Home Health Services
Home Health Care can benefit patients
- Quicker recovery time - Persons typically recover faster at home.
- Convenience - Patients can have regularly scheduled visits without leaving home.
- Privacy - Patients are in their own homes rather than an office or exam room.
- Comfort - Patients are in a familiar, safe place.
- Cost effective - Home Health Care is less expensive compared to long-term hospital or nursing home stay.
Services offered
- Skilled Nursing (RN, LPN)
- Nurses Aide
- Physical Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Speech Therapy
- Social Work Services
Skilled Nursing includes
- Establish appropriate care plans determined by initial assessment and physician's orders.
- Patient/caregiver education and monitoring on a wide range of topics to patients with diagnoses in orthopedics, cardiology, respiratory, neurology, gastroenterology, diabetes, surgery, and more.
- Dressing changes and teaching.
- Medication monitoring.
- Foot care and toenail trim for those with marked impairment of circulation.
Home Health Aide includes
- Bath
- Linen change
- Light housekeeping
- Light meal prep
Physical Therapy includes
- Therapeutic exercises to restore function affected by illness, injury, or surgery
- Home Program to relieve symptoms such as pain, weakness, or immobility
- Improve safety in ambulation or transfers.
- Teaching and training for both the patient and the caregiver to encourage independence.
Occupational Therapy includes
- Restore function in upper extremity affected by illness, injury, or surgery.
- Restore independence in activities of daily living.
- Provide teaching and training to patient and caregiver.
- Energy conservation and breathing techniques to improve functional abilities.
- Home safety evaluation.
Speech Therapy includes
- Restore function in voice, swallowing and/or communication affected by illness, injury, or surgery.
- Establish and teach alternative communication.
- Establish or re-establish safe oral intake of food/fluids.
- Restore cognitive function affected by illness, injury, or surgery.
Social Work services includes
- Therapeutic counseling for patient or caregiver.
- Assistance with financial resource procurement.
Contact Kim Wayland RN BSN or Dina Haskamp-Polson RN with any questions about home health services. Phone 660-248-2100 or toll free 866-748-2100