Home Health Aide
A person trained to assist public health nurses, home health nurses, and other health professionals in the bedside care of patients in their homes.
Home Health Aides in Baltimore, MD
Meal Specialist
A public or privately owned facility providing meals to individuals traveling long distances or receiving prolonged outpatient medical services away from home.
Meal Specialists in Baltimore, MD
Military Health Care Provider
Active duty military health care providers not otherwise classified who need to be separately identified for operational, clinical, or administrative processes.
Military Health Care Providers in Baltimore, MD
Personal Care Attendant
An individual who provides assistance with eating, bathing, dressing, personal hygiene, activities of daily living as specified in the plan of care. Services which are incidental to the care furnished, or essential to the health and welfare of the individual may also be provided. Personal care providers must meet state defined training and certification standards
Personal Care Attendants in Baltimore, MD
Adult Companion
An individual who provides supervision, socialization, and non-medical care to a functionally impaired adult. Companions may assist or supervise the individual with such tasks as meal preparation, laundry and shopping, but do not perform these activities as discrete services. These services are provided in accordance with a therapeutic goal in the plan of care.
Adult Companions in Baltimore, MD
Health Information Specialist / Technologist
An individual with a high school diploma, on-the-job experience and coding education from seminars or college classes who passes a national certification examination in either inpatient and outpatient facility services coding, or physician services coding.
Health Information Specialist Technologists in Baltimore, MD
Dance Therapist
Ms. Jasmine Whitney is a Dance Therapist in Baltimore, MD
with special training and skill in the use of movement and dance to promote social, cognitive, and physical healing.
As a Dance Therapist, Jasmine Whitney performs
individual and group therapy sessions. Dance Therapy is
psychotherapy that applies dance and movement to promote mental, emotional, physical health, and social integration. Significant diseases and conditions treated by
Dance Therapists include low self-esteem, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, autism, trauma, and Alzheimer's disease.
Medical tests, procedures and therapies provided by Dance Therapists
include assessments, dance instruction, and interventions during therapy sessions like mirroring and movement metaphors.
The dance therapist, sometimes called a movement therapist, focuses on rhythmic body movements as a medium of physical and psychological change. Dance therapy is practiced more often with mental health patients than with physically disabled patients. A master's degree is required by the American Dance Therapy Association to award the credentials Dance Therapist Registered (DTR).
Dance Therapists in Baltimore, MD
Nutrition Educator
Nutrition Educators in Baltimore, MD
Health & Wellness Coach
The Health & Wellness Coach is trained in motivational theories, strategies, and communication techniques, which are used to assist patients to develop intrinsic motivation and obtain skills to create sustainable change for improved health and well-being. Health and wellness coaching is a patient-centered approach wherein patients at least partially determine their goals, use self-discovery or active learning processes together with content education to work toward their goals, and self-monitor behaviors to increase accountability, all within the context of an interpersonal relationship with a coach.
Health Wellness Coaching in Baltimore, MD
Nutritionist
Ms. Jasmine Whitney is a Nutritionist in Baltimore, MD
with special training and skill in advising patients on what to eat in order to achieve a specific health-related goal, or lead a healthy lifestyle.
As a Nutritionist, Jasmine Whitney performs
tutorials on nutrition, assessment of clients' nutrient imbalances, customization of meal plans, evaluation and adjustments of those meal plans, public speaking on the relationship between good nutrition and disease prevention, research on the latest nutritional science studies. Nutrition is
the study and management of the nutrients (including essential micronutrients) that are required for the proper functioning of all human biochemical processes. Nutrition medicine treats the causes underlying patients' symptoms, which, although often partly genetic, are usually very much nutrition-dependent. Significant diseases and conditions treated by
Nutritionists include diabetes, food allergy and intolerance, IBS syndrome, eating disorders, chronic fatigue, malnutrition, kidney failure and bowel disorders, acne, arthritis, autism, bronchitis, candida, chronic fatigue, chronic pain, cystic fibrosis, depression, fibromyalgia, gout, headaches, high blood pressure, hyper/hypo thyroid, infertility, liver disease, and obesity.
Medical tests, procedures and therapies provided by Nutritionists
include blood testing, saliva testing, urine testing, stool testing, nutrition and supplementation plan development.
A specialist in adapting and applying food and nutrient knowledge to the solution of food and nutritional problems, the control of disease, and the promotion of health. Nutritionists perform research, instruct groups and individuals about nutritional requirements, and assist people in developing meal patterns that meet their nutritional needs; (2) A nutritionist is someone who has completed undergraduate and/or graduate training in the discipline of nutrition without necessarily meeting the academic and experience requirements to qualify for the Registered Dietitian designation.
Nutritionists in Baltimore, MD
