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Caledonia Fire Department offers free home safety checks, smoke detector replacements with new program


CALEDONIA — Joining at least two other Racine County fire departments, the Caledonia Fire Department has launched a mobile resource program focused on patients in an out-of-hospital environment.
The department is offering Mobile Integrated health care with Community Paramedics (MIH-CP) to people in Caledonia, Wind Point and North Bay, municipalities that the fire department normally serves. The program launched July 1.
The Caledonia program provides fall prevention education, medicine reconciliation, home safety checks, including smoke detector checks, and replacements. All of these services are free of charge for residents in the CFD service area.
Racine County fire departments with MIH-CP programs include South Shore Fire Department and the Racine Fire Department. According to Austin, Texas-based TMF Health Quality Institute, other MIH-CP programs in Wisconsin are operating in Milwaukee, West Allis, Madison, La Crosse and Green Bay. ....

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USI joins initiative to bolster nursing homes during pandemic - University of Southern Indiana


USI joins initiative to bolster nursing homes during pandemic
USI joins initiative to bolster nursing homes during pandemic
2/5/2021 | University Communications
Thirty-one nursing homes have enrolled in the University of Southern Indiana’s cohort in a state-wide effort to assist facilities in dealing with COVID-19 and its challenges. USI is part of the Indiana Nursing Home COVID-19 Action Network (NHCAN) Extension of Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO), which seeks to improve COVID-19 preparedness, safety and infection control.
More than 230 nursing homes from across Indiana are participating in the ECHO project, led by the Indiana University School of Medicine and Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health at IUPUI. In addition to USI, collaborators include the Regenstrief Institute, Parkview Health and the University of Indianapolis. The ECHO project is funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AH ....

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