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WHAT IS HOME HEALTH?

Home health is a wide range of services provided to a homebound individual.
Home health care is often less expensive, more convenient, and just as effective as care that is received in a hospital or skilled nursing facility. 

Skilled home health service includes (but is not limited to): 

In general, the goal of home health care is to treat an illness or injury, home health care helps you:

  • Wound care for pressure sores or surgical wounds

  • Patient and caregiver education

  • Intravenous or Nutrition Therapy

  • Injections

  • Monitoring of serious illness and unstable health status

  • Stabilize health 

  • Regain your independence

  • Become as self-sufficient as possible

  • Maintain your current condition or level of function

  • Slow decline

What can be expected from your home health care?

Examples of what home health staff will do:

  • To begin care, Doctor's orders are needed; this is called a referral for home health services. Once received from the doctor, we will schedule an appointment where you will be asked about your needs and a nurse will evaluate your current health status. 

  • Our staff will keep in contact with your doctor and keep them updated on your progress. 

  • It is important that home health staff visit you as often as ordered by your doctor. 

  • Check your diet 

  • Check your blood pressure, temperature, heart rate, and breathing

  • Check that you are taking prescriptions and other drugs and treatments correctly

  • Monitor and manage any complaints of pain

  • Check for your safety in the home

  • Teach you about your care to help you manage on your own

  • Coordinate your care; communicate regularly with you, your doctor, and all care providers

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