If you have experienced a recent hospitalization, surgery or debilitating illness, home health care nurses and therapists will come to your home. Visits are based on a schedule predetermined by your needs and recommendations of your health care team.
Home health nurses and therapists keep in touch with your physician. They become the link to your physician so that he or she knows how you are doing without you being required to go to an office or clinic. Our nurses and therapists will communicate with your doctor directly should you require additional care or attention.
Nursing
Our skilled nurses will perform a physical assessment and then develop a plan of care to address your particular home medical needs. Services include, but are not limited to:
- Change wound dressings
- Remove sutures or staples
- Observation and assessment of physical condition
- Lab draws as ordered by doctor
- Monitor vital signs
- Medication monitoring and teaching
- Diabetes management
- Stroke rehab
- Diabetes rehab
- Cardiovascular rehab
- IV therapy
- Ostomy and catheter care
- Nursing
Physical Therapy
Treatment includes patient rehabilitation after orthopedic surgery, a stroke or other hospitalization or illness that requires physical therapy. Services include, but are not limited to:
- Improve weight bearing and balance
- Strengthen muscle groups
- Develop and assist with exercise program
- Fall prevention training
- Transfer and gait training
- Training on home-based equipment
- Caregiver training
- Physical Therapy
Occupational Therapy
Treatment includes helping patients gain independence with activities of daily living. Services may include, but are not limited to:
- Therapeutic exercise instruction to improve skills in bathing, dressing, grooming and toileting
- Teaching energy conservation techniques to improve endurance
- Low vision and spatial deficit programs
- Physical strengthening exercises
- Recommending, acquiring, and teaching proper use of adaptive equipment
- Accident prevention and home safety training
- Assess safety in your home
- Orthopedic rehabilitation after surgeries for hips, knees, and shoulders
Speech Therapy
Treatment includes patient rehabilitation for speech, swallowing, and communication disorders. Services include, but are not limited to:
- Oral-motor strengthening
- Cognitive training and memory skills
- Swallow safety and techniques to optimize swallow function
Home Health Aides
Our certified nursing assistants will work within your plan of care to provide for and assist in a variety of ways related to your needs. Depending on a client’s needs, services include, but are not limited to:
- Assist with bathing, grooming, dressing and toileting
- Assist with prescribed home exercise programs
Social Worker / Case Management
Have questions about the health care system, Medicare, Medicaid and long-term health care options for you or a family member? Wondering where to go for help? Klarus can, with your physician’s approval, provide a social worker to work as your advocate guiding you in the right direction for care and treatment specific to your situation. Call us to find out how we can help. Our services include:
- Wound or Ostomy care
- Wound Vac treatment
- IV Therapy or injectables
- Medication reconciliation
- Physical, Occupational and Speech therapy
- Skilled observation and assessment
- Disease management education
- Lab testing (x-rays and EKGs)
- PT/INR
- Catheter care and teaching
- Pain management
- Post-surgical care