St. Paul In-Home Health Services
In-home care takes many forms. Those forms include nursing services, home health aides, homemaking services, and respite care. Each of these services has their own sets of tasks that they can perform to ensure the client stays in the home rather than a facility. Our home health services give patients everything they need to stay in their homes, thus maintaining their independence as much as possible.
Nursing Services
Our nursing services involve the creation of an individualized health plan, which is done by performing a client assessment. The tasks that are carried out by the licensed professional include:
- Medication administration
- Vital sign monitoring
- Periodically reviewing the care plan to ensure it continues to meet patient needs
- 24/7 care when needed
- Complex ventilator care in the client’s home
- Dementia and Alzheimer’s services
- Medical status monitoring
- Injection administration
- Foot care
These services ensure that a client can remain in their home rather than a nursing home or other facility.
Home Health Aides
Our home health aides are specially trained to handle various types of cases. Our home health aides do the following:
- Providing patients with help getting in and out of beds, chairs, and wheelchairs
- Providing patients with physical support when performing daily activities. Such activities include bathing, grooming, dressing, using the toilet, walking, standing, or exercising
- Assisting patients with eating and drinking
- Measuring food portions and recording the patient’s food and liquid intake
- Administering treatment under the direction of the RN in charge of the case
- Maintaining patient records, such as patient condition progress, and problems. This can lead to adjustments to the care plan.
- Reminding clients to perform regularly scheduled treatments and exercises.
The pay sources for home health aides include private pay a minimum of two hours is required, medical assistance with waiver, long-term care insurance, and workers’ compensation insurance.
Homemaking Services
Our homemaking services assist patients with everyday household tasks that include:
- Light housekeeping
- Meal preparation and serving
- Transportation to and from outings and appointments
- Help with laundry and other chores around the house.
The pay sources for homemaking services are private pay and medical assistance under a waiver. Homemaking services help clients that are recovering from injuries, disabled, elderly, or ill. It’s a service that contributes to helping a person remain in their home at a time when being in a facility may be an option.
Contact Our St. Paul In-Home Health Services
Our in-home health services are designed to help our clients live their lives as independently as possible. It is about staying at home rather than being placed in a facility in an effort to improve the quality of life. To learn more about how CareFocus can help you or a loved one, call 651-756-7932 today.
