Experienced, Licensed professionals who will assist you, your family and your physician with planning, coordination and management of your care.

Skilled Nursing

We teach patients and caregivers about any health condition or disease process. We help you have a better understanding of how to manage your conditon so that you may live a healthy, normal life. Our skilled nurses can also cover wound care, I V therapy, diabetic teaching and care, respiratory care and other care. We can also arrrange for a diabetic educator and wound care specialists.

• Skilled assessment	• Phlebotomy services	• Teaching disease process
• Infusion therapy	• Catheter care	• Wound care/dressing changes
• Medication management/instruction	• Medical supplies	• Tracheotomy Care
• Negitive Pressure Wound therapy	• Intestinal therapy

Theraputic Options

Physical Therapy

We offer physical therapy services that will help restore muscle strength and joint movement. Our rehabilitation services will help you with pain management and ambulation while promoting mobility independence. We will help you to heal from injuries, such as broken bones and pre-post joint replacement. We will help you to deal with disorders that may be debilitating ensureing you reach maximum functional potential.

		• Gait training & exercises
• Tens unit	• Balance and transfer training	• Rehabilitation techniques
• Home exercise programs	• Symptom control education	• Ultrasound therapy

Occupational Therapy

Our rehabilitation team provides function-based skilled care to help you to restore indepence in self care tasks, management in cognitive difficulties, promote home management and safety skills and more during rehabilitation. Please note that our highly skilled therapists believes function base skills plus safety equals a person who is independently functioning at optimal level while doing so in the safest manner possible .

• Daily living activities	• Work simplification	• Fine motor coordination
• Orthotics/splinting	• Adaptive equipment

Speech Therapy

We offer cognitive retraining and speech therapy for patients suffering from a stroke or other traumatic event. This will help them learn basic functions such as speaking or drinking from a straw.

• Voice disorder treatments	• Speech articulation	• Swallowing treatments
• Language disorders	• Memory retraining	• Cognitive retraining

Medical Social Worker

Our social worker is your link to community resources. We can find the right program for you whether you need to be set up for transportation or need a hot meal delivered to your home, visiting physicians, help with financials for those who qualify, and assist patients with short and long term planning.

• Assessment of social and emotional factors related to illness
• Community resource coordination
• Brief individual and family therapy sessions
• Needs assessment for alternative (assisted living and nursing facilities)
• Transitional counseling

Dieticians

Elsmar Home Health Care dieticians develop personal nutrition plans to improve patient health. Services include culturally sensitive nutritional assessments and plans as well as nutrition counseling and education.

• Nutritional assessment	• Culturally sensitive nutritional plan of care
• Educational and resource materials	• Counseling

Home Health Aides

Our home health aides are certified to help with personal care services such as personal hygiene, bathing assistance, appearance maintenance, and denture care. We also do light household duties. This allows you to maintain your independence without risking your safety or well-being.

• Assistance to patient personal care needs (under the supervision of a nurse)	• Personal hygiene
• Preparation of light meals	• Light housekeeping