1. What is home health ?
Answer:
Home health involves services provided at home by nurses, therapists and aides are colectively termed as home health services.
To qualify for services under Medicare and related plans clients must meet the homebound status criteria, and must be under a medical plan of treatment supervised by a physician. Criteria to qualify for home health services under
Medicaid or other insurance plans differ from Medicare requirements.
2. What is meant by Homebound status?
Answer: Please click here for further details on how this applies (per Medicare guidelines for coverage of services).
3. What home health services do you provide?
Answer:
We provide a complete range of services inclusive of skilled nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech-language
pathology, home health aide services and medical social work.
4. What kind of healthcare services are provided under Home Health?
Answer:
SKILLED NURSING is provided by registered nurses and licensed practical
nurses. Skilled services include assessments, patient education, blood draws, wound care, medication management and IV therapy.
A nurse is on-call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
HOME HEALTH AIDES provide supportive nursing care under the supervision
of a nurse. They provide assistance with personal care such as bathing, dressing, and also assist with walking and exercise,
preparing light meals and maintaining light housekeeping. Aides do not administer medications but may remind clients when
it is time to take medications.
PHYSICAL THERAPY is the health profession involved in the promotion of health , the prevention of disability and rehabilitation
of clients through evaluation and treatment of conditions using agents such as manual techniques, short wave diathermy, ice,
water, heat, paraffin, diapulse, laser, electrical stimulations, exercises, ultra-sound, etc.
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY is the health profession involved in the treatment
of various physical and mental disorders via occupation of the human mind and body in purposeful activities to promote functional
independence. Occupational Therapy may use a variety of tools including exercises, adaptive devices, adaptations, orthoses,
physical agent modalities, etc., to improve the functional performance components.
SPEECH LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY is the health profession involved in the evaluation
and treatment of cognitive-linguistic/ communication disorders such as aphasia, dysphasia, dysarthria, etc., and, swallowing
dysfunctions (dysphagia).
RESPIRATORY THERAPY is the health profession involved in the treatment of
pathophysiologic alterations of gas exchange in the cardio-pulmonary system by the use of respirators, aerosols, oxygen, gas
mixtures, etc.
MEDICAL SOCIAL SERVICES involves counseling of clients on social
and emotional factors, long and short-term financial planning, and provide information on community resourses
