Home Health Services
Below is an overview of covered services and specialty programs:
Disease State Management Programs:
For more information on any of these services and specialty programs or others you may require, please call 713-596-HOME (4663) or 1-800-583-0326 (24 hours a day).
Skilled Nursing Care
These services include:
- Observation and evaluation
- Client and caregiver instruction for disease management
- IV and IM injections
- Drainage tubes and/or foley catheters
- Ostomy care and instruction
- Wound care
- Diabetic education
- Care of central venous catheters
Physical Therapy
Offering evaluation and treatment:
- Therapeutic exercise, gait training and functional mobility training for orthopedics and neurological disorders
- Pulmonary physical therapy
- TENS and Ultrasound equipment
- Preprosthetic and prosthetic training
- Education on the safe and effective use of adaptive devices to enhance independence, increase safety and reduce caregiver burden
- Home Safety evaluations to identify safety risks and suggestions on remediation of those risks which can lead to unsafe occurrences
- Education on patient-safe stair climbing Home programs for patients and family training
Occupational Therapy
Offering evaluation and treatment:
- Changes in the ability to maintain hygiene and diet
- Disorders affecting sensorimotor, perceptual and/or cognitive problems due to brain dysfunction
- Tightness or stiffness in the arms/hands/legs
- Joint pain
- Decreased endurance to perform day-to-day tasks
- Decreased strength due to orthopedic and neurological disorders
- Wheelchair positioning and assessment for patients that slide or lean out of chair
- Retraining through muscle re-education, fine motor coordination, body image training in patients with neurological problems like CVA, brain dysfunction
- Therapeutic exercise for upper extremities to increase strength, coordination, sensation and proprioception
- Education in safe and effective use of adaptive device to enhance independence and level of care
- Home programs for patients and family training
- Home Safety evaluations to identify safety risks and suggestions on remediation of those risks which can lead to unsafe occurrences
Speech & Language Pathology Services
Offering evaluation and treatment for:
Neurogenic communication disorders (CVA, Parkinson’s, etc.) Disorders affecting speech, language, hearing and swallowing Cognitive retraining Dysphagia management Voice disorders (articulation, fluency and organization of language) Laryngectomy rehabilitation Aural rehabilitation for hearing loss
Clinical Dietitian
Nutritional assessments include:
- An evaluation of height, weight, muscle and fat distributio
- Comprehensive dietary assessment
- Nutrition education, both oral and written
- Subsequent follow up to monitor changes
Candidates include patients with the following conditions:
- Newly diagnosed diabetes
- Cancer
- Patients on nasogastric tube feedings
- Patients on intravenous nutritional support
- Hypertension
- Congestive heart failure
- Poor weight gain
- COPD
- Renal problems
- Hyperemesis gravidarum (prenatal)
Home Sight - Solutions for the visually impaired
A specialized program to help those with low vision. Using nurses, physical therapists and occupational therapists, with advanced low vision training we are able to access and modify the home environment to increase safety, and independence, manage other medical conditions if present and help reduce care giver burden.
Who qualifies for Home Sight:
- Patients with insurance coverage through traditional Medicare
- Patients experiencing functional problems related to low vision
- Patients experiencing difficulties leaving the home
Common diagnosis related to low vision:
- Glaucoma
- Diabetic Retinopathy
- Macular Degeneration
- Cataracts
Respiratory Therapy
These services include:
- Oxygen
- CPAP/ BiPAP for sleep apnea and other breathing disorders
- Nebulizers
- Suction machines
- Aerosol therapies
Home Oxygen Therapy Program
The Home Oxygen Therapy Program includes:
- Referral notification of receipt of order and completion of order
- Prompt home equipment delivery
- Personalized respiratory therapist instruction with all new oxygen patients to ensure client understanding of therapy and compliance with prescribed treatment, including:
- Purpose of oxygen therapy
- Operation, function and hazards of home oxygen equipment
- Prescribed settings and the importance of compliance with settings
- Portable oxygen options
- Respiratory customer services representative for increased communication throughout the referral process and beyond
- Clinical respiratory assessments and recommendations available upon request (physician order required)
- Clients followed by respiratory staff to ensure compliance with therapy
- Set up and follow up documentation available for your records
- Cardiovascular/pulmonary program: a team approach involving the physician, home nurses and respiratory therapists
Outpatient Pharmacy Services
These services include:
- TPN
- Pain management
- IV antibiotics
- Chemotherapy
- Injectables
- Immunologies
- On-site pharmacy
- Other IV therapies
Disease State Management Programs
Cardiovascular Pulmonary Home Care Program
Memorial Hermann Home Health promotes health and rehabilitation by maximizing each patient’s recovery potential in the most comfortable environment.
We provide cardiac and pulmonary disease education/management in the home environment that will:
- Reduce hospitalization and emergency room visits
- Encourage early patient recognition of signs and symptoms of exacerbating disease process
- Promote entry of patient into healthcare system through early physician notification
- Facilitate communication and involvement with physician
- Improve patient medication and treatment compliance
The program is designed for patients with a primary cardiac disease diagnosis and/or pulmonary patients with secondary cardiac involvement who are oxygen-dependent or exercise-intolerant.
- Medical or surgical patients (program is specific to each need)
Memorial Hermann Home Health:
- Provides case management of cardiovascular patient
- Assists the patient in following the physician’s plan of care
- Encourages patient to see physician regularly
- Communicates with the physician on the patient’s condition
- Provides outcome data collection and evaluation for referral sources
COPD
These services include:
- Patient education on disease process and management
- Education in oxygen equipment usage
- Nutritional evaluation and intervention
- Evaluation of activities of daily living
- Long-term care planning
- Rehabilitation therapies when required