- Home Health is 100% covered by Medicare or Medicaid. Private insurance is also a valid payment option, though there might be a minimal co-payment required.
- Home Nursing services are typically paid privately.
- Home Services are usually paid for privately, but coverage may be possible if the individual possesses long-term care insurance or is entitled to veteran’s benefits.
There are many benefits of home care, such as:
- Greater privacy, patients feel more comfortable and secure in the familiar surroundings of home.
- Added convenience, our health care professionals come to you.
- The chance to be near family and friends.
- Lower costs, often home health means real savings over a hospital stay or long-term care facility.
Home health services are medical based services delivered on an intermittent basis to homebound patients.
Being homebound doesn’t necessarily imply being bedbound; it means that these patients need assistance to leave their homes and consider it physically challenging to do so.
The care is administered under the guidance of the patient’s physician.
Home nursing services allow us to offer private nursing care to patients with intricate healthcare requirements. These services are frequently sought when a patient doesn’t meet the criteria for home health services and their family requires support in their caregiving responsibilities.
Our nurse collaborates with the patient, their family, and their physician to formulate a care plan. Care can be provided intermittently or continuously, and the schedule is determined in accordance with the preferences of the patient and their family. Home nursing services are privately paid.
Home services encompass non-medical support designed to aid clients in their daily activities and empower them to retain their independence. We collaborate with clients and their families to establish a service plan, outlining the specific assistance the client requires.
Continuous home services are available, ranging from 4 to 24 hours a day, and the schedule is flexible and can be adjusted at any time based on the client’s and family’s preferences.
Typically, home services are privately paid, although they may be eligible for coverage through long-term care insurance, and veteran’s benefits also extend to cover these services.
The patient’s primary care physician guides all aspects of care.
Patients may receive Skilled Nursing, Physical, Occupational, or Speech Therapy, and/or support from a Home Health Aide, depending solely on their individual healthcare objectives.
The Registered Nurse provides a wide variety of skilled services. This includes:
- Medication Administration, Use, and Safety Instructions
- Self-Testing Procedure Instructions
- Psychiatric Nursing
- Physical Assessment
- Wound Care
- Diet Management
- Catheter Care
- Teachings on Disease Processes, Monitoring, Prevention, Signs & Symptoms, and When to contact a doctor
- Laboratory Services
Physical therapists evaluate the patient and create a therapeutic treatment plan aimed at aiding the patient in regaining function, alleviating pain, and preventing disability resulting from illnesses, injuries, surgery, or limb loss.
They guide patients through exercises to enhance or sustain muscle function, offering instruction and motivation.
Similarly, occupational therapists assess the patient and devise a treatment program, which encompasses instruction and exercises in activities of daily living like dressing, bathing, homemaking, and acquiring greater independence despite a disability. These therapists also evaluate the home environment for patient safety.
Speech therapists perform assessments, diagnostics, testing, and treatment of communication disorders, as well as contributing to the prevention of such disorders. They also offer bedside swallow evaluations.
Under the guidance of a registered nurse or therapist, a home health aide delivers a range of care services, including but not limited to:
- Assisting with personal hygiene
- Reinforcing wound dressings
- Supporting exercise routines
- Providing medication reminders
- Monitoring vital signs
- And other related tasks.
Certainly not. A considerable number of patients undergoing home health care receive nursing, therapy, and assistance from a home health aide. The specific blend of care is tailored to each patient’s unique requirements and healthcare objectives.
No, the specific care a patient receives is determined by their individual healthcare objectives.
Should a patient require an additional form of care, Advent Home Health Services, Inc. will ensure its coordination.
