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Home Healthcare Services

What is Home Health Care?

Medical home health care is provided in your home by health care professionals such as nurses and therapists. Our staff can teach you how to safely care for yourself or a loved one at home. We help you maintain your independence following an illness, injury, or new diagnosis.

Who Can Benefit From Home Health Care?

Call Specialty Home Health Care when you or a loved one exhibits any of the following, and we will help you determine if home health is the right choice.

  • Falls, unsteady gait, or unable to safely walk or transfer
  • A new diagnosis that requires the skilled care of a nurse or therapist
  • A new onset of symptoms or worsening of symptoms, including changes in emotional or behavioral status
  • A recent stay in the hospital, rehab facility, or skilled nursing facility, or a visit to the emergency room
  • Prescribed new medications, changes in medications, or mismanaging medications’
  • Unresolved pain problems or symptoms that are limiting activity
  • Missing appointments due to injury or illness
  • A change in condition, decline in ability to do your normal daily tasks, or change in caregiver status

Nursing Care

  • Teaching on new diseases/conditions and their treatment
  • Medication teaching and management techniques
  • Only area agency to offer the ReACH program, designed to reduce acute care hospitalizations in high-risk patients
  • Laboratory Services and PT/INR testing for patients who qualify
  • Post-hospitalization care and post-surgical care
  • Specialized disease management programs including Cardiac, Diabetes, Pulmonary, and Others
  • Telehealth for patients who qualify
  • Wound care
  • Transitional Care Management Services to ensure a smooth transition from an inpatient stay back to the home environment
  • Behavioral Health Nursing and Memory Adaptation Program

Therapy Services

Physical Therapy

  • Evaulation
  • Gait training
  • Balance programs
  • Prosthetic training
  • Vestibular therapy
  • Ultrasound
  • E-Stim
  • Electrotherapeutic point stimulation
  • Self-management programs to promote independence at home
  • Home exercise program
  • Evaluate for equipment and supplies
  • Interactive Metronome

 

Occupational Therapy

  • Evaluation
  • AOL training
  • Fine motor coordination
  • Sensory treatment
  • Orthotics/splinting
  • Adaptive equipment


Speech and Language
Pathology


  • Evaulation
  • Dysphagia treatment
  • Vital-Stim
  • Speech disorder treatment
  • Cognitive assessment
  • Cognitive training to improve executive function

Home Health Aide

  • Bathing and dressing
  • Personal care
  • Transfer / ambulation

Medical Social Worker

  • Assessment of social and emotional factors
  • Community resource planning
  • Short-term counseling for long range planning and decision making

Who Pays for Home Health Care?

Medicare, Medicaid, VA, and some commercial plans will cover medical home health care services when certain eligibility criteria are met:
1. Patient must be considered homebound.
2. Patient must need medically necessary intermittent skilled services (Nursing, PT, or ST).
3. Patient must be under the care of a physician who determines the need of home health care and periodically will review the plan of care.

Why Choose Specialty Home Health Care?

When it is time for you to have medical home health services, you have the right to choose which agency you will use. When choosing a home health care company look for one with proven quality and a trusted reputation.

  • Locally owned and operated
  • Two time Five Star Quality of Care recognition by CMS
  • Only Indiana home health care agency listed in Home Care Elite top 100 agencies nationwide in 2013
  • Top 500 home health care agency 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2019 by Home Care Elite
  • Top 25% of home care agencies Nationwide by Home Care Elite 13 consecutive years
  • Voted Courier and Press Readers’ Choice for Best In-Home Health Care Company 2012-2018

Serving the Following Counties:

  • Vanderburgh
  • Warrick
  • Posey
  • Gibson
  • Spencer
  • Pike

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Specialty Home Health Care
331 Kimber Lane,
Evansville, IN 47715
Tel : (812) 476 5404
Fax : (812) 476 5766
Email : intake@specialhealthcare.com

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