OmniMed Healthcare Holdings

03/03/2025

Seeing more and more of these recently - the challenge is how to pick up such seniors and quickly right site them to the appropriate long term care facility

There is a growing group of seniors without next of kin who are spending their final years in nursing or welfare homes, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. Here is a look into how they are supported in finding solace, community and comfort in their twilight years.

21/02/2025

Dr Lai went back to Hwa Chong Institution recently to speak to year 5-6 students on Medicine as a course and career

11/01/2025

Our newly renovated GP-specialist practice at Camden Medical Centre level 4!

a) GP capabilities + same day CT/MRI + oil/gas medicals + diving/hyperbaric medicals + home care
1. home doctor visit
2. home nursing visit
3. post-op home visit
4. home equipment
5. home IV drip/antibiotics
6. home therapist visit
7. live-in nursing help
8. palliative end-of-life care
9. LPA/deputyship
10. on-site health screening

b) specialist capabilities not limiting to
1. Same day Scopes
2. Same day Minor surgeries
3. Food sensitivity testing
4. Cashless payment/medisave
5. Insurance panel surgical cases

16/12/2024

To tube feed or not to tube feed?

In my 10.5 years of home care I have not initiated tube feeding for any of my patients

I try to get family members and caregivers to see and understand
1. There is still a risk of aspiration from saliva (tube feed does not reduce that risk)
2. 100 years ago, there was no option of tube feeding (it is perfectly ok to accept that the end is near and to “let it go” like in the old times - hand feed to the comfort of the patient)
3. There is no pain in malnutrition and dehydration
4. There should not be any guilt that one is not doing enough for one’s loved ones

28/11/2024

Dr Lai was involved recently in a corporate shoot for the newly renovated and revamped - The Ming Clinic (reopening in 2025)!

13/11/2024

A good video for ALL elderly/dying patients, caregivers, next-of-kin!
Palliative care is not just about dying!

At OmniMed, we believe in the talking about end of life early so patients continue to have life even when they are nearer to the end (aging gracefully and dying peacefully in the comfort of their homes - and not alone!)

Palliative Care is not just for the dying. We hear some perspectives from those close to the topic. DOCTORS FEATURED (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE):Adj. Asst. Prof...

25/10/2024

OmniMed Healthcare Holding’s first ever family gathering/meet up

09/10/2024

OmniMed Healthcare Holdings welcomes its fourth doctor - Dr Edwin Lee to join our growing ranks as we continue to try to allow patients to age gracefully and die peacefully at home with our brand of home medical service!

https://www.omnimedhealthcare.com/our-doctors/

26/08/2024

What we hope to do as we care for our patients at home - “I only wish for [the family] to continue to be the children they are and spend more quality time with their parents. Don’t worry about the things that are beyond what you can do. We’ll take care of the rest.”

https://www.ricemedia.co/filial-piety-palliative-care-parents/?fbclid=IwY2xjawE4BJxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHQdmlAJJ7bAMLYaHJuuJv3oc8U-JDLHutYByhQZXVX0sOoTopkkHPgz27g_aem_JHnMgKcWhF29zNVWHmFzzg&utm_medium=paid&utm_source=fb&utm_id=120213192828410479&utm_content=120213192828590479&utm_term=120213192828500479&utm_campaign=120213192828410479&sfnsn=wa

Why does it feel as though we have to choose between being filial children and seeking palliative help for our parents?

25/07/2024

How
1. caring for a dying family member at home (palliative care - rejecting active treatment)
2. Choosing to send a dying patient to an inpatient hospice (so that the nursing needs are taken care of while the children can continue having fruitful interactions with the patient without the burden of care)

is an act of a filial child

https://www.ricemedia.co/filial-piety-palliative-care-parents/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3yfhwMktiSYevjROjwmBdjjS16aKM-9GqdXJ-AXzDT1m-KUtBEM02KQyU_aem_gh3IKDshDnxJWDLVZQA1gQ

Why does it feel as though we have to choose between being filial children and seeking palliative help for our parents?

13/07/2024

Dr Lai will be sharing his perspective about how to be Light in the Healthcare sector (to patients & next-of-kins, seniors, juniors, fellow healthcare workers etc) as well as the challenges a doctor faces

Marketplace Conference 2024 - God's Calling:Being Salt and Light at Work
https://wesleymc.org/events-courses/marketplace-conference-2024-gods-calling-being-salt-and-light-at-work

Do sign up here
https://form.jotform.com/WesleyMC/marketplace24

15/02/2023

From the family of a late patient of Dr Lai who walked them all the way till the end