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Temple City Camellia Festival Committee celebrates 70th Annual celebration Ever wonder where the phrase “Temple City Home of the Camellias” originated? Well it all happened 70 years ago when in 1944 the Women’s Club of Temple City chose a flower and slogan for the community and put it to work by crowning a Queen (eight month Sharon Ray Pearson) who was then driven down Las Tunas Drive escorted by a handful of Camp Fire Girls handing out Camellia blossoms to pedestrians. While this humble celebration has blossomed over the years, it continues to be a celebration of the youth in our community. This year, to celebrate the 70th Annual Camellia Festival, which will take place February 21-23, 2014, there will be more carnival rides and new entertainment for all ages, including live band performances on Saturday and Sunday and food trucks on Friday. There will be a Temple City High School “All Class” Reunion as well as a Reunion
for Past Camellia Festival Royalty. This year’s theme “OH THE BOOKS I CAN READ!” was suggested by theme winner, Aidan Garner, a First Grader at Emperor Elementary and announced by General Chairperson of the Camellia Festival of Temple City for 2014, Dawn Tarin at the October 24th KickOff attended by committee members and local dignitaries. The Festival Committee invited youth groups and organizations who are interested in becoming a part of this landmark celebration through building a float, marching in the parade, or operating a game or novelty booth to turn in application as soon as possible at the Camellia Festival Office as deadlines are fast approaching. In addition, if you are a First Grader in the Temple City Unified School District, or reside in Temple City, you can be part of the Camellia Festival Roy-
al Court. Royal Court Applications must be turned in to the Camellia Festival office no later than December 27th! The Camellia Festival Royal Court reigns over the weekend’s festivities as well as acting as representatives of the Camellia Festival throughout the year. The Royal Court is selected at the Play Day, which will be held on January 11th at the Live Oak Park Community Center and the public is invited to the Coronation, which will take place on January 31st at 7:00 p.m. also at Live Oak Park. All Applications, as well as more information regarding this unique hometown celebration can be found on the City’s website www.templecity. us or you may contact the Camellia Festival Director, Nan Fish at nfish@templecity.us or 626-285-2171 Ext. 2350. Join us in making the 70th Annual Camellia Festival a weekend to remember!
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Why Classic?
“Sleep” is our specialty. That’s right, no oxygen, scooters, wheelchairs, beds or other DME. We supply only PAP equipment and related replenishment supplies. This allows us to be real experts in what we do and to concentrate on delivering the patient care that matters. The fact we serve more than 18,000 patients over 18 states and are growing rapidly is testament to our focus and commitment to delivering timely setup and having happy and compliant patients.
Compliance through great patient care
is what really sets us apart from the pack. Our licensed respiratory professionals (respiratory therapists and registered sleep techs) work with patients from the time of setup and throughout their therapy with one goal in mind…to ensure they quickly adapt to their therapy and stay compliant over time.
Our CPAP Circle of Care® program
was carefully designed to achieve this. The first step of the program is for one of our licensed respiratory therapists to complete the setup faceto-face with the patient, either in their home or their doctor’s office, usually within 72 hours of approval. Our R/T will set the machine to the prescription and then educate the patient on its use, care and maintenance. And educate the patient on what to expect over the first days and weeks of their therapy. We set up all patients on the highest quality machines fitted with wireless modems (regardless of insurance). And we leave the modems on the machine indefinitely so as to be
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We relieve you from the burden of answering day-to-day equipment issues.
able to continue to collect usage data. After setup patients are passed to our patient care center for ongoing compliance care. Our licensed clinicians make outgoing calls at 72 hours, 30 days and 90 days after setup to interdict any problems patients may be having. A field R/T will make a re-visit to a patient in their home where a problem cannot be resolved over the phone.
Download on Demand® - Driving Compliance
When calling patients we use data generated from our proprietary Download on Demand® software. This takes the raw data streams from patient’s modems, parses the data to produce compliance reports containing key data points and a graph that our clinicians use so that they can have an intelligent conversation with the patient based on that patient’s actual use of their equipment. Of course patients can (and do!) call in to our patient care center for help and advice from our clinicians at any time.
Our goal is to have happy, compliant patients while taking the brunt of the every-day questions patients invariably have. This relieves the burden from our referring physician’s offices who otherwise have to deal with this call volume, and depending on the experience of the doctor in this field, may not be able to answer typical questions the patient has regarding equipment issues (e.g. how to fix a leaking mask).
Skeptical?
So you’ve heard it all before? All the DME’s brag that they’re the best and have a great compliance and supply replenishment program.... everybody talks the talk...so who do you believe? Your patients...that’s who! We’ll prove it to you. Send us two or three patients and then ask your patients about the care they received and their opinion of the process... then compare the results to your existing DME provider. Talk to your staff about the interaction they have with our office. Look at our documentation. Reach out to Bill Kleiman (contact info below) to set up an inservice over lunch with your staff to go over our program and answer any questionvs you may have.
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The prescribing doctor receives documentation by eFax (or electronically via EMR system integration), starting with confirmation of receipt of the referral through every touch we have with the patient. This includes a copy of the 2-page compliance reports containing our Download on Demand® data and a copy of the notes made by our clinician during a call. Our proprietary systems automate the flow of documentation keeping referring doctors completely informed about their patients’ progress and ensure physicians have the documentation they need for follow-up consultations with their patients.
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