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Nayar News: September 2022 Issue
Pulmonary Fibrosis Awareness Month
September is Pulmonary fibrosis awareness month. Pulmonary fibrosis is a lung disease that occurs when lung tissue becomes damaged and scarred. This thickened, stiff tissue makes it more difficult for your lungs to work correctly. As pulmonary fibrosis worsens, you become progressively more short of breath.
Signs and symptoms of pulmonary fibrosis may include:
• Shortness of breath (dyspnea)
• A dry cough
• Fatigue
• Unexplained weight loss
• Aching muscles and joints
• Widening & rounding of fingertips or toes
Learn more at www.pulmonaryfibrosis.org.
Spotlight: Kendra Coleman, Home Health Aide Hospice
Kendra came to Nayar Hospice Care after teaching Head Start in her local school district. She had experienced her own losses, making hospice something she felt called to do. Kendra is loved by all of her patients and their family members. She consistently goes above and beyond to make her patients feel loved and cherished. Her kindness and warmth are unmatched. The care she provides to hospice patients is compassionate and loving, and she has an extraordinary way with her patients. She is a blessing to everyone she meets, cares for, and is always willing to go the extra mile.
Patient-Driven Care
When patients begin care with Nayar Health Care’s Hospice Division, our primary focus is their care and comfort. Everything our team does is patient-driven. Together with the patient’s loved ones and family members, patients are made comfortable and peaceful for the rest of their life. Nayar Hospice Care supports the patient’s emotional, social, and spiritual needs and medical conditions as part of treating the whole person. Our Hospice team includes Chaplain, Social Workers, RNs, and LPNs. All of which organize and work together for the patient’s benefit.
To Our Patient’s Families
Our medical specialists care about you & your family’s health. At Nayar Health Care, we understand what it is like to feel stressed about your loved ones and their care. We realize that you have many demands on your time and need to know the quality of care provided to your loved one at any given time. We want you to maximize the quality of time you spend talking to your loved one. Those precious conversations should be about the beautiful things in life, not what their health care provider did last week. Nayar Health Care built a portal system for families to make this happen. First, we get approval from your loved one to log in. You will be able to see the notes of the person who visited your loved one — their title and a description of their clinical assessment and medication reassessment. You can log on to this anytime from anywhere you have internet. You will also have an option to leave a message for the clinician to call you if you have any questions.
Out In Our Community
Marcella provided Root Beer floats for our home health and hospice referral partners at Bowling Green Health & Rehabilitation Center.
Fall Faves: No Bake Peanut Butter Cookies
Healthy After School Snacks
INGREDIENTS
- ⅔ cup unsalted natural creamy peanut butter
- ½ cup maple syrup
- 2 tablespoons melted coconut oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Heaping ½ teaspoon sea salt
- 2½ cups whole rolled oats
- ¼ cup mini chocolate chips
INSTRUCTIONS
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set it aside.
- In a medium bowl, stir together the peanut butter, maple syrup, coconut oil, vanilla, and salt until smooth. Add the oats and chocolate chips and stir until combined. Use a 2-tablespoon cookie scoop to portion the dough. Use your hands to form into balls and place them on the baking sheet, then flatten them into disks with your fingers (the disks will become more cohesive as they chill). Chill overnight to allow the cookies to firm up.
(Source: loveandlemons.com)
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Money Talks
While many companies are slashing budgets as a result of rising expenses, Nayar Health Care just gave their employees a raise.
[Henrico, Virginia]: In light of current events and the economic climate of our country, it has not been sitting well with A K Nayar, president & CEO of Nayar Health Care, that everyone is going through hardships to no fault of their own. Inflation has caused an undue burden on all of us. Nayar stated, “It saddens me when I hear stories of how my employees are altering their lives to make due. Things are becoming so expensive; I recently heard one of my employees say, ‘we used to go out for dinner once a week, but with everything getting so expensive, now we go out only once a month.’ Or the story from another employee saying, ‘my boy wants to play travel baseball, but we can’t this year because travel expenses, from gas to lodging, have gotten way too high.’ Trying to get back to normal after dealing with COVID for over two years, then coping with astronomical prices for our everyday essentials, gives us very little hope of seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.”
Nayar went on to reflect on the Nayar Health Care staff. “I genuinely believe in what we do and our staff! They have all worked hard over the past years, and while corporate America is focused on their profit, I believe that the employees make our company great. It is evident by what our staff has accomplished.”
Nayar Health Care has decided to take care of its employees above corporate profit shares. The leadership team at NHC intends to set an example and precedent among the health care industry in Virginia—to take care of the people first. Corporate philosophy has to depart from the adage that the rich keep getting richer and needs to embrace, do unto others, as you would have done to yourself. Fiscal responsibility has got to balance with employee wellbeing. On June 7th Nayar Health Care announced that all employees, excluding management, will be receiving a 5% increase in pay effective 6/13/2022. The company hopes this will provide relief from the strain of inflation.
A K Nayar says of this ‘I now challenge other health care companies to match me – better yet, try and out due me with your next salary increase. We can do better as an industry. CEOs and CFOs are reading this that have the power to make positive change in our community — let’s shift where the dollars go so they land back on the tables of restaurants in our community or so the families can invest in their children’s passions. Money talks; let’s make sure it says something we want to hear!”
About Nayar Health Care: Nayar Health Care and Nayar Hospice are privately owned and operated Skilled Home Health and Hospice providers. Based out of Henrico, Virginia, NHC serves the population of central Virginia and the surrounding regions’ from satellite offices in Bedford and Fredericksburg. Our clinicians go to our patient’s homes, assisting them with the skilled care and therapies needed to keep them in the comfort of their own homes. For more information, visit www.NHC.life.
April 2022
Nayar Health Care / Nayar Hospice
Nayar Health Care Headquarters Groundbreaking Ceremony!
We are proud to announce the construction of our new corporate building in Ashland, VA! The NHC team members, along with Dr. & Mrs. Brehmer (who referred Nayar Health Care to the first patient in 2016!), Brent Graves, owner of Conquest, Moncure, & Dunn, Inc., and Eddie McCall, Senior VP at United Bank, joined us for this Earth Day celebration! The building is scheduled to be completed in December of 2022.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 2021
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Nayar Health Care & Nayar Hospice Awarded BBB A+ Accreditation
April 2021- Nayar Healthcare., located in Henrico, VA, announced today that it met the demanding Standards of Trust required for Accreditation by the Better Business Bureau serving Central Virginia and is now a BBB Accredited Business.
“Accreditation by the Better Business Bureau demonstrates that licensed the business has passed multiple steps of reviews to earn that Accredited Business standing,” said BBB serving Central Virginia President & CEO, Barry N. Moore. “It truly sets them apart from all the rest, and the public knows it too,” Moore added.
BBB Accreditation means this business has passed 38 individual requirements within all eight BBB Standards of Trust and that this business also contractually agrees to abide by all Standards consistently: Build Trust, Advertise Honestly, Tell the Truth, Be Transparent, Honor Promises, Be Responsive, Embody Integrity, and Safeguard Privacy.
BBB’s Accredited Business Seal is a powerful visual reminder to all consumers and other businesses that “this business has earned a high status of Trustworthiness.”
About BBB: BBB serving Central Virginia serves Richmond, the Tri-Cities, Charlottesville, and Fredericksburg, as well as 42 surrounding counties from Fauquier to Mecklenburg and Northumberland to Amherst. The nonprofit organization was established in 1954 to advance responsible, honest, and ethical business practices and to promote customer confidence through the self-regulation of business. Core services of BBB include business profiles, dispute resolution, truth-in-advertising, scam awareness, consumer and business education, and charity review.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 1-25-2021
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Legacy of a Lifetime
[Henrico, Virginia]:
January 2021 has brought with it many new beginnings, and at Nayar Health Care and Nayar Hospice, we are pleased to be seeing our New Year’s resolutions coming in to focus. We are now fully operational with a very unique project for our hospice families. Nayar Hospice is celebrating lives lived and legacies created with the “Legacy of a Lifetime” project.
This compassionate project began in 2020 when A K Nayar, President & CEO of Nayar Health Care and Nayar Hospice, along with Margarete Jeffers, a Social Worker at Nayar Hospice, shared a dream of creating a book for every hospice patient. They both saw the need for their patient’s legacy to live on and be known by their families. Now in 2021 ‘The Legacy of a Lifetime’ project has been born. This is a custom memoir book, specially written and curated by the team at Nayar Hospice. “It is a blessing for the next generation,” recounts Margarete Jeffers.
Though it is a delicate situation when a patient enters hospice, Nayar Hospice approaches every story with care, and the team writes about the person to honor their individual account. A K Nayar said the goal is to “…recognize the lives people have lived and the memories they have from throughout a lifetime”.
The process begins with an interview of the patient. It helps them to reflect and remember. The legacy book is about preserving memories and stories so that we may stand on our ancestors’ shoulders, knowing our roots and how a family’s loved one grew to be the people they were.
Every new Nayar Hospice patient gets a Legacy Book. Every book is different and beautifully unique to the individual. The Legacy Book details their life journey from birthplace and childhood to marriages, careers, interests, and what they want their families to remember most. Much research goes into these stories to ensure that the story is accurate and captures their story. In its completion, the final Legacy Book captures their personality and lives. It is custom made to be of the highest quality with ostrich leather covers from Canada. “We want it to be honest and as respectful as possible.” said A K Nayar, “It is an honor for us to give to the family.”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 7-1-2020
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There are caregivers, and then there are life-givers.
Kelly, Hospice Case Manager for Nayar Hospice, is a real example of someone who looks not only to heal but to help! She sets the standard that in-home hospice care encompasses the physical well-being of the patient and their living environment.
When Kelly was first assigned to a new hospice patient in King and Queen County, she expected to help a man transition from a nursing home to living at home. The patient, who needs a wheelchair, was returning to a mobile home with missing floor tiles, holes in the wall, and worst of all – no running water. He would be living there with his son now, his primary caregiver. However, the son also has limited mobility as a result of a traumatic brain injury. The pair were collecting rainwater and using a hot plate to heat it.
Kelly has been caring for hospice patients for the past seven years of her twenty-year career. She has seen many living conditions that are less than desirable, but this one was one of the worst. Kelly felt compelled to do something! She started by setting up a personal Facebook donation page, asking friends and family to contribute. She raised enough money to start buying supplies to help the family!
The mobile home had no furniture. The son would load his father into the car and drive around just so they could sit comfortably for a little while each day. With the money raised, Kelly was able to get supplies to make some upgrades to the home. Through generous donations from complete strangers, the family was able to have a new sofa and recliner. Employees of Nayar Health Care took of their time to pick up the furniture and deliver to the home. Kelly was able to install new flooring, paint walls, and even found a generous plumber to donate his time to get the family running water!
Now the family can relax in their home. “They have a phenomenal aid, Janice, there helping them with their needs,” Kelly said. Kelly is still donating her own time to help this father and son. She does their laundry and even spent an entire day cleaning the refrigerator to make sure it was suitable for healthy meals. Kelly has also has found kitchen cabinets and countertops to put in and is looking for help to get that done!
Kelly tells us, “Sometimes you come across living conditions that are not ideal. But these gentlemen were willing to accept the help. They needed help. I felt drawn to this family and feel like I’ve adopted them!”
The best-case scenario would be that this father and son could have a new trailer. For now, they’re doing the best they can. The aids and caregivers of Nayar Health Care and Nayar Hospice have donated household supplies, clothing, and, most importantly—time.
It’s amazing where you’ll find a need. The difference here is that someone saw a need and didn’t wait for somebody else to fix it. Kelly and the other hospice staff took action and made positive change happen! Through the generosity of many people, this father and son live a more comfortable life where they can focus on health and recovery together.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 6-24-2020
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ABCD Award
Congratulations to Dr. Kristyn Archbald, DPT, CLT of Nayar Health Care – Richmond, for receiving the ABCD Award (Above and Beyond the Call of Duty).
Krystin joined the NHC team over 6 months ago and has been instrumental in starting the first #Lymphedema program for our patients. She is always very approachable and is a great patient advocate. Dr. Archbald has been and continues to be a great mentor and supervisor to her fellow therapists at NHC and is always addressing any concerns they may have in the field.
We wish Kristin a very successful future at NHC!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 6-3-2020
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Awarding of the Inaugural NHC Flagship Executive Car
[Henrico, Virginia]:
Most heartfelt congratulations to Crystal Stewart, RN Case Manager at Nayar Health Care – Richmond, for receiving the inaugural NHC Flagship Executive Car.
Crystal met the following criteria set for our care team members to earn a Flagship Executive Car:
- Minimum tenure of 6 months
- Exceeding their call-of-duty
- High patient satisfaction scores
- Excellent documentation
When it comes to job performance, Crystal has gone above and beyond! It is reflected through accolades from within our community. From patients and physicians alike, all echoing the excellent care Crystal provides.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 4-16-2020
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Local Church’s Gift to Nayar Health Care Supports COVID-19 Response Efforts
[Henrico, Virginia]: Nayar Health Care was the recipient of a generous donation from Presbytery of the James, a Presbyterian Church in Richmond, VA. The organization gave a welcome financial gift to help NHC with the purchasing of supplies for treating our patients, specifically those with COVID-19. These funds will be used for PPE equipment including N95 masks, and Nayar Hospice Library books to aid with grief and counseling.
A special thank you to Gina Maio, an ordained Presbyterian minister and Chaplin at Nayar Hospice, as well as Fred Holbrook, for facilitating this goodwill.
Our team is very grateful for the generosity of Presbytery of the James. We will “pay it forward” — through compassionate care to our patients and their families!
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About Nayar Health Care: NHC is a privately owned and operated Skilled Home Health and Hospice provider. Based out of Henrico, Virginia, NHC serves the population of central Virginia and the surrounding regions. Our clinicians go to our patient’s homes, assisting them with the skilled care and therapies needed to keep them in the comfort of their own homes.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 3-23-2020
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(804) 330-5433
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Local Business Owner Donates His Salary to Boost Up His Employees
Vowing Not To Lay Anyone Off In 2020
[Henrico, Virginia]: The world is a different place than it was two weeks ago when A K Nayar, president & CEO of Nayar Health Care, boarded a plane for India. Traveling abroad to visit his aging parents, Nayar could not have speculated the unrest and social uncertainty that would await his return to the states—arriving Saturday at Dulles International Airport in DC, Nayar emerged from customs without a temperature. Still, his resolve to take care of his employees at a fever-pitch. While on the trip, he gained a worldly perspective on the pandemic we are all dealing with locally. Nayar now sees this as an opportunity to give back, support his employees, set an example for other business owners, and make a real difference.
The CEO is making three significant corporate policy changes, effective immediately.
One, regardless of their tenure or status (Part-time or Full-Time) Nayar will be donating a portion of his annual salary to give each of his employees $500 extra in their next paycheck. He hopes that this will allow them to stock up on groceries, pay for extra child care, or fulfill other necessities.
Two, for the rest of 2020, Nayar Health Care will not layoff any of its employees. Nayar does not want his employees to worry about the status of their position as the world adjusts to this “new normal.” He wants them to be able to focus on the care of their patients and have their minds in the right place to offer comfort and support to the community.
And third, Nayar will be suspending the 90-day policy to be able to use PTO. Effective immediately, all employees of Nayar Health Care will be able to take the time they need to care for their families and loved ones. Families come first.
A K Nayar stated, “2020 has landed Home Health agencies around the country with a tremendous financial setback, and almost every home health agency has seen a significant reduction in reimbursement in the first quarter. This, coupled with the pandemic of COVID-19, is going to cause unrest in the community regardless of the industry. It is time for us to unite as a force to fight this, keep our loved ones safe, and not let profits be at the forefront of our businesses. As a locally owned organization, we want our employees and our patients that we take care of day in and day out, to know we will do everything in our power to ensure their safety and welfare in such difficult times. I urge everyone to stay safe and not take this pandemic lightly so we can come out of it stronger than ever before. “
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About Nayar Health Care: NHC is a privately owned and operated Skilled Home Health and Hospice provider. Based out of Henrico, Virginia, NHC serves the population of central Virginia and the surrounding regions. Our clinicians go to our patient’s homes, assisting them with the skilled care and therapies needed to keep them in the comfort of their own homes.