R.N. and Therapy Services to Meet Your Skilled Home-Care Needs

• Registered Nurse: Assessment, treatment and coordination of healthcare services provided by a caring professional team of nurses who work closely with clients, families, and physicians.

• Physical Therapist: Skilled treatment aimed at restoring physical function and optimal quality of life as it relates to mobility, safety and health. Providing instruction on exercise and adaptive equipment, Ultrasound, TENS unit, Neuromuscular Stem.

• Occupational Therapy: Skilled assessment and treatment aimed at restoring skills necessary for improving activity of daily living ability.

• Speech Therapy: Skilled treatment focused on retraining impaired speech, hearing, language disorders, and improving communication abilities.

• Medical Social Worker: Provision of support and referral information regarding available resources for the emotional, psychosocial and financial stresses that often accompany illness, injury, and/or disability.

Description of what our Experienced Staff Specializes in:

Client assessment and instructions
Infusion Therapy; Provision of IV Therapy by highly trained Nurse
Case Management; Experience multidisciplinary team working together to provide outstanding client outcome
Wound Care/Ostomy Care; Provision of specialized care for all types of wounds, ostomies and continence issues. Working closely with wound certified nurses
Anti-coagulant therapy management; Administer and provide education related to anti-coagulation medications and provide blood PT/INR monitoring in the home setting
Education of Disease process and medications
Other procedures within the scope of nursing

What to EXPECT when you are EXPECTING HOMECARE from Professional Home Nursing

EXPECT... a visit within 24-48 hours of getting home, unless indicated otherwise

EXPECT... to be seen by at least an RN or PT with the possibility of being seen by both and
maybe OT and/ or speech and/ or SW if there is a need

EXPECT...to be educated on your medication, diagnoses, home safety and adaptive equipment or any other needs you may have at home

EXPECT...to understand your Diagnoses, medications, surgical precautions and recommendations on how to modify your home environment if needed

EXPECT...to have assistance in pain management so you can participate in your rehabilitation

EXPECT...to understand and participate in your care or have a significant other be involved to assist with your care when there is a need

EXPECT...to have a skilled professional assess your body systems for any signs of complications, incision, wound, and get them addressed immediately

Contact us today to discuss your skilled home care needs with a qualified, professional nurse.

Frequent Questions and Answers

What is Skilled Home Care?
Skilled Home Health care is given when a person needs skilled staff (Registered Nurse,Physical Therapist, OccupationaI Therapist, Speech Therapist, Social Worker) to manage, assess,and evaluate care following a doctor's order.
Skilled care requires the involvement of skilled professionals in order to be given safely and effectively.

What is the goal of Skilled Home Care?
The goal of skilled home care is to help improve the client's condition or to maintain the client's condition and prevent it from getting worse while in the comfort of their own home.

How do I get Skilled Home Care?
It comes after a doctor's visit, a hospital stay or a rehab stay.

Can anyone get Skilled Home Care?
Yes, with a doctor's order for an individual who has a skilled need such as;a new diagnosis,a change in treatment plan for an existing diagnosis, or changes in medications. A hospitalization often will qualify for skilled home care and frequently after a rehab stay, skilled care is needed for a safe transition to home. An individual must be homebound to qualify for skilled home care.

How long will I be receiving Home Care Services?
The duration of the Skilled Home Care Services that you received is individualized to your needs.

Who Pays?
Medicare
Mainecare
Private Insurance
Private Pay
Sometimes a combination of these...
Medicare requires patient's to be Homebound

What is being Homebound?
Homebound is when it is a taxing effort for client's to leave their home due to their illness/condition. Some examples include a recent surgery, severe shortness of breath upon ambulating less than 20 feet, open wound, leaving your home is medically contraindicated, requiring assistance to leave home due to cognitive impairment or other medical reasons such as limited mobility, generalized weakness/decreased endurance/abnormality of gait, Requiring assistive device, Requiring assistance to rise from a chair, High fall risk, etc..

If I am Homebound does it mean that I cannot go to church or get my hair done?
No, any absence that is infrequent or of relatively short duration such as getting your hair done and going to church is ok.

Why should the doctor's office, hospital or rehab facilities refer to us?
Demonstrated better client outcomes, decreased re-hospitalization or return to rehab facilities within their 30 day post discharge, less opportunity for medication errors, easier transition for clients/caregivers to their home, better continuity of care, meeting the client's needs in the comfort of their home and assessing the need for extra support or devices to increase independence in care.
In all the years that we have been providing skilled home care services, whether it was for only a couple of weeks to even a year of services it is always beneficial to the clients. Our Agency has the client's best interest at heart. We provide high quality care

Contact us today to talk with a qualified, professional nurse about your skilled home care needs.