SKILLED NURSING SERVICES
- Making the initial comprehensive assessment visit to the patient.
- Provide the services that require more specialized nursing care, which include and not limited to:
- IV Therapy
- Tube Feeding/Tracheostomy Care, Colostomy care
- Wound Care
- Respiratory Equipment Management and Teaching
- Disease Process Management
- Medication Management including administration of IV, IM and SC Medications
- Reevaluating their needs regularly
- Initiating and revising the nursing plan of care
- Planning for preventative and rehabilitative care
- Preparing clinical notes and informing physicians and others participating in the patients care of changing as they occur
MEDICAL SOCIAL SERVICES
- Assess patients/families ability to cope up with social, psychological, cultural and medical issues resulting from an illness
- Providing counselling
- Providing community resources as needed
PHYSICAL THERAPY SERVICES
- Providing evaluation and treatment of patients rehabilitation needs
- Therapeutic exercises for muscle conditioning and strengthening to regain functional mobility and gross motor skill
- Home safety assessment and instruction
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY SERVICES
- Providing training for activity of daily living to maximize the patient’s functional independence within his or her home
- Evaluation and training in adaptive equipment
- Studies, evaluates and records patient’s activities and progress
SPEECH THERAPY SERVICES
- Maximizing a patient’s functional independence in communicating and swallowing
- Increasing the patient’s and caregiver’s knowledge of speech, language and swallowing disorders and of appropriate treatment processes
PHARMACEUTICALS & LABORATORY SERVICES
Coordinate delivery of Prescription Drugs or Laboratory services ordered by doctors done in the patient’s home
MODES OF PAYMENT
Services can be reimbursed through:
- Medicare and Medical
- Private insurance