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Home Health Care includes
- Skilled Nursing Care
- Physical Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Speech-Language Therapy
- Medical Social Services
- Home Health Aide Service (if you are receiving Medicare covered skilled care)
Eligibility
- Physician determines you need medical care at home
- Physician makes a plan for care at home
- You must need one of the following:
- skilled nursing
- physical therapy
- speech therapy
- continued occupational therapy
- You must be homebound or normally unable to leave home without assistance
Our Agency Provides
- 24 hour a day / 7 day per week care
- Certified Wound Care Specialist
- Certified Diabetic Educator
- Joint Commission Deemed Status Accreditation
- Coordinating care with local physicians since 1977
Reasons to Choose Home Care
- Skilled Nursing Care
A skilled nurse is a licensed registered nurse or licensed practical nurse educated to provide general and specialized nursing care to individuals in their own home.
Skilled nursing services that may be provided in the home include dressing changes, administering injections or IV medications and post-hospitalization care. - Physical Therapy
Therapy is directed towards improving circulation, strengthening muscles, improving range of motion and training or retraining in activities of daily living. Some therapies include: exercise, heat and cold applications, electrical stimulation, ultraviolet light treatments and massage. - Occupational Therapy
Occupational therapists provide treatment and education for loss of functioning in activities in daily living. They work with fine motor coordination, perceptual-motor skills, sensory testing, adaptive/assistive equipment, activities of daily living and specialized upper extremity/hand therapies. - Speech-Language Therapy
Speech therapists are available to treat articulation, language, swallowing, voice and language disorders. Therapies may include: speech/language exercises, and instruction in prosthetic or alternative communication devices. - Medical Social Services
Provided by a qualified medical social worker to resolve social or emotional problems that are expected to be an impediment to the effective treatment of the patient's medical condition or rate of recovery. Social services may provide information on available community resources, short term counseling services required by the patient and/or patient's family member or caregiver when the home health agency can demonstrate that a brief intervention by a medical social worker is necessary to the effective treatment plan. - Home Health Aide Service
May be ordered by the physician to assist patient with bathing, dressing, grooming, caring for hair, nail and oral hygiene during a brief recovery period or to prevent deterioration of the patient's health. Qualifications for this service are dependent on patient's form of payment. Your Home Health professional can answer all questions regarding aide services.
Reasons Why Home Care is Effective
By Val J. Halamandaris
- Home care keeps families togther. There is no more important social value. It is particularly important in time of illness.
- Home care helps the elderly maintain their independence. None of us wants to be totally dependent and helpless. With some assistance, seniors can continue to function as viable members of society.
- Home care prevents or postpones institutionalization. No one wants to be placed in a nursing home unless that is the only place where we can obtain the total, 24-hour care that we need.
- Home care promotes healing. There is much scientific evidence that patients heal more quickly at home.
- Home care is safer. For all its life-saving potential, some 20% of the people who enter a hospital develop a complication such as an infection. The incidence of such risks at home is near zero.
- Home care allows a maximum amount of freedom for the individual. A hospital, out of necessity, is a regimented, regulated environment. The same is true of a nursing home.
- Home care is personalized care. Home care is tailored to the needs of each individual. It is delivered one-on-one.
- Home care reduces stress. Unlike most forms of health care, which can increase anxiety and stress, home care has the opposite effect.
- Home care is the most effective form of health care. There is a very high consumer satisfaction associated with care delivered in the home.
- Home care is given by special people. By and large, home care nurses and aides look at what they do as a calling not as a job.
- Home care extends life. Studies by schools of nursing and by government agencies established beyond a doubt that home care extends longevity. The visits by home care personnel help people not only medically but spiritually.
- Home care improves the quality of life. Home care not only helps add years to life, but also life to years. Studies in the US and abroad show that those receiving home care have higher rates of satisfaction with life.
- Home care is the most efficient form of health care. That is because it is personalized, it uses the patient's own home, instructs the patient, enlists the patient's family as caregivers, it cuts down on expensive travel to hospitals, and minimizes expensive hospital stays.
(Reprinted with permission.)
OUR PATIENTS
Carla D. Home Health Patient
Carla underwent a total hip replacement in 2001. Her children live in California and were unable to assist in her recovery. Said Nicole her oldest daughter "We researched Home Health in Idaho extensively. We found the care superb and the services provided unparralled."
PHYSICIANS: Do you have a patient you would like to refer? See Locations for list of our referral phone numbers or simply call 800-540-4061.