Nurses

• We bring the hospital to your home
• Assess your health, check your vitals, set up your medications, draw your insulin, ensure your home is safe from falls.
• Tend your wounds from surgery, a fall, or bedsores.
• Teach you about your recently diagnosed disease, new medications and how they interact with your other medications, and nutritional requirements.
• If you have a new urostomy or colostomy they will teach you how to order your supplies and how to care for and keep sterile when changing the bags.
• Watch for any changes in your health conditions and report them to your doctor.
• Draw blood, collect urine, etc for lab testing.
• IV therapy.
• Answer your questions when you are learning or concerned about your health condition.

Physical Therapists (PT)

• Provide services to individuals to develop, maintain and restore maximum movement and functional ability.
• Provide services in circumstances where movement and function are threatened by aging, injury, disease or environmental factors. Functional movement is a central element in what it means to be healthy.
• Develop and teach exercises to strengthen your muscles after a stroke, heart attack, hospital stay, or accident.
• Train your muscles after a knee or hip replacement.
  

Occupational Therapists (OT)

• Help get you back to being able to accomplish daily tasks or work tasks after an accident, stroke, heart attack, and other conditions.
• Teach new ways of approaching tasks
• Show you how to break down activities into achievable components, like sequencing a complex task such as cooking a complex meal
• Comprehensive home and job site evaluations with adaptation recommendations.
• Performance skills assessments and treatment.
• Adaptive equipment recommendations and usage training.
• Environmental adaptation including provision of equipment or designing adaptations to remove obstacles or make them manageable.
• Guidance to family members and caregivers.

Speech Language Pathologists (Speech Therapists)

• Assess, diagnose, treat, and help to prevent disorders related to speech, language, cognitive-communication, voice, swallowing, and fluency.
  

Social Workers

• Evaluate a patient’s financial, social, and environmental needs.
• They will assist with getting assistance and provision for food, medications and safe living environment
  

Psychologists

We have a relationship with Therapy Centers for Psychological Development to help our patients with depression due to loss of a loved one, loss of personal independence, or coping with a new disease.

Other Services

• KCI VACS visit www.kci1.com to learn more
  
• LifeLink Telemonitoring and Medication Minders Find additional information on this cutting-edge service at www.strategictelemonitoring.com
  
• Anticoagulant Blood Testing Services such as PT/INR for those on Cumadin therapy
  
• Xrays can be provided in your home.
  
• EKGs done in your home with the reports sent directly to your physician.

Home Health Aides

• Assist the patient with activities of daily living, like baths, meals, keeping living area free of trip risk
• Help with range of motion exercises.