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How to sign up for Meals on Wheels

How to sign up for Meals on Wheels

Meals on Wheels delivers food on a donation-only basis to persons living in Whatcom or San Juan counties. Homebound seniors and their spouses, unpaid caregivers and disabled dependents are eligible to receive seven nutritionally balanced meals per week.

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Ease your mind with advance care planning

Ease your mind with advance care planning

When the end of a loved one’s life approaches, you don’t want to be focusing on paperwork, bills and other mundane tasks.

However, there is much that needs to be done — POLST forms, wills, funeral planning, etc.

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Catastrophic staffing challenges in long-term care, help needed

Catastrophic staffing challenges in long-term care, help needed

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, the staffing level at Christian Health Care Center has plummeted nearly 30%, from 260 to 190. Despite continual wage increases, numerous vaccination exemptions and robust recruitment efforts, CHCC has not been able to rebuild staffing to pre-pandemic levels.

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Nursing home crisis persists due to staff shortages

Nursing home crisis persists due to staff shortages

One factor in the ongoing nursing home crisis is that inflation and wage increases have greatly increased costs, but Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement rates have remained flat. The resulting squeeze has made it difficult for facilities like CHCC to remain solvent and hire the workers needed.

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How to choose a skilled nursing facility

How to choose a skilled nursing facility

There are many things to consider when choosing a skilled nursing facility for a spouse, parent, grandparent or even a friend/neighbor. Here are 5 tips to keep in mind as you navigate through the process: 1.)  Is the eldercare facility close to home so friends and...

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A mighty calling in long-term care

A mighty calling in long-term care

Tonja Myers works to keep residents safe while weathering budget cuts, staffing losses by Heather Lea in Business Pulse magazine This article was published in the March/April issue of Business Pulse. Like many health care leaders, Christian Health Care Center’s Tonja...

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