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Post Ike operation and activities Sunday Sept 21, 11:13pm While Sigma Health Care has relocated its main operation and administrative offices from its Galveston Island location on Tremont Street to League City, we were able to provide home health services including nursing services to our patients on Galveston Island since Tuesday September 16. Staring Monday September 22, 2008 we are staffed to a point we will be able to handle new patients with daily and twice a day nursing visits such as insulin injections, infusion therapy, wound care, as well as regular nursing visits for other acute and chronic cases. A team of Sigma staff have located and visited our patients who evacuated to several Houston, Austin and San Antonio areas and is conducting nursing visits for those patients who are in need for continuous care. We are providing bedside PT/INR testing for patients on, blood thinner, Coumadin® and we are able to collect blood specimens and send to operating laboratories in the Houston area. In our disease management program, we are providing remote monitoring assessment for patients with heart failure, diabetes and chronic pulmonary disease utilizing cell phones technology. Our occupational therapists have been conducting home safety evaluation for patients in Galveston, Brazoria and Harris counties including for those who did not evacuate Galveston Island. Starting Wednesday September, 24 we will be implementing a home safety evaluation program for seniors who are coming back to the island. Our program will include a full assessment to the home and its relation to health and activities of daily living along with instructions and teaching on health safety and new techniques to live with the new situation until their housing recovery is complete. Sigma Health care will also be able to arrange for new Medical equipment for those patients who have lost their equipment during the hurricane. To Contact Sigma Health Care, call the following numbers:: 409-763-6800 713-947-2273 or toll free: 800-246-6614 ______________________________ Tuesday Sept 16, 11:13pm Although our payroll department worked hard until 2:00am on Wednesday night, Sept 10 th to move up payday from Friday, in preparation for hurricane Ike, we realized that some paychecks have not been picked up by some employees. Paychecks are now available in our temporary location in League City. Employees who want their paychecks to be mailed to them should contact our business and payroll office at 409-763-6800 option (4). ______________________________ Tuesday Sept 16, 7:00am In an effort to resume our patient care in the aftermath of hurricane Ike, and as the recovery efforts continue. Sigma health care has placed fully functional temporary administrative offices in League City. We are resuming Care for patients in Harris, Brazoria, and Galveston counties, except those still on Galveston Island and Bolivar peninsula, as early as Wednesday September 17. We are arranging for care for those patients re located in both Austin and San Antonio areas. We are continuing the effort to arrange for other areas and wherever our patients are located. We urge our patients to contact us from their locations, wherever they are, so we can arrange for continuing their care as soon as possible. Our phone and fax numbers as they were on Galveston Island have not changed and now have been reconnected successfully. ______________________________ Sunday Sept 14, 4:30pm In the aftermath of Hurricane Ike, Sigma Health Care continues to be on emergency status. We are urging employees to call our main number 409-763-6800 or our hotline 877-639-8905 to report on their whereabouts. Scheduled patients' visits on Monday Sept. 15 are cancelled as of now. We are hoping to resume our administrative operation from a location outside the Island as early as Tuesday Sept. 16. All patients returning to the Island and Galveston County are asked to call our hotline and after listening to the announcement to leave a message on the administrator’s mail box to mention their name, contact number, and their current whereabouts. We will keep you updated as restoration of our operation takes place. ______________________________
Sigma Health Care has committed to serving patients in Galveston Harris and Brazoria Counties for the past 10 years. Sigma is owned and operated by health care professionals who have committed to patient care as well as health care education for several years. With patient focused staff and administration, we are able to provide our community with the quality home health care services they expect and deserve. We analyze the needs of our patients' population and reform our operational practice accordingly. Our understanding to home care has gone beyond the scope of business practices to focus on the real element for care, "the patient". At Sigma Health Care, we maintain a dedicated Quality Improvement Program that was designed to systematically measure and assess outcomes in order to effectively meet the patient's needs. We employ and train expert health care professionals to provide the specialty care we offer. We also maintain an educational hotline to the community to educate patients, caregivers and health care providers to the continuous changes, rules and regulations of home health care services. Our highly qualified field and office staff applies the agency's philosophy of practice. We maintain continuity of care for our patients by in-office team leaders and case managers along with well-trained field clinicians who combine professionalism with hi-tech nursing and rehabilitation practice. Every team acquires complete knowledge about their patients and their needs. Case managers centralize communication with every team member participating in the patient care as well as the patient physician, directing and redirecting the patient plan of treatment to the best outcome of the patient's care. We focus on the big picture of the patient as well as every little detail and we ensure that the plan of care is working for every patient and his/her caregiver. Please feel free to tour our web site to know more about what we can offer and let us know how we can adjust to your needs. |
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