In turn, the Medical Center is looking at expanding the current sharing arrangements with local and Department of Defense health care providers through the sale of additional clinical services such as laboratory analysis, rehabilitation medicine and dental examinations. The program is designed to provide support, including activities of daily living care, to enable patients to remain in their homes. A variety of activities are offered including exercise, recreation, patient education and off-station trips. Nursing services consist of monitoring medical conditions, accuchecks and vital signs. Medications are not administered but patients bring their meds and staff remind them when it is time to take them.
Clinic appointments are incorporated into the daily schedule and meal service is provided.
Patients must not be assaultive or disruptive and live within a one-hour radius of the medical center. The program is a win-win. Patients win because they can continue to live in the community and caregivers win because their day is freed up for other activities such as full or part-time employment. A partnership agreement was established with the F.F. Thompson Hospital whereby that community hospital will provide emergency inpatient medical care, mammography and clinical autopsies, and the medical center will provide therapeutic pool time and chaplain mentoring. The Medical Center has recently activated a part-time Community Based Outpatient Clinic in Livingston County , through a cooperative sharing of facility resources by the Livingston County Department of Health.