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Basic skilled nursing services may include:
Assessment
Disease state management teaching
Injections
Urinary catheter insertion/maintenance
Wound care management
Parenteral feedings and care
Infusion therapy
Other services include:
Admission Services
An Admissions Coordinator:
Processes home health referrals quickly and conveniently
Assesses each patient's needs
Collaborates with branch office and physicians to address patient's needs
Identifies patients with complex diagnoses and recognizes the need for specialty services
Additional functions of Admission Services include:
Providing staff consultation on home health-care orders
Delivering necessary forms to physician offices
Providing homecare evaluations prior to hospital discharge
or in a physician's office for select cases
Providing patient summaries, including orders, medications,
changes in plan of care, and progress notes
Submitting claims directly to third-party payers as allowed under current law
Contact Information:
E-mail:
Contact via email
Phone: 801-373-1400
Diabetes Education
A Certified Nurse:
Provides consultations and education with patients,
caregivers, staff, and physicians
Assists the primary nurse with ongoing diabetic instruction and care
Contact Information:
E-mail:
Contact via email
Phone: 801-373-1400
Enterostomal Therapy/Wound Care
A Certified
Enterostomal Care Nurse:
Assesses patients' gastrointestinal, genitourinary and
integumentary disorders that may include:
- Stomas/Fistulas
- Vascular ulcers
- Pressure ulcers
- Draining wounds
- Ulcers
- Injuries
Provides direct patient care
Provides consultation and education for the patient's
primary caregiver and additional nursing staff
Contact Information:
E-mail:
Contact via email
Phone: 801-373-1400
Home Care Aides
Utah Home Health home care aides are
certified medical professionals. Aides ensure patient care is
provided in the safest and most healthful environment possible.
It is important patients, family members, caregivers, and
physicians understand what home care aides may and may not do.
Supervised by a Registered Nurse, a Utah Home Health Aide:
Assists patients with personal care and hygiene services
(oral hygiene, bathing or linen changes)
Provides personal grooming (hair, nail and foot care)
Provides limited housekeeping services
With special orders from physicians, a Home Care Aide may:
Provide additional personal care services
Complete grocery or other shopping
Provide laundry service
Complete errands
Contact
Information:
E-mail:
Contact via email
Phone: 801-373-1400
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Hospice
A Hospice Nurse:
Strives to enhance the patient's quality of life
Collaborates with a hospice medical director and an
interdisciplinary team of professionals
Ensures safety, comfort and dignity for hospice patients in
their homes
Education and support services also are offered for individuals affected by loss.
Contact Information:
E-mail: Contact via email
Phone: 801-373-1400
For additional information on hospice
care, visit Utah Home Health's hospice page.
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Medical Nutrition Therapy
A Registered Dietitian:
Consults with patient caregivers and Utah Home Health staff
regarding nutritional needs
Evaluates patients' risks of nutritional deficiencies,
hydration needs and parenteral, enteral and oral intake
supplementation needs
Forms dietary plans and educates patients to maintain these
plans to achieve maximum nutritional benefits
Participates in ongoing consultation and evaluation as needed
Modifies dietary plans in accordance with special needs (IV or
tube or enteral feeding)
Enteral feeding provides the
nutritional requirements through a tube into the stomach or
small intestine.
Physicians requesting such services for a
patient are expected to see the patient within 30 days prior to
the initial home care certification.
Qualifying
Criteria for Treatment
The geriatric patient must:
1.
Have a permanent, non-function or disease that permits food from
reaching the small bowel or small bowel disease that interferes
with the digestion and absorption of an oral diet; and
2.
Require tube feedings in order to receive the sufficient
nutrients to maintain weight and strength adequate for the
patient's overall health status.
Coverage
Medicare covers administration, supplies, the necessary
nutrients and equipment if coverage requirements for enteral
nutrition are met.
Contact Information:
E-mail: Contact via email
Phone: 801-373-1400
Medical Social Services
A Licensed Medical Social
Worker:
Evaluates social, emotional, familial, financial, and
environmental settings that affect the patient's plan of care
Assists family or caregivers through a variety of services
Provides patient and family counseling
Secures appropriate community resources, long-term planning and crisis intervention for patients and families
Contact Information:
E-mail: Contact via email
Phone: 801-373-1400
Mental Health Nursing
A Credentialed Mental Health
Nurse:
Provides in-depth assessments of a patient's mental status
Assists caregivers in coping with behavioral issues and stress
that may influence patient attitude and behavior
Follows the prescribed treatment plan and educates the patient
on the plan
Monitors the patient's compliance with medication regimen
Evaluates the effectiveness of psychopharmacology
Aims to facilitate the patient's recovery process and avoid hospitalization
Contact Information:
E-mail: Contact via email
Phone: 801-373-1400
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Occupational Therapy
A Registered Occupational
Therapist:
Focuses on rehabilitative and adaptive techniques
Aims to enable individuals to become more independent in
activities of daily living (ADLs)
Occupational Therapy
Services may include:
Home safety evaluation
ADL training
Energy conservation skills
Training on prosthetic or assistive device use
Sensory-motor evaluation
Contact Information:
E-mail: Contact via email
Phone: 801-373-1400
Palliative Care
Through the Utah Home Health Plus
Program, A Trained Nurse:
Oversees pain control and symptom management
Provides coping skills for the disease process (of terminally
ill patients)
Provides comprehensive physical, emotional and spiritual care services
Physical Therapy
A Registered Physical Therapist:
Evaluates and develops individual therapeutic plans for
patients with mobility problems and functional limitations
Aims to maintain and restore strength, increases endurance and
range of motion, relieves pain and improves functional
capabilities
Physical Therapy services include:
Gait training
Therapeutic exercise
Transfer techniques
Recommendation and training in assistive device use
Contact Information:
E-mail: Contact via email
Phone: 801-373-1400
Speech Language Pathology
A Registered Speech
Pathologist:
Evaluates and develops treatment plans for patients with
communicative and swallowing disorders
Serves patients with speech and language impairment (aphasic post-CVA patients and those with memory and attention deficits not related to moderate to end-stage dementia)
Contact Information:
E-mail: Contact via email
Phone: 801-373-1400
Terminal Illness Services
Through the Utah Home Health
Plus Program, a Trained Nurse:
Provides palliative care for Medicare patients
Attempts to eliminate pain and control symptoms and side effects of ongoing treatment
Contact Information:
E-mail: Contact via email
Phone: 801-373-1400
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