Episode 20 Advanced Health Care

Living Care Radio Episodes

On this, the twentieth episode of Living Care Radio, host Darol Tuttle interviews Lynessa Tinglum and Julianne Ferguson from Advanced Health Care. Advanced Health Care began in 1984 when Ron Bode was working as a nursing home administrator and felt led to begin a new venture in private duty home care. He observed nursing home residents desperately wanting to return to their own homes, but without the support they needed to live independently and safely. While continuing to run the nursing home and raise a family of four children, Ron and his wife Pat opened Advanced Health Care and trusted that God would provide. Within three years, Ron was able to leave the nursing home business and concentrate solely on Advanced Health Care. Under Ron and Pat’s leadership, Advanced Health Care has grown and prospered, never straying from its original goal of providing a safe and reliable alternative in long-term care. During the show, Darol paints a mental picture of a person as he or she ages walking down a long hallway. At the end of the hall, there are two doors: a blue door and a red door. The blue door represent the choice of proactive planning, i.e., looking ahead and taking the steps necessary to plan for aging and the associated costs of long term care. The red door represents crisis, i.e., those people who choose to wait and see what happens and then are left in a crisis as they begin to pay more per month for care than they make in income. Listen as Julie Ferguson describes the steps her company takes as people enter the either the red or blue door. She describes that home care and even nursing care at home can be taken before a crisis is reached and that this reduces the risk of a medical or financial emergency later.