Home Care De-Mystified... The three types of help at home...

Our specialty is in providing skilled home health care services. It is our mission to provide hospital quality care in the comfort of your home.

Home health care is a wide range of health care services that can be given in your home for an illness or injury. Home health care is usually less expensive, more convenient, and just as effective as care you get in a hospital or skilled nursing facility. 

Services Include:

• Short-term nursing services
• Physical therapy
• Occupational therapy
• Speech language pathology
• Medical social work
• Home health aide services

Most patients qualify for these services, Home Care services are used when patients are recovering from a surgery or managing a chronic illness. 

• Once your doctor refers you for home health services, the home health agency will schedule an appointment and come to your home to talk to you about your needs and ask you some questions about your health.
• The home health agency staff will also talk to your doctor about your care and keep your doctor updated about your progress.
• It’s important that home health staff see you as often as the doctor ordered. 

Medicare and most insurance companies follow guidelines created by CMS when considering coverage. 

 There are several requirements for receiving home healthcare:

• Homebound: Leaving the home presents a hardship for the patient. Patient leaves home primarily to receive medical care. Walking or moving requires assistance or an assistive device (wheelchair, walker, etc).
• Skilled Service Needed: Skilled medical care is necessary and can only be provided by an RN, LPN, physical therapist, occupational therapist, or speech therapist.
• Reasonable and Necessary: The patient needs treatment that requires skilled interventions.
• Intermittent and Part-Time: The patient has an ongoing need for professional skilled services on an intermittent or part-time basis.
• Face-to-Face Encounter: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requires a face-to-face physician encounter to certify patients for homecare services.
• Authorization and Care of a Physician: The homecare orders must be written and signed by a licensed physician. A physician must also be willing to follow the patient's care at home during the course of treatment.

• Provide care for your illness or injury as directed by your physician
• Monitor and advise on your diet
• Monitor your blood pressure, temperature, heart rate, and breathing.
• Monitor your prescription and other drugs you may be taking
• Monitor and report on any treatments
• Develop a pain management strategy 
• Develop a safety plan in the home.
• Teach you about your care so you can take care of yourself.
• Coordinate your care. This means they must communicate regularly with you, your doctors, and anyone else who gives you care.

In general, the goal of home health care is to treat an illness or injury. Think of it like health insurance, you don't go to the doctor or hospital unless you need to. 

Home health care services will continue until you:

• Get better and heal
• Regain your independence
• Become as self-sufficient as possible
• Maintain your current condition or level of function
• Services may be available to prevent slow decline

 When specific qualifications are met (generally, when services are ordered by a physician and a clinical assessment deems them necessary), Home Health services are typically paid for by: 

• Medicare
• Medicaid (with qualifications)
• Private insurance
• Health insurance
• Veterans benefits
• Workers’ compensation
• Direct payment by person receiving care (private pay)

Please Click in the link below to see a list of insurance companies we provide services for.