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A Growing Umbrella of Care
In 2013-14, we continued expanding our s Continued to serve more seniors with
programs and services, increasing our reach with compassionate care through Skirball
renewed dedication to building the Jewish Home Hospice. Honored and remembered those
as a destination for excellence in convenient, in our community who are no longer with
coordinated, and comprehensive senior care. This us by holding our annual memorial service –
year, we: enabling loved ones of those served by Skirball
Hospice to share memories of those who have
s Strengthened Connections to Care, our passed and to celebrate their remarkable lives.
transformative approach to senior care that
is both exceptional and easy to access. With s Set new standards of excellence with our Ida
one phone call, seniors and their loved ones Kayne Transitional Care Unit (TCU), helping
connect directly to the full continuum of growing numbers of seniors to transition
Jewish Home programmatic offerings. We also successfully back to daily life after an illness,
serve as a resource for callers from outside our injury, medical procedure, or hospital stay.
service area, offering advice and assistance to
help address their individual needs. s Enhanced our services at the Auerbach
Geriatric Psychiatry Unit, redefining state-
s Steadily increased the census in the Brandman of-the-art short-term geriatric psychiatric care.
Centers for Senior Care (BCSC), a Program This year, utilizing an interdisciplinary team
of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) – treatment approach, our specialized geriatric
providing over 100 seniors the help they need staff continued to reduce seniors’ symptoms
to live safely in their own homes. and treat their underlying conditions in a calm
and nurturing environment.
s Opened Jewish Home Care Services, our
home health agency that empowers seniors s Broke ground on the Gonda Healthy Aging
to recover at home from a hospital visit or Westside Campus. Sitting on two and a half
medical treatment by providing therapies, acres of conveniently located Westside real
nursing care, and other professional services. estate in Playa Vista, the new campus will serve
as the hub of a network of comprehensive
s Successfully implemented Care Transitions, a senior care services, from apartments for
program designed to improve coordination independent and assisted living to priority
of services to Medicare patients following access to skilled nursing care.
hospital discharge, and reducing hospital
readmission rates from 22% to less than 15%.
s Broadened the reach of the Jewish Home
Center for Palliative Medicine, which provides
pain and symptom management for adults
with serious, chronic, or life-limiting illnesses.
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