The Senior Citizens Home Assistance Service will use money from the Campbell Enhancement Fund toward its transportation service.
“Our agency serves older adults in their homes,” SCHAS chief executive officer Tim Howell said. “We try to keep them in their homes as long as they can, keep them from entering a nursing home, with cooking services and cleaning services and personal care and bathing. This grant, however, though, because of COVID, we started a transportation service, and we were fortunate enough to get a vehicle here in Campbell County with help from the local government. And we are transporting older adults to doctor’s appointments, one-day surgeries, things like that.”
Accepting the award for SCHAS were Howell and Malinda Perry, who serves as the SCHAS Campbell County/Scott County director.
“If you’ve never had a one-day surgery, you’ve got to have somebody sitting out in the waiting room, waiting on you, so our caregivers can sit out there with them during the whole transportation piece of it,” Howell said to the South Campbell County Rotary Club on Tuesday. “We don’t just drop them off. We pick them up, take them, stay with them the whole time. They take them back home. If they need to eat after the surgery or something like that, we’re able to do that for them. So if you know any older adults that need some medical treatments and they haven’t been able to figure out how to get that or do that or get transported or it’s a burden on the family that lives far away, trying to get here and get them transported, we would love to help them, so have them give us a call. We appreciate you all for supporting us.”
The local SCHAS office is inside Woodson’s Mall.
For more information, call 423-566-3786.
