the whole Team
Home Health Nurses
Our Home Health Nurses are the backbone of home health. They have many years of nursing and home health experience. They understand that every patient is unique, and the care plan developed for each patient must be designed uniquely and according to the needs and the diagnoses of each patient. Our home health nursing team consists of Registered Nurses (RN's) and Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN's). The type of services the home health nurses would be performing could be any of the following for the patient and or caregivers:
- Disease Management Teaching
- Medication Education, Teaching and Management
- Infusion Therapy
- Wound Care
- Medication Reconciliation
- Respiratory disease management
- Foley Catheter Management
- Assisting and Monitoring Pain Management
- Post-Operative Care
Physical Therapist
Our Physical Therapy Team, like the home health nurse, develops individual care plans for their home health patients. They assess the home for safety issues and develop a home exercise program based on the patients home environment and the disease processes of their patient. The following, are the typical types of services the physical therapy team provides for their patients:
- Individualized home exercise program
- Home safety evaluations/instruction/recommendations
- Ambulation training
- Transfer training
- Energy conservation techniques
- Fracture management
- Walker/cane/wheelchair training
- Dressing/undressing training
- Balance/strengthening instruction
- Post-Operative care, range of motion, and weight-bearing safety measures
Occupational Therapist
Our Occupational Therapy Team is a specialized group of therapists that understand the importance of identifying home safety issues and promoting independence for their patients, while performing their activities of daily living such as dressing, undressing, bathing and grooming. The following are the typical types of services the occupation therapy team provides for their patients:
- Home Safety Evaluation/Instructions
- Home modification recommendations
- Individualized home exercise program
- Assistance/training with Dressing/Undressing
- Assistance/training and reinforcement for eating and meal setup
- Assistance/training with showering/bathing
- Cognitive training for moderate to severe impairment
- Hand therapy
- Energy conservation techniques
- Cardiac rehab
Speech Therapist
Our Speech Therapy team focuses on the patients' breathing, swallowing, speaking, cognitive skills and communication. The following are the typical type of services the speech therapy team provides for their patients:
- Development of memory tasks, problem solving and reasoning projects
- Swallow/ eating evaluations and training
- Memory/cognition evaluations and training
- Communication training for language disorders
- Develop verbal or nonverbal systems to improve communication
- Develop visual, auditory aids, and can calendars to assist with early cognitive impairment
- Help modify patients' diets and instructions for safe swallow strategies for patients who are manifesting swallowing difficulties.
Home Health Aides
Home Health Aides are an important part of the healing process for our patients, as they help the patients remain safe and become more independent on a day to day basis by assisting the patient with these daily tasks:
- Bathing
- Dressing
- Grooming
- Eating
- Medication Reminders
Medical Social Workers
Our Medical Social Workers help our patients address their social, financial and psychological aspects of recovery. Many times finding the right community resources can make all the difference in the outcome of our patients progress. The typical types of services our Medical Social Workers provide to our patients and their family members are the following:
- Provide counseling
- Provide community resource referrals
- Assisting the patient and their families with advance care planning, health directives
- Assistance with access to financial assistance
- Assistance with long term planning
- Assistance with transportation to appointments
Psychiatric Nurses
Our Psychiatric Nurses receive special training and education on how to recognize and treat the signs and symptoms of depression, anxiety, panic disorders, and other psychiatric illnesses our patients may be experiencing. We know that our patients' healing and recovering process does not just include the physical aspects of health, but also the psychological aspects. The type of services the Psych Nurse may be providing our patients are:
- Monitoring and assisting with medication management
- Monitoring and education for signs and symptoms of psychiatric disorders
- Implementation of mental health treatments to coincide with the physical medical health issues
- Instructing patients on methods to manage unsafe behaviors
- Assess and instruct patient/caregiver to improve coping skills when in crisis
Community Liaisons
Our Community Liaisons (commonly referred to as our sales team) manage the communication and referral processes between the home health agency and the community health care providers, such as hospitals, physician's offices, wound care centers, assisted living facilities, or skilled nursing facilities.