HOME CARE SERVICES

Skilled Nursing
Our team of licensed nurses oversee our patients’ comprehensive care and ongoing medical needs. This can include skills such as assessments and teaching coordination of care, managing a patient’s medication or extensive treatments and therapies following an illness, surgery, or other health event. Our nursing team will work with you and any other caregivers to provide a personalized treatment plan designed to maximize the comfort of our patients and help in meeting their health and wellness goals.

Wound Care/Ostomy Care
Our certified medical staff provides professional wound care assessment and managed treatment services. We use a multidisciplinary approach in the treatment of both acute and chronic wounds, ranging from the use of appropriate dressings, wound cleansing, and ongoing management and healing plans. We have wound and Ostomy certified clinicians.

IV Therapy
Receive intravenous medications and phlebotomy services in the comfort of your home with our IV Therapy service. Your nurse will arrive promptly to provide your prescribed treatment and/or take blood for diagnostic testing. We partner with healthcare providers, specialists, and labs to ensure the highest level of care. We have IV certified clinicians on staff.

Medication and Disease Management
Alternative Home Health Care’s nursing and medical staff is experienced in assisting patients with a wide variety of mental health and medical issues. This can include everything from the overseeing of a medication management program by our licensed nursing staff to long-term disease management and care. Medication management via locked box is available for safety if necessary. We also provide pain management programs managed by our nursing and rehabilitation team. 

Patient and Caregiver Education
Our staff is here to ensure our patients and their families feel confident about their level of home care, not only when our nursing and medical team is at your home, but also when we aren’t. We believe in providing the knowledge and resources to ensure your loved one always receive the proper care and specialized services. 

Social Worker
Alternative Home Health Care conducts social work, including assistance with transportation, offering of community resources, and help with ongoing support. We coordinate cases with managed care insurances along with aiding with discharge planning from facility back to community. 

Physical Therapy
All our home care services are designed to meet and exceed the needs of our patients, whether that is short-term recovery or long-term physical therapy and rehabilitation. Our physical therapists specialize in fall prevention programs, Ultrasound Therapy, and Electrical Stimulation Therapy (E-STIM).

Occupational Therapy
From self-care routines to motor skills and planning, Occupational Therapy is designed to help our patients recover, develop, and strengthen the skills and movements needing for daily activities, also knowns as ADL’s/IADL’s. All therapy programs are tailored to our patient’s individualized needs.

Speech Therapy
Our Speech/Language Pathologists partner with patients and their families to create a treatment plan designed to help with language ability, alternative communication, and to address any other related issues, such as a swallowing dysfunction. We implement a variety of proven therapies to assist in the treatment of our patients. 

Home Health Aide
At Alternative Home Health Care, providing our patients with services that can help bolster independence and comfort is key. Our Home Health Aides offer patients with a variety of Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs) services, including help with light housekeeping, preparation of meals, assistance with self-care routines.

Maternal Child Health (MCH)
Alternative Home Health Care routinely provides in-home well-baby visits and welfare checks of newborns. This can be especially important in the event that the mother and child is discharged from the hospital early, there were any complications, or the Department of Children & Families (DCF) is involved.