The following services are available under the direction of a patient’s physician:
Skilled Nursing
- Assessing vital signs and patient’s general condition
- Obtaining venipuncture blood specimens for lab test(if qualify for other skilled services)
- Diet instruction
- Wound care/dressing changes
- Filling insulin syringes/monitoring diabetes
- Colostomy care
- Teaching client or caregiver patient care
- Assessing post surgical patients
- Instructions on feeding tubes/naso-gastric tube feedings
- Supervising medication use and effectiveness
- Urinary catheter care
- Administration of injections
Physical Therapy
- Evaluation of patient
- Therapeutic exercises, active and passive
- Transfer training
- TENS
- Prosthetic training
- Teach Home Exercise Program
- General strengthening
- Home safety instruction
Speech Therapy
- Evaluation
- Voice disorder treatments
- Speech articulation disorder treatments
- Dysphagia treatment
- Non oral communication
Occupational Therapy
- Fine motor skills training
- Home exercise program
- ADL training
- Teaching use of adaptive equipment
Home Health Aide (Must qualify for skilled nursing or therapy before you can qualify for aide services)
- Personal hygiene-shower, tub, bed bath, shampoo, shaving
- Assist with ambulation and transfers
- Provide catheter cleanliness