Home Health Services and Treatments

Skilled nursing services are available for:

• Administration of medication injections and IV infusions
• Disease-specific care and teaching
• Foley catheter insertion and management
• Medication management
• Rehabilitative nursing
• Tube feedings
• Wound and ostomy care

PT services focus on:

• Balance training
• Cardiopulmonary
• Daily living activities
• Energy conservation
• Gait/stair training
• Home exercise program
• Home safety evaluation
• Pain management
• Prosthetics/orthotics
• Range of motion/joint mobility
• Strength, muscle tone and coordination
• Transfers/bed mobility
• Wheelchair mobility
• Work capacity
• Wound care

OT services focus on:

• Activity tolerance, leisure/recreation and energy conservation
• Adaptive equipment and prosthesis management
• Arm strength/joint mobility
• Cognition/problem solving/safety awareness
• Daily living activities
• Fine motor control
• Functional mobility and balance
• Home management and modification
• Pain management
• Positioning
• Psychosocial evaluation and treatment
• Assessment of physical tasks; recommendations on task modification due to illness or injury
• Vision/perception

Speech therapy may include:

• Behavior modification
• Cognition and comprehension
• Feeding – diet modifications
• Functional respiration
• Positioning
• Reading
• Speaking (language)
• VitalStim^® Therapy for swallowing and dysphagia
• Voice/speech production

Medical social workers help with:

• Assessment of:
  • Economic factors impacting care
  • Social and emotional factors impacting recovery
• Interventions for families and caregivers
• Community resource planning
• Counseling and recommendations regarding long-term care arrangements
• Finance management
• Linkage with available community resources
• Short-term therapy

We can provide licensed home health aides for extra support for your daily activities. All services are part of a specific plan supervised by a nurse or therapist and may include:

• Assistance with self-administered medications
• Personal care services for daily living (for example, bathing, brushing teeth and combing hair)
• Support in understanding and completing tasks assigned as part of your therapy plan of care