Home Health Care

What is home health care and what should I expect?

Home care broad range of medical services that can be provided in your home for an illness or injury is available. Home care is usually cheaper, more convenient, and just as effective as the care you get in a hospital or nursing home

Examples of health services to include qualified home

Wound care for surgical wounds or pressure ulcers
the training of patients and caregivers
The treatment or intravenous nutrition
Injections
Serious disease monitoring and unstable health condition

The goal of nursing care is to treat a disease or injury. Home care can help you to gain their independence, and to be as independent as possible.

If you receive Medicare benefits through a Medicare health plan, check. With your plan for how to give your health benefits to Medicare-covered home

If you have a Medicare Supplement Insurance policy (Medigap) or other medical insurance, tell the doctor or other health care provider so you can pay your bills correctly.

If your doctor or your doctor decides you start the Health page, they should make a list of institutions that serve your area, but I have to tell you if your organization has a financial interest in a listed agency

What should I expect from my home health care?

The doctor's prescription is needed to start treatment. Once your doctor directs you to home care services, home care organization is to make an appointment and come to your home to talk with you about your needs and give you some questions about your health.

Employees Housing Health Organization Also talk to your doctor about your care and keep your doctor informed of your progress.

It is important that home health workers to see them as often as the doctor ordered.

Examples of what to do to providers of home health care are:

Make sure you eat and drink.
Check your blood pressure, temperature, pulse and respiration.
Make sure you take your prescription and other drugs, and all procedures correctly.
Ask if you have pain.
Check security at home.
Teach you about your care so you can take care of themselves.
In order to coordinate your care. This means that they, communicate with them regularly with your doctor, and everyone who you anyway.