Is it Time for Home Health Care from Residential?
Is the patient often hospitalized or frequently visiting the ER?
Residential's Solution:
Residential's nurses can monitor patient conditions and vital signs and provide timely intervention at the first sign of abnormalities.
Does the patient forget to take prescription medications or neglect to follow dietary or other instructions from the doctor?
Residential's Solution:
Residential's nurses can do a complete in-home audit of all medications, pre-fill pill boxes and provide important instruction, education and oversight to ensure that the doctor's plan of care is followed.
Has the patient's personal hygiene declined, or does the patient have trouble bathing or dressing?
Residential's Solution:
Residential's occupational and physical therapists can help build strength and independence with daily activities, and a certified personal care attendant can assist with bathing, dressing or other grooming needs.
Has the patient recently been discharged from a hospital or nursing home?
Residential's Solution:
Residential's nurse can provide in-home nursing and wound care and update the doctor on the patient's recovery progress, and Residential's therapists can help the patient regain strength and stability.
Does the patient have little or no food in the home? Has the patient lost weight? Can the patient no longer drive to the grocery store or stand long enough to cook?
Residential's Solution:
Residential's social workers can coordinate community resources like Meals on Wheels to provide nutritious home-delivered meals, up to seven days a week, and a nutritionist can consult on dietary matters.
Does the patient have trouble maintaining balance, have an unsteady gait, or have a history of falling?
Residential's Solution:
Residential's physical therapists will complete a fall risk assessment that can help identify and eliminate the physical and environmental risks of falling at home and develop a rehab program that can considerably improve strength and stability.
Has the patient been recently diagnosed with a new illness or condition?
Residential's Solution:
Residential's nurses can help the patient understand how to monitor and respond to the signs and symptoms of the illness and provide important education so the patient will comply with the physician's plan of care.
Does the patient have unstable vital signs or vital signs that are on the verge of being outside of normal limits?
Residential's Solution:
Residential's nurses can help monitor the patient's vital signs, teach the patient to self-monitor, and review the plan of care and medications, in consultation with a physician, to help stabilize the patient.
Does the patient not have family members nearby who can monitor the well-being of the patient?
Residential's Solution:
Residential's care team can serve as a liaison between the physician and the family to assess a patient's situation, needs, solve problems and coordinate health care with the patient's physician.
If you have answered “YES” to any of these questions, it may be time to consider Residential Home Health. Please email us at care@residentialhomehealth.com or call 866.902.4000.
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