Medical Home Health Care Services
For patients who need nursing care and/or assistance to improve mobility and function, in-home physical therapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy, and nursing services can help facilitate recovery and healing. Nightingale Homecare’s licensed nurses and therapists provide evaluation and treatment with the goal of restoring the function needed for daily living.
Nursing
Who Benefits From Home Health Nursing Services?
Our nursing services benefit those with a wide range of needs and include:
- Thorough evaluation of the client’s health conditions and ongoing status
- Development of a plan of care that includes goals that the client participated in establishing
- Teaching related to:
- New diagnoses
- Medications, including how to avoid negative side effects
- Managing the challenging behaviors that accompany Alzheimer’s/dementia
- Self-management of chronic diseases to avoid hospitalization, including heart failure, COPD/emphysema, diabetes, depression, and high blood pressure
- Nutrition
- Fall prevention
- Managing pain
- Managing tube feeding at home
- Managing incontinence
- Wound care
- Infusions
- Tube feeding
- Catheter changes and management
- Injections
- Medication cassette set-ups
Physical Therapy
Who Benefits From In-Home Physical Therapy Services?
Physical therapy services can benefit people with a wide-range of needs, including:
- Recovery from surgery, such as joint replacement
- Issues with balance or falls
- Functional decline due to a neurological condition like Parkinson’s, MS, ALS, etc.
- Recovery from a stroke
- Issues related to a chronic health condition such as diabetes, COPD, etc.
- Weakness and deconditioning caused by prolonged hospitalization
- And more
After a complete evaluation, our physical therapists develop treatment plans with input from the client, the physician, and other care team members. We use a variety of treatment techniques to bring about improvements in mobility and function. When appropriate, our physical therapists provide training to caregivers to reinforce and enhance the benefits of treatment in the home.
Our physical therapy services include:
- Manual muscle therapy to decrease pain, spasms, muscle tension, and joint dysfunction
- Interventions to treat dizziness
- Interventions to improve movement in Parkinson’s and other movement disorders
- Development of custom exercise programs to improve strength, endurance, coordination, balance, and function, and to decrease fall risk
- Targeted therapy to promote optimum functioning following hip and knee replacements
- Evaluation of home safety
- Breathing exercises and energy conservation for those with heart and breathing issues
- Wellness education
Occupational Therapy
Who Benefits From Home Health Occupational Therapy Services?
Nightingale Homecare’s registered occupational therapists provide education and skills designed to increase safety and independence in daily activities. They are skilled at determining the safest and most efficient ways of completing daily activities, factoring in challenges associated with impaired mobility, weakness, vision problems, breathing and endurance issues, impaired sensation, nerve damage, and other health concerns that affect daily function. Treatment focuses on developing each client’s functional skills to the maximum level possible and is tailored to meet the specific challenges of each individual.
Our private occupational therapy services include:
- Evaluation of and fitting for adaptive devices that make activities of daily living easier
- Adaptive training to learn how to complete daily activities in ways that address physical challenges
- Instruction in conserving energy so that more can be done with less fatigue
- Staging of the home to make activities of daily life as simple and efficient as possible
- Training for how to compensate for sensory deficits, such as vision and hearing loss
- Perceptual motor training, such as hand-eye coordination
Speech Therapy
Who Can Benefit From Speech Therapy at Home?
Speech therapy is more than just learning how to say words correctly. In fact, it can aid people with a number of conditions, including:
- Aphasia (when someone has difficulty speaking or understanding the speech of others)
- Hearing impairment
- Cognitive-communication disorders (communication difficulties that are associated with how the brain is working)
- Weakness in the muscles that control speech due to stroke, MS, or other illness
- Thinking problems and disorders such as dementia
- And more
Nightingale Homecare’s certified speech pathologists are experts in the management of communication disorders. Following a careful evaluation, our speech therapists will design a treatment plan centered on the unique needs of each individual.
Our speech therapy at home includes:
- Evaluation to determine specific oral-motor, speech, receptive, and expressive language problems as well as issues with problem-solving and memory
- Establishment of specific treatment goals in conjunction with the client and caregiver
- Development of a custom set of activities and interventions to improve function
How to Get Started
If you or a loved one could benefit from our in-home therapy services or nursing care, give us a call today at (602) 926-1157 or contact us online to schedule an in-home assessment and learn more about how we can help. We’re pleased to provide professional care in Phoenix, Scottsdale, Paradise Valley, Peoria, Sun City, and the surrounding areas.
