Home Health Services
Providing compassionate, excellent quality, cost effective home health care.
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 and develop a plan of care as ordered by your physician
- Teach you about your illness, medications, 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
Visits
Services are short- term and intermittent as prescribed by your physician in coordination with you home health care team.
Nursing Services
- Post-operative care
- Infusion therapy
- Wound care
- Chronic disease management, including heart failure (HF), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or diabetes
- Medication Management
- Palliative care to manage pain and control symptoms related to illness or injury
Therapy Services
Physical, occupational 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, swallowing disorders, and cognitive deficits
Medical Social Services
- Assists patients and families with long term care planning
- Addresses emotional and financial needs
- Provides information on community resources
Home Health Aides
Provide personal care services such as bathing and grooming.
- Recent hospitalization
- Recent stay at a nursing home
- Worsening of a chronic illness
- Newly diagnosed illness
Most insurances cover home health care costs. St Luke’s Home Health finance personnel will verify insurance coverage and any out-of-pocket expenses.
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.