Home Health
Enhance recovery and support of your well-being at home.
Supporting your journey to health and healing.
St. Luke's Home Health offers expert care and education to support your recovery and well-being at home. Our skilled nursing team works closely with your doctor to create a personalized care plan, providing the medical expertise you need in the comfort of your own home. If needed, you may also receive services from a physical, occupational or speech therapist; a medical social service worker; or a home health aide.
St. Luke’s Home Health can help, if you have had a:
- Joint replacement or other surgery
- Stroke
- Injury
- Wound that has difficulty healing
Or if you’re receiving ongoing treatments for:
- Diabetes
- Heart disease
- Respiratory illness
- Other health problems
While in the home, we will:
- Assess your condition
- Teach you about your illness and ways to manage recovery
- Help you understand your medications, their precautions and possible side effects
- Teach you about treatments or exercises prescribed by your physician
Intermittent Visits
Services are provided intermittently. This means that a nurse, therapist or other team member will visit you as needed – typically one or more times a week. You will receive visits based on what your physician and home health care team determines are necessary.
Nursing Services
- Post-operative care
- Infusion therapy
- Wound care
- Chronic disease management, including heart failure (HF), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or diabetes
- Telehealth monitoring
- Palliative care to manage pain and control symptoms related to illness or injury
Therapy Services
Physical, occupation and speech therapists are available to assess rehabilitation needs and to develop a home therapy program.
- Physical therapy – Improves strength and endurance, and maximizes functionality and safety
- Occupational therapy – Promotes independence with daily living activities
- Speech therapy – Assesses and treats speech, language, and swallowing disorders, and cognitive deficits.
Medical Social Services
Assists patients and families to cope with illness, address emotional and financial needs and access community resources.
Home Health Aides
Provide personal care services such as bathing and grooming.
Typically, patients who receive home healthcare are “homebound” and have had a:
- Recent hospitalization
- Recent stay at a nursing home
- Worsening of a chronic illness
- Newly diagnosed illness
Medicare and most insurance cover home health care. St. Luke’s Home Health will verify insurance coverage and any out of pocket expenses that may occur.
Most insurances require that the patient be homebound- meaning that absence from the home is infrequent and of short duration, and to leave the home is a considerable and taxing effort.
Our patients benefit by receiving care in a comfortable and familiar setting. Services are provided on an intermittent basis for patients who need the skills of a professional nurse or therapist.
Home health services are offered through a team approach that may include nursing; physical, occupational and speech therapy; medical social services; and home health aides. Our dedicated staff encourages and teaches patients to become independent and in control of their health.
Skilled nursing services may include post-operative care, infusion therapy, wound care, chronic disease management such as Congestive Heart Failure (CHF), Diabetes and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).
Physical therapy improves strength and endurance and maximizes functionality and safety. Occupational therapy promotes independence with daily living activities. Speech therapy assesses and treats speech, language and swallowing disorders.
Receiving care by a home health nurse or therapist will help patients recover in familiar surroundings and greatly reduce the risk of complications or a hospital readmission. The initial home health visit will typically occur within 48 hours of discharge from the hospital.
Regardless of a patient’s physician or hospital, patients have the right to choose St. Luke’s Home Health as their home health provider.
In addition to receiving skilled and caring home health services from St. Luke’s Home Health, referred patients also benefit by having a first-hand connection to the entire St. Luke’s University Health Network including state-of-the-art treatment and specialty services.
Physicians determine when patients will benefit from Home Health services. St. Luke’s Home Health collaborates with a patient’s physician to develop an individualized plan of care to return to the best level of health.
Most insurances require the patient be homebound. Patients may be temporarily homebound while recovering from surgery, a medical condition or trauma. This means leaving the home is infrequent and to do so is a taxing effort.
St. Luke’s Home Health accepts Medicare and most private insurance plans. Insurance coverage, whether full or partial, is verified prior to initiating care.