SOAR TO SUCCESS / Feature Article Isoken Ogbomo, is the founder of Complete Health Services, a company born out of Ogbomo’s concern for the geriatric population in nursing homes, where she worked as a nurse practitioner. She wanted to provide the elderly with a better quality of life and the ability to age in place with dignity. Isoken was born in Nigeria and originally came to the United States with her husband 22 years ago. She earned a bachelor’s degree but went back to school to become a Family Nurse Practitioner. She has achieved the ‘American Dream.’ Being an immigrant in a new country, she first became educated and then grew a successful business, all the while helping older Americans receive the higher standard of care they deserve. She wanted the focus of her new endeavor to help the elderly keep their dignity and maintain a high standard of life. Something that was not happening in many retirement and nursing homes. In-Home Caregivers, the DBA for her company Complete Health Services, was born to provide in-home caregiving in Illinois. Isoken is very proud of what her company has been able to provide for our aging population and especially happy with the company’s geriatric scientific care post-hospital rehabilitation program. Due to shortened stays (demanded by insurance companies) in an expensive hospital a study completed in 2020 showed that 41.4 percent of elderly Americans discharged from a hospital, required readmittance for further treatment within seven days. “That is a significantly high number. I know there are multiple reasons why people return to the hospital, but specifically for the geriatric population, there is fragmentation in the healthcare system.” In most instances when an older person is discharged from the hospital, they are passed over to Medicare therapy. Medicare therapists will only be in the home for a few sessions over a four to six weeks period following a hospital stay. There are one hundred and sixty hours in a week and the Medicare therapist will spend less than one percent of the time with the patient. They instruct the patient about what exercises they need to be doing and then leave them alone to do the therapy on their own. There is no way the patient can recover in a timely manner through “in home care therapy” alone so the patient will medically decline and get readmitted to the hospital while the family
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