Each year, Shield HealthCare works with our delivery partners to bring you reliable service throughout the holiday season. Below you’ll find Shield HealthCare’s 2021 holiday delivery schedule. We have also included when Shield HealthCare’s call centers will be open. For the second year in a row, delivery companies are exceptionally busy as a result of… Continue reading 2021 Holiday Delivery Schedule

When I was a student in school, students with disabilities were placed in a separate class, they traveled together around the school building, and everyone knew who “they” were. Terms such as “retarded,” “stupid,” or handicapped” were used so often. As a I type these highly derogatory terms, my skin crawls.  Over the years, our… Continue reading Which Terminology Should I Use – Special Needs or Disabilities?

Enteral Nutrition Support Groups and Foundations: Adult Tube Feeding Facebook Support Group www.facebook.com/groups/Adulttubefeeding ASPEN: American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition www.nutritioncare.org The Daily Feed: Tube Feeding Family Support Network www.facebook.com/groups/TheDailyFeed Feeding Matters  www.feedingmatters.org Feeding Tube Awareness Foundation www.feedingtubeawareness.com Flourish Community: Home Nutrition from Shield HealthCare www.shieldhealthcare.com/community/nutrition Oley Foundation www.oley.org Tube Fed Kids tubefedkids.ning.com   Incontinence Support Groups and Foundations: American Kidney… Continue reading National Support Groups and Foundations

Is your cholesterol clean-up crew up to the job? Low levels of HDL (high density lipoprotein) can lead to increase risk for heart disease but did you know that high levels of HDL can actually work as a clean-up crew, sweeping up the ‘bad’ LDL (low density lipoprotein)?

You know that feeling when you get home, put the key in the door, and you get that sudden urge to urinate? You squeeze, tell yourself to hold it, cross your legs tightly, run to the toilet and _____. You fill in the blank. This phenomenon is commonly referred to as “The Key in the… Continue reading Kegel Exercises to Stop Urine Leaks

Urinary incontinence can be effectively treated by making some changes to your lifestyle including limiting caffeine, alcohol, diet and more.

Strokes are the 5th leading cause of death and a major cause of disability in the U.S. The sooner a stroke is treated, the better the chances of recovery.

Shield HealthCare’s 5-minute tour of the Partnership Program website will help you learn all of the useful tools that are available to our partners who order on the web, which can help your business save time and money: • 10% web discount • Usage reports to help you track spending • Place orders 24/7, at… Continue reading 5-Minute Tour of the Partnership Program Website

In this article, our Spinal Cord Injury Lifestyle Specialists lists some of the most common secondary complications and his way of managing said conditions.