Services

Programs and Services

Patient Referral (When to Refer a Patient for Home Health)

• Newly Diagnosed Medical Conditions or Complex, Debilitating Symptoms, require skilled monitoring, and/or health teaching.
• Terminal Illness with needs for Symptomatic Control – if not appropriate for hospice
• Pressure Ulcers
• Open wounds, ulcers, or burns
• Ostomies
• Newly Diagnosed or Poorly Controlled Diabetes
• Bedbound patients requiring the teaching of the family to manage dependent patient
• Frequent Admissions to the Hospital
• Need for exercise to improve ambulation, mobility, independence, safety, circulation, or preparation for a prosthesis
• Medications requiring monitoring (anticoagulants, antihypertensives, cardiac meds, analgesics, chemotherapeutic agents, etc)
• Patients needing dressing changes, monitoring of wounds following surgery
• Patients with hydration and nutrition problems
• TPN patients or family needs monitoring and instruction
• Patients requiring durable medical equipment may need physical therapy to train on the proper use of the equipment.

Homebound = one who requires considerable effort and assistance to leave home, AND needs care on an intermittent basis. Patients may be considered homebound if absences from the home are infrequent or for periods of relatively short duration or attributable to the need to receive medical treatment.

Generally speaking, a beneficiary will be considered to be homebound if he/she:

A. has a condition due to an illness or injury which restricts the ability to leave home except with the aid of

• supportive device (crutch, cane, wheelchair, walker)
• special transportation, or
• another person

B. has a condition that is such that leaving the home is medically contraindicated.

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