Turn Taco Tuesday’s dinner into Wednesday’s healthy lunch by packing (whole grain) taco shells, seasoned lean ground turkey or pork, lettuce and cherry tomatoes. Top broccoli slaw with dried cranberries and raspberry vinaigrette and you’ve got yourself a winning combination! Here are more healthy lunch ideas for work. Keep it fresh by packing some ingredients separately… Continue reading Ideas for a Healthy Lunch at Work

Wondering what to eat for lunch today? How about something that won’t bring on the post-lunch guilt or worse, the afternoon doldrums? Starting in March, in honor of National Nutrition Month, Shield HealthCare is holding a Show Us Your Healthy Lunch Contest (details coming soon)! Start training now to be one of our lucky winners!… Continue reading What’s a Healthy Lunch?

Unforeseen events happen. Like inclement weather and power outages. What if you get your nutrition with a feeding pump and the power goes out during a storm? Your pump’s battery may last a few hours, but what then? If you have a gastrostomy, or G-tube, you may be able to administer short-term bolus or gravity… Continue reading How Do I Feed When My Pump Fails? Emergency Gravity Feeding

An enteral backpack is a special backpack designed to carry a feeding pump and formula. Learn how to use an eneral backpack & take your nutrition on-the-go.

The Enteralite Infinity pump is light, portable and easy to use for those that are tube fed. Follow these steps to get started.

When using a feeding tube, knowing how to gravity feed, where Formula flows out of a feeding bag and into your feeding tube by gravity, can be important.

This Tuesday, February 4th, Shield HealthCare celebrates cancer survivors and those who support them on the road to recovery. Each year, Shield HealthCare is a proud corporate sponsor of the Relay For Life of Santa Clarita Valley. Benefiting the American Cancer Society, the Relay for Life is an overnight community fundraising walk that raises funds… Continue reading Shield HealthCare Celebrates World Cancer Day 2014

Stay tuned to our upcoming events with the Shield HealthCare monthly newsletter! This February we are recognizing: Feeding Tube Awareness Week From February 9th – 15th, 2014, Shield HealthCare is proud to celebrate the fourth annual Feeding Tube Awareness Week® with the Feeding Tube Awareness Foundation! This annual event gives us the opportunity to celebrate the… Continue reading Shield HealthCare 2014 February Newsletter

Looking for information about our most recent Caregiver Contest? Shield HealthCare is pleased to announce its 3rd Annual Readers’ Choice Contest winners, as chosen by the voting public. We would like to extend our sincere thanks and appreciation to all the dedicated caregivers who shared their stories, and to all those who voted to make these caregiver rewards… Continue reading Shield HealthCare Announces 3rd Annual Readers’ Choice Contest Winners