Welcome to Precious Beginnings
Home Care!
Congratulations on your upcoming birth
experience! We know nothing compares
to the special joy parents feel when
they welcome a new child into the world!
Birth is nothing short of a miracle
and we believe families deserve special
attention through this experience.
Precious Beginnings Home Care is a service
designed to meet this need.
The Precious Beginnings Home Care Program
offers a safe and convenient alternative
to extended hospital maternity care.
What Is Precious Beginnings
Home Care?
Precious Beginnings Home Care Program
is an alternative to the traditional
length of maternity stay and is designed
to ease the transition from hospital
to home for both infant and mother.
What Services are offered by our staff?
- Skilled OB nursing care for both
mother and baby.
- Individual instruction related
to mother and baby needs.
- Assistance with feeding (lactation
consultant).
- Notification of physician immediately
with any significant findings from
the mother and baby assessment.
- Laboratory services.
- Assisting the family in helping
the infant adjust to the home environment.
Our Staff Makes Us Unique!
What makes our Home Care Program so
unique? We send specially trained OB
nurses to your home. She may be the
same nurse who taught your childbirth,
breastfeeding or child care class. She
may also be the nurse that took care
of you and your infant during your stay
on the Mother/Baby Unit or took care
of your infant in the Special Care
Nursery.
We have sixteen skilled nurses who all
have at least two years of experience
in the OB department. We are the only
hospital in Dayton with a Home Care
Program that uses its own OB nurses.
And we have several certified lactation
consultants on staff who can help with
home care visits.
How You Can Obtain A Precious
Beginnings Home Care Visit!
While you are in the hospital, a Precious
Beginnings Home Care representative
will give you an opportunity to ask
questions. Upon your consent a Precious
Beginnings Home Care visit may be scheduled.
We now have a grant through the Ohio
Department of Health, which enables Precious
Beginnings Home Care to do a visit for
mothers who reside in Montgomery County.
Your insurance provider will be contacted
with your eligibility regarding the
Precious Beginnings Home Care Program.
Precious Beginnings Home Care
History
In order to meet the needs of our expectant
families, Precious Beginnings Home Care
was created.
After intensive research including a
community assessment, state-wide and
national networking and workshop participation,
Kettering Medical Center developed a
customer-focused, cost-effective unit
based obstetrical home care program
dedicated to providing quality nursing
care.
Since its inception in March of 1994,
the program has grown in scope and numbers.
We have had positive reviews during
our state maternity licensure visits
and our JCAHO visits as well as continued
customer satisfaction feedback.
Our program has expanded to include
follow-up visits for our Level II Special
Care Nursery infants. High levels of
satisfaction from our physicians and
families have been achieved as well
as reducing length of stay when we have
been able to facilitate this transition
home by including this program.
Purchasing A Home Care Program
for your Hospital
Designated sections of the Precious
Beginnings Home Care Program manual
includes:
- Policies, Procedures, Practice Guidelines
- Forms
- Background/Research/Accreditation
- Marketing/Reimbursement/Brochure
- Job Descriptions and Home Care Nurse
Survival Packet
- Orientation - Home Care Nurse, Pediatrician/Obstetrician
Please contact the Precious Beginnings
Home Care Coordinator at (937)395-8448
in regards to the entire package and
which includes manual and 3 day visit.
