Debbie Johnston
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And of course, we have a corporate run, which I could not live without.
A corporate run of folks that manage offices.
Yeah, because it's a lot of people coming out of the pink house.
1988.
I'm as old as the hills.
You're my new best friend.
We probably have 500 patients and I think I'm being conservative.
every in the situation and we work hard to tailor make what you need some people only need a bath and that's all they need got it so we send somebody in for two hours a day some people only need a ride home from the hospital so that's what we do we have a 69 special where we come to the hospital pick you up take you by the pharmacy set you up in your home and make sure everything's good and you're good and then we leave
Some people, like I said, want 24 hours of RNs per day, especially people in end stage.
They tend to need more care than a companion and an aide.
So we might be taking care of somebody in hospice, for example, that has nurses with them anywhere from two to three to four to a week days until they...
until they die.
And so that care is harder and is more sophisticated than somebody that needs just assistance with personal care and that kind of thing.
They picked me.
I have a bad habit of not being able to say no.
Yeah.
I love the producer, Leslie Garvin.
I loved her.
And I have a book called School of Heart Knocks and she read it and she said, oh my God, you're my soul sister.
And I just, I really couldn't say no.