Avera Queen of Peace Home Health Team
Clear Objective
The overall objective of Avera Queen of Peace Home Health is to establish, conduct, and maintain an efficient and effective delivery system of health care in the home setting. The attending physician prescribes the services.
Our Home Health Program offers nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, medical social worker, aide, and homemaker services. Services are provided to patients of all age groups, from infants and children with special care needs to geriatric patients affected by acute or chronic conditions who can safely be cared for in their homes.
Our experienced Home Health registered nurses offer a comprehensive range of home-based nursing services, including direct patient care and patient education.
Our services include:
- Evaluation and treatments
- Patient and family education
- IV antibiotic therapy
- IV or enteral nutritional support
- IV hydration
- Wound care, dressing changes
- Venipuncture for laboratory work
- Medication injections and preparations
- Care of central lines
- Patients needing frequent assessment/treatment
- Ostomy and urinary catheter care
- Diabetic education
- Pediatric Care
- Coordination of community resources
Our Home Health aides provide personal care services under the direction of our registered nurses.
Some of these services include:
- Bathing
- Grooming
- Assistance with exercises
- Activities of daily living.
Home Health therapists treat people with limitations due to health, developmental and functional problems while in their homes.
Home Health therapy services cover three general areas:
- Physical therapy - Physical therapists work with patients in developing goals toward returning to optimal function. Therapists treat patients using therapeutic exercise and techniques to increase strength, balance, mobility and endurance.
- Occupational therapy - Occupational therapists promote independence and life skills including self care, mobility, and social adjustments by modifying routine activities within a client’s daily life that were disrupted by accident or illness.
- Speech therapy - Speech therapists assist people experiencing problems related to communication and swallowing disorders including problem prevention and diagnoses, consultation, screening, and treatment. Medical social workers assist in resolving financial, environmental, functional and psychological issues and educate and coordinate community resources that will assist the patient and their families.
