EUGENE, Ore. – Medical care continues despite unhealthy air conditions, but home-bound patients face unique challenges.
Many people rely on health care workers coming to their homes because they have trouble with mobility or breathing. PeaceHealth’s home care program is working to address those challenges during poor air quality.
“Your COPD patients or heart disease-type patients are very, very sensitive to the particles in the air, and they can cause a lot of issues, obviously, from not only getting sick and feeling bad but also causing them to have to go into the hospital,” Carman said…