so many ways already. This garden is simply another
invitation for them to keep connecting with us."
The dedication ceremony will take place June 9th at 11 AM - all are welcome!
Proudly servicing our community since 1945
Our Service Area
75 Chestnut Street * Franklin, NH 03235
Phone: 603-934-3454 * Fax: 603-934-2222
Referral Fax Line: 603-934-1234
www.FranklinVNA.org
FRANKLIN VNA SCORES HIGHEST RATING IN PATIENT CARE
We are pleased to announce the most recent Home Health Compare survey results show a 5-star rating in
patient satisfaction for the agency, the highest rating available! This is also the highest rating of any Lakes
Region VNA. In addition, Franklin VNA’s rating for wound care is higher than both the national average and
the average for the state of New Hampshire.
Home Health Compare was established by Medicare as a tool for consumers to use when choosing a home
health care provider to be a source of authoritative information on provider quality. The Home Health Con-
sumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HHCAHPS) is a national survey that asks patients
about their recent experiences with a home health agency. All Medicare-certified VNAs must use the
HHCAHPS survey for their Medicare patients. These survey results form the basis of the Home Health Com-
pare data.
The results from the most recent HHCAHPS survey, which cover the entire calendar year of 2016, show
very high patient satisfaction results for Franklin VNA. The HHCAHPS scores on the following categories:
Professionalism of VNA staff
Communication between patient and VNA staff
Discussion of medication, pain and home safety
Overall care rating of VNA staff
Patient would recommend this agency to family/friends
“We are very pleased with these results, which come as a result of hard work by our staff to ensure that each
patient they see gets the best care we can possibly give. This sometimes requires going that extra mile and our
staff will do that every time.” said Barbara Normandin, Executive Director of Franklin VNA. She continues,
“We are a small agency and, as such, we are able to collaborate with each other, combining the expertise of
several disciplines, easily and seamlessly to make sure that our patients get coordinated and compassionate
care. We care for the whole patient and their family/caregivers.”