Home Health

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 (SNF).

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Examples of skilled home health services include:

• Wound care for pressure sores or a surgical wound

• Patient and caregiver education

• Intravenous or nutrition therapy

• Injections

• Monitoring serious illness and unstable health status

• Physical Therapy

• Occupational therapy

• Speech Therapy

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Example of People who Qualify for Home Health Care

• People requiring the use of wheelchairs, canes, crunches, or human assistance to leave the home

• Patients with Dementia/Alzheimers or memory impairment

• Patients who have difficulties using stair handrails due to the loss of the use of an upper extremity

• Patients suffering from pain or weakness resulting in limited ability for ambulation

• Patients with heart and respiratory disease

• People for whom outings may be medically contraindicated as determined by the physician

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