Care given or supervised by Registered Nurses. Nurses provide direct care; manage, observe, and evaluate a patient’s care; and teach the patient and his or her family caregiver. Examples include: giving IV drugs, shots, or tube feedings; changing dressings; and teaching about diabetes care. Any service that could be done safely by a non-medical person (or by yourself) without the supervision of a nurse isn’t skilled nursing care. Medicare covers home health skilled nursing care that is part time and intermittent.

Our licensed physical therapists have a depth of experience in helping patients recover from fall injuries, joint replacement surgeries, and stroke related disabilities. Physical therapy services assist the patient in learning how to restore function by training on gait, use of cane, walker, wheelchair, artificial limb, energy conservation, and return to work status.

Services given to help you return to usual activities (such as bathing, preparing meals, and housekeeping) after illness either on an inpatient or outpatient basis.

This is the study of communication problems. Speech therapists assist with problems involving speech, language, and swallowing. Communication problems can be present at birth or develop after an injury or illness, such as a stroke. Speech therapy services assist the patient in restoring language and communication skills to improve quality of life.

Medical social workers consult with the patient regarding financial, social, and/or transportation problems and help establish long term plans, crisis intervention, and counseling.

In conjunction with skilled nursing services and rehabilitation services, Certified Home Health Aides provide assistance with bathing, dressing, light meal preparation, and minimal household tasks on a temporary basis.

Patient-centred care to optimize safe, effective and appropriate drug therapy. Care is provided through collaboration with patients and their health care teams. Medication Management Goals: Decrease drug interactions, adverse effects and non-compliance. Patient and/or caregiver will understand the medication administration as ordered.

Our cardiac care program provides skilled nursing and physical therapy for evaluation and treatment to educate patients about the disease, symptoms, home exercise programs, proper diet and medication education.

Direct care to people with abdominal stomas, wounds, fistulas, drains, pressure ulcers, other complicated wounds, and continence disorders. The WOC nurse participates in the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of a plan of care for patients with wound, ostomy, and continence care needs.

A wellness authority and supportive mentor who motivates individuals to cultivate positive choices. Coaches educate and support clients to achieve their goals through lifestyle and behavior adjustments.

Fall prevention in the home health setting is defined as a strategy that uses specific interventions to help specific patient or all patients avoid the risks of falling in an effort to reduce hospitalizations.

A form of therapy that treats a large variety of conditions that affect the skeletal and muscular systems.

Palliative Care focuses on relieving symptoms that are related to chronic illnesses, such as cancer, cardiac disease, respiratory disease, kidney failure, Alzheimer’s and other dementias, AIDS, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and other neurological diseases. Palliative Care can be used at any stage of illness — not just the advanced stages.