Casa Promesa demonstrates that long-term care for people with HIV/AIDS can be humane, caring, and compassionate. The benefits of such care include significant health improvement, drug-free living, and family reintegration.
Long Term Care Services
Promesa’s Residential Health Care Facility, Inc. (D/B/A Casa Promesa) is a 108-bed long-term care residential facility that provides comprehensive, holistic, culturally and linguistically competent services to people living with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) or other HIV-related illnesses.
Casa Promesa provides a continuum of care that empowers each resident to embrace the concepts of good health through appropriate medical care and the adoption of positive behavioral changes. Casa Promesa recently received a score of ninty-nine out of a possible one-hundred, from the Joint Commission On Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO).
Casa Promesa’s comprehensive range of bilingual services includes primary medical care, 24-hour nursing, interdisciplinary case management services, complete mental health services, social services, substance abuse treatment, and counseling services. Additionally, the program offers recreational, physical, and occupational therapies, vocational and educational training services and alternative therapies including acupuncture and aromatherapy.
The year 2000 was a significant one in many ways for Casa Promesa. Through the combined efforts of the project’s leadership and staff, the facility reached significant milestones that translated into better services, solidification of Casa’s position in the long-term care arena and greater recognition for the quality of service provided.
Highlights of 2000’s accomplishments:
- Increased the average census by 2% from previous years;
- Completed Transfer Agreement with major medical facilities;
- Introduced a Hospice Program through contracted services from Hospice of New York which provides a high level of care for end stage cases;
- Secured a new contract for pharmacy services with a projected reduction in pharmacy costs of 15%;
- Established linkage agreement with the Bronx State Psychiatric Center with emphasis on collaboration between both organizations for the purposes of enhancing staff education in the mental health field and the development of Mental
Health Certification Training:
- Hired new Director of Nursing Services;
- Established a well-structured Discharge Planning Program with emphasis on preparing the resident for the process of returning to the community, a secured continuum of healthcare, and appropriate housing;
- Established the Transportation Companion Program which employs well-trained escort staff to accompany low-risk residents to their specialty appointment at the hospital;
- Continued strengthening our ties with major teaching institutions such as Lehman College and Hunter College for Therapeutic Recreation, Nursing and Social Work Interns;
- Achieved significant reduction in our food service expenses;
- Finalized steps to secure a parcel to build the proposed AIDS Housing Project;
Eligibility Requirements:
- Males & Females over 18 years of age
- HIV/AIDS
- Must qualify for long term chronic care as specified by the DOH and the AIDS Institute’s guidelines
Services Provided:
- 24 hours nursing and primary medical care
- Interdisciplinary case management services
- Mental Health services and a full range of social services
- Substance abuse treatment and counseling services
- Food and nutritional services
- Therapeutic recreation
- Physical and occupational therapy
- Speech pathology
- Podiatry services
- Dental services
- Pastoral services
- Educational and vocational training services
- Complimentary alternative medicine (e.g. body auricular, acupuncture, magnet therapy, aroma therapy and REIK therapy)
- Hospice and palliative care
- Pain management
