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Home Health Care includes
Idaho Home Health & Hospice will work closely with you, your physician and/or family to make sure that you have a care plan that is appropriate for you. We are the only home care provider in Southern Idaho that can service all of your home care needs - Home Health, Hospice, Personal Care, Oxygen and Medical Supplies.
- 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
- JCAHO Deemed Status Accreditation
- Coordinating care with local physicians since 1977
Reasons to Choose Home Care
- Skilled Nursing Care
We want to see that you are safely able to perform the activities of your daily life with the greatest level of independence. Our professional therapy team is here to provide you compassionate care within your own living environment. - Physical Therapy
Physical therapy services help and instruct you in home safety education, balance and fall risk, strengthening, walking and use of assistive devices for mobility, and other functional mobility concerns. - Occupational Therapy
Occupational therapy services provide you with education and instruction related to dressing, grooming, arm and hand coordination and mobility, and other fine motor tasks. - Speech-Language Therapy
Speech language pathology helps address problems related to swallowing, speech, communication, and oral/motor weakness and coordination. - Whether your needs are related to a surgical procedure, a traumatic event, or simply from a weakened or deconditioned state, we want to see you get back to safely living life to your full potential.
- 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."
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