Home Care

Working in conjunction with you and your primary care provider, we develop a personalized care plan that includes the services and types of care providers you require. Your visits will be scheduled according to your needs, while your progress will be monitored and reported back to your primary care provider to ensure seamless continuity of care.

Depending on your personalized plan, the team providing care may include:

• Registered nurses
• Home health aides
• Medical social workers
• Physical, occupational, and speech therapists
• Dietitians
• Respiratory specialists

In addition to serving patients who are elderly, disabled, or have special needs, home care services are suitable for those who are incapacitated due to a medical condition, such as:

• Acute injury or illness
• Recent surgery
• Infectious diseases
• ALS
• Cancer
• Lung or pulmonary diseases
• Congestive heart failure
• Diabetes
• Parkinson’s disease

Depending on your care plan, your home care might include any of the following:

• Monitoring your vitals
• Medication assistance
• Wound care and management
• Home infusion/intravenous medication
• Palliative care
• Disease management
• Physical therapy
• Speech therapy
• Occupational therapy
• Social services

Care is delivered through regular visits to where you are, whether that means your home, the hospital, or another assisted-care facility. Adventist Health hospice workers meet with you, your family, and your physician to create a care plan personalized to your unique needs, including physical, mental, and spiritual needs.

Through hospice, you will have access to a team of skilled professionals, including:

• Registered nurses
• Hospice medical directors/physicians
• Home health aides
• Chaplains
• Trained volunteers
• Therapists (occupational, physical, and speech)
• Bereavement coordinators
• Social workers

Care plans can be adjusted over time if the needs of the patient change. Additionally, hospice care can be ended at any time, or the patient can choose to go back to curative treatments, if desired.

We treat you, not just your illness. That means we help minimize your pain and symptoms while maximizing your comfort, quality of life, and mental well-being. Hospice is about celebrating life and allowing you and your family to get the most of out every day.

The many benefits of Adventist Health hospice care include:

• Personal care assistance
• Mental and emotional support for patients and families
• Spiritual support
• Nutritional counseling
• Bereavement and grief counseling
• In-residence therapy
• Assistance with accessing community resources and services
• Help with setting up advanced directives
• Respite care for primary caregivers
• Funeral and memorial planning

Although hospice does not provide continuous, around-the-clock care (unless needed for symptom management), we will work closely with the patient’s physician and primary caregiver to tailor visitation schedules and care plans to best suit their needs. Nurses and physicians are available 24 hours a day should a problem arise outside of a regularly scheduled visit.

Home health

Home health often costs less than traditional hospital or nursing care. To be eligible for home health, the patient must:

• Be home bound, or unable to leave their home without some degree of difficulty.
• Require skilled care.
• Have a referral or prescription for home care from their physician or qualifying healthcare facility.

Hospice

To be eligible to apply for hospice care, a patient must have a life-limiting illness with a life expectancy of six months or less. Once they have made the decision to stop curative treatments in favor of pursuing comfort care services, they can be referred for hospice care.

Hospice referrals can come from the patient, their family, or their physician. Hospice care can be provided regardless of the age of the patient or the type of end-stage illness they have been diagnosed with.

Most private insurance companies cover home care services. Medicare, Medicaid, worker’s compensation and Veterans Services also offer coverage for home health and hospice care. For copay costs and any services not covered by insurance, Adventist Health also accepts private payment.

In some cases, hospice programs can work with patients who may not be able to afford the full cost of their care or whose insurance doesn’t cover all costs. Contact your local Adventist Health hospice care program for more information.

If you’re interested in setting up home health or hospice services, simply contact your physician, healthcare provider, or our home care service. Scheduling of visits will be determined by your physician and the skilled professionals who will be providing the home health services.