SKILLED NURSING

Home is often the best place for healing. Surrounded by familiar settings, family and friends, you can relax and allow the healing process to begin. In order to aid in your recovery, your doctor may recommend medical care provided in your home. Whether you are returning home from a hospital stay or a skilled rehabilitation center, or whether you require skilled nursing or rehabilitation therapies, Direct Care Home Health provides a continuum of services and support at any stage of illness or recovery. Every skilled nurse is fully licensed, bonded and insured.

Our skilled nursing services are provided by a registered professional nurse in your loved one’s home when prescribed by a physician. Services include, but are not limited to:

• Wound Care
• Infusion Therapy/IV Therapy
• External (G-Tube Feeding/Care)
• Ostomy Care
• Ventilator Services
• Medical Management
• Catheter Change
• Comprehensive Health Assessment
• Disease Management
• Patient Education

PERSONAL CARE

We deliver Personal Care with grace and dignity. Having an experienced care assistant from outside the family help your senior with their personal care maintains the senior’s sense of dignity and enables family relationships to continue to flourish. Direct Care Home Health Services Health caregivers are fully trained and experienced in offering personal care to seniors. We earn their trust and treat each senior with the utmost respect. Finding a solution to your senior’s personal care needs is often crucial to keeping them living safely and independently in their own home.

Direct Care Home Health Services provides the following in personal care:

• Personal Care
• RN Supervision of Personal Care
• Respite Care
• Skilled Respite Care
• Supervision of Respite
• Family and Consumer Training
• Intravenous Therapy

COMPANIONSHIP

The in-home companionship care we offer, provides needed interaction and activities that help your senior loved one retain their physical and mental health. In addition to relieving the stress and worry often felt by family caregivers, most seniors enjoy regular visits from somebody new. Their quality of life improves when seniors accomplish tasks and enjoy favorite activities with a friendly senior companion. Each of our compassionate caregivers is fully trained, thoroughly screened, insured, bonded and carefully matched to your senior. Our caring service makes it possible for the elderly to maintain as much independence as possible, by providing the appropriate in home assistance and companionship. In that way we lift spirits not only of the elderly, but of the family caregivers as well.

Direct Care Home Health provides assistance for numerous other daily activities, as well as basic peace-of-mind services:

• Safety Supervision
• Transportation
• Socialization
• Cognitive Stimulation
• Monitoring Home
• Cooking
• Light Housekeeping
• Organization
• Laundry Services
• Respite Care for Family Caregivers
• Play games
• Letter Writing

PHYSICAL THERAPY

Physical therapists (PTs) provide services that help restore function, improve mobility, relieve pain, and prevent or limit permanent physical disabilities of patients with injuries or disease. PTs work closely with patients and clients to restore, maintain, and promote their overall fitness and wellness for healthier and more active lifestyles. Patients may include accident victims and individuals with disabling conditions such as low back pain, fractures, head injuries, arthritis, heart disease, and cerebral palsy.

Direct Care Home Health Services aims to provide each client with timely medical care, humane treatment and person-centered support so that they may gain independence, and pursue optimal recovery at home and in the community. Services include, but are not limited to:

• Post Surgical Strengthening
• Coordination Training
• Endurance Activity Training
• Muscle Re-Education
• Weight Bearing Activity Training

OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY

Physical therapists (PTs) provide services that help restore function, improve mobility, relieve pain, and prevent or limit permanent physical disabilities of patients with injuries or disease. PTs work closely with patients and clients to restore, maintain, and promote their overall fitness and wellness for healthier and more active lifestyles. Patients may include accident victims and individuals with disabling conditions such as low back pain, fractures, head injuries, arthritis, heart disease, and cerebral palsy.

Direct Care Occupational Therapists deliver the highest care through assessment, planning, interventions, and evaluation of patient needs through occupational therapy care plans for each assigned patient, which include:

• Deliver occupational therapy services in accordance with the approved plan of treatment and plan of care
• Observe and communicates to physician and agency staff, at least every 62 days, patient progress, reactions, improvements, and other changes in patient conditions or plan of care
• Accurately and completely prepare all clinical documentation per agency policy
• Instructs the patient and the patient’s caretaker, when applicable, in the care and proper use of equipment and devices, such as wheelchairs, braces, crutches, canes, prosthetics, and orthopedic devices
• Participate in the agency’s quality assurance review and evaluations of occupational therapy services
• Plans for discharge

SPECIALTY PROGRAMS

Direct Care Home Health Services is be best alternative to being institutionalized. We assist our patients in gaining their independence all in the comfort of their home. Our Clinical Team has developed specialized programs that encourage patient participation to assist in reducing frequent hospitalizations or re-hospitalization episodes. Our Programs are:

• Diabetes Management
• COPD Program
• Heart Health (CHF) Program
• Wound Care Program
• Fall Reduction Program
• Alzheimer’s and Dementia Program

SOCIAL WORKER

Speech-language pathologists (sometimes called speech therapists) assess, diagnose, treat, and help to prevent communication and swallowing disorders in children and adults. Speech, language, and swallowing disorders result from a variety of causes, such as a stroke, brain injury, hearing loss, developmental delay, Parkinson’s disease, a cleft palate, or autism.

SPEECH PATHOLOGY

Our medical social workers can speak with you about financial and social resources available in your community.

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Feel free to call and inquire about these and other unique services.