Home Health Services
Services
- Skilled Nursing
Skilled Nursing
Skilled nursing care on a part-time or intermittent basis.
- Treatment of extensive wounds
- All types of catheters and colostomy care
- Insertion and sterile irrigation and replacement of suprapubic catheters
- Application of dressings involving prescription medications and aseptic techniques
- Bowel and bladder incontinence care
- Post-hospital and post-surgical care
- Cardiac care
- Palliative care and medication management
Physical Therapy
including exercise to regain movement and strength to a body area, and training on how to use special equipment or do daily activities, like how to get in and out of a wheelchair or bathtub.
- Strengthening
- Conditioning Exercise
- Mobility Training
- Home Exercise Programs
- Joint Replacement Rehabilitation
- Orthotic / Prosthetic Training
- Gait training/ Ambulation
- Transfer Training
- BIG Therapy for Parkinson
Occupational Therapy
To help you become able to do usual daily activities by yourself. You might learn new ways to eat, put on clothes, comb your hair, and new ways to do other usual daily activities. Client may continue to receive occupational therapy even if you no longer need other skilled care.
- Post-stroke recovery
- Use of special equipment training
- Orthotic / prosthetic training
- Muscle re-education
- Home modifications and equipment
- Therapy for Parkinson’s
Speech therapy
Including exercise to regain and strengthen speech skills
- Language and word-finding
- Communication Therapy
- Treatment for cognition and memory
- Swallowing Therapy
- LOUD Therapy for Parkinson’s
IV Services
To provide fluids, to administer medications, and to give blood transfusions. Client may require IV therapy for a range of reasons. These include but are not limited to:
- Intravenous or intramuscular injections and intravenous feeding
- Infusion therapies, including assistance during dialysis
- Vaccinations and preventive services
Respiratory Therapy
In collaboration with the physician will:
- Ventilator or tracheostomy care
- Pulmonary rehabilitation
Nutritional Therapy
Includes assessment of nutritional status, evaluation of nutritional needs, and interventions or counseling to achieve optimal outcomes. Nutrition counseling, as a component of nutrition therapy, is the provision of individualized advice and guidance to individuals, who are at nutritional risk because of their health or nutritional history, dietary intake, medications use or chronic illnesses, about options and methods for improving their nutritional status, working with the individual's physician as appropriate.
- Enteral Nutrition Therapy
- Therapeutic Interventions for Swallowing
- Initiates tube feedings
- Nasogastric tube and percutaneous tubes (including gastronomy)
- Fecal impaction management and enema administration
Home Health Aide
Services on a part-time or intermittent basis. The aide provides services that give additional support to the nurse. These services include but not limited to:
- Provide health care services in patients residences
- Perform domestic and household tasks
- Transport and accompany patients to doctors office or to hospital
- Administer simple prescribed medications
- Assist with client’s personal care activities
- Monitor patients (vital signs, temperature, respiration, etc) and report on their condition
- Maintain patients care records and document provided services
- Assist patients with mobility and physical therapies/exercises
- Instruct and counsel patients and families on diet and exercise
- Collect routine specimens
- Provide companionship and basic emotional or psychological support
