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- Your Physician needs to provide orders for the Nurse, Therapist, Social Worker and Home Health Aide in order to begin care. We will schedule an appointment to come to your home and talk about your needs and answer questions about your health.
- Our Home Health Clinician will then relay this information to your physician about your care and keep the physician update regarding your progress.
- We must visit you as your doctor orders and collaborate for the best clinical outcome for YOU!!
- Check what you’re eating and drinking.
- Check your blood pressure, temperature, heart rate, and breathing.
- Check that you’re taking your prescription and other drugs and any treatments correctly.
- Ask if you’re having pain and how to alleviate that pain.
- Check your safety in the home.
- Review your medications with you so you learn purpose, side effects and dosing.
- Perform wound care and teach you how to perform along with sign and symptoms of infection and when to call our agency.
- Teach you about your nutrition and how to take care of your feeding tube.
- Teach you how to give yourself insulin or other injection.
- Teach you how to manage your disease process for the best outcome.
- Teach you how to infuse antibiotics or nutrition through your central venous catheter, how to flush for patency, dress the site and change the cap.
- Teach you about your care so you can take care of yourself.
- Coordinate your care. This means they must communicate regularly with you, your doctor, and anyone else who gives you care.
Your insurance company will pay for and authorize home health care. The Home Health Agency must provide documentation what is needed along with signed physician orders. Depending on the insurance plan you choose, there may be an unmet deductible or copay. Medicare covers home health care at 100% with no deductible or copay. Home Health Advantage will let you know if there is an unmet deductible or copay.
Your visits are based on your health care needs, what your physician orders and what your insurance company will authorize. Home Health Advantage provides the documentation needed to your physician and insurance company to substantiate care based on our clinical assessment. Home health is intermittent care two to three times per week and tapers down over the course of care. Our clinical team will be working with you to set goals and discuss care needs and schedule.