Apria Healthcare

What We Do

Apria Healthcare is committed to providing outstanding care and exceptional service. Through our trained professionals and clinicians, Apria offers a wide range of clinical services and equipment. Below are some of our offerings, and we’re dedicated to making all of them easy and positive experiences for you.

Why Choose Apria?

Being the best means more than just being the largest home healthcare company in America. It’s about making sure that we exceed the expectations of those we serve every day. It's also about demonstrating high clinical standards and compassion in patient care.

Offering a comprehensive range of home respiratory therapy, diabetic supplies, medications and equipment, home infusion therapy and home medical equipment services, Apria Healthcare is America's leading provider of integrated home healthcare products and services. Headquartered in Lake Forest, California, Apria employs more than 12,000 healthcare professionals in more than 550 Apria branch offices across the United States.

The Apria Advantage — Our Guiding Principles

Exceptional Service

Apria Healthcare has the most comprehensive product and service line available. Through our COPD Care, Sleep Management, and Tube Feeding programs, we stand ready to help ensure patients receive the care they need.

Patient Outcomes

Apria is committed to focusing on the outcomes of people who receive our services. We offer comprehensive patient education, clinical assessments, and ongoing monitoring to identify additional patient needs.

Patient Satisfaction

Patient satisfaction is at the core of everything we do at Apria Healthcare. The lives of those we serve are directly impacted by the care we provide, and it is our commitment to provide top quality service.

Nationwide Leadership

Extensive Medicare experience as well as the largest network of payor contracts ensure that Apria is positioned to provide care to more patients. We take our role as the nation’s largest provider of home healthcare services seriously, acting as an industry-leading innovator. It is our goal to make choosing Apria an easy decision.

Apria's COPD Treatment

We Make it Easier on You

With COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease), treatment is a daily chore. But we do everything we can to make it easier on you. We tailor treatment to you to match your medical and lifestyle needs and provide you with 24/7 support every day of the year.

Medications

Medications can help people in the early stages of COPD control the symptoms and reduce exacerbations. The Apria COPD Care Program has a full range of COPD medicines along with complimentary overnight delivery. How many retail pharmacies do you know that deliver this level of service?

Convenient Pharmacy Services

• Convenient overnight delivery to new patients
• Advanced patient refill reminders
• 24/7 pharmacy support

 Nebulized Therapy Effectiveness

Because there is no special technique or coordination required,1 a nebulizer may be a simpler, easier-to-use drug delivery system to those who do not gain optimal benefit from dry powder inhalers or metered dose inhalers. One of the main advantages of a small volume nebulizer is that the delivery of doses occurs over 60 to 90 breaths, rather than in just one or two inhalations. This means a single ineffective breath will not decrease the effectiveness of the treatment.2

Oxygen

For people in need of oxygen, Apria offers one of the most robust long-term oxygen therapy programs available, including a travel and relocation program.

Travel Program Covering All 50 States

• Oxygen system delivery for travel
• Oxygen system delivery and pick-up at destination
• 24/7 On-Call Clinical Support

 Genetic Screening Test and Treatment

It is recommended that all people with COPD be tested for AAT Deficiency (Alpha-1 Antitripsyn Deficiency, also called Genetic Emphysema or Genetic COPD), according to the American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society.3 AAT Deficiency can lead to irreversible and progressive damage of lung tissue, which is why it is important to get treatment. The screening is a simple blood test.

The Apria COPD Care Program can help facilitate screening and provides treatments to patients diagnosed with AAT Deficiency.
 

Apria's COPD Monitoring

Ongoing Monitoring to Optimize Treatment

By routinely monitoring, Apria is able to determine if you are responding to the prescribed therapy so that adjustments can be made. Our goal is to work with you to optimize care. And we assess you in your own home so that it is convenient for you.

Along with monitoring over time, we will continue to provide you with one-on-one respiratory education from a licensed Respiratory Therapist. No other COPD care program offers so much, so be sure to ask your doctor for Apria as your COPD care provider.

Therapy Programs

Oxygen Therapy - Apria offers a full range of oxygen systems solutions, and clinical and patient support services to meet patients’ medical and lifestyle needs, including concentrators, gas cylinders, and various ambulatory options.

Nebulized Respiratory Medications - Apria provides a broad range of respiratory medications and equipment to meet patients’ needs. Apria Pharmacy Network (our licensed pharmacy) ships prescribed respiratory medications directly to patients’ homes.

Sleep Management - As a leader in positive airway pressure therapies, Apria strives to help patients stay on their therapy  through a combination of targeted education, equipment training, and comprehensive follow-up protocols.

Home Tube Feeding - Apria’s enteral nutrition program features a network of clinically skilled Registered Dietitians, a specialized customer service team providing up-front patient education, and ongoing clinical support and monitoring. Apria offers a complete product and pump formulary to meet each patient’s needs. Once an individual's needs have been assessed, enteral supplies are provided directly to him or her at home.

Infusion Therapy - Apria Healthcare is the leading provider of specialty infusion therapy services. Apria’s team of compassionate clinicians provides home-based instruction and education to support patient independence. Infusion services are provided through Coram Infusion Specialty Services, an Apria Healthcare company. 

Clinical Programs and Services

COPD Care Program offers you the most at every stage - from complimentary clinically appropriate screenings to first-dose nebulizer kits to one-on-one education from a licensed Respiratory Therapist.

Overnight Oximetry is a testing service for adult COPD and Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) patients to identify the potential need for long-term oxygen therapy.

HeartAssist provides education and assistance for patients with CHF who self-manage their disease. Program benefits include patient education, improved diet and medication compliance, avoidance of risk factors, and overnight oximetry testing. Feedback on pertinent clinical information is provided to physicians to assist in the medical management of their patients in the home.

Apria Great Escapes - The ticket for safe, comfortable travel with oxygen, medical equipment, enteral nutrition, and/or infusion therapy. Apria will assist patients in planning travel to most destinations in the United States. With over 550 branch offices nationwide, Apria makes travel easy.

Corporate Compliance Program

Corporate Compliance

Apria Healthcare is committed to complying with all applicable laws, rules, and regulations and has voluntarily implemented a comprehensive Corporate Compliance Program for many years. Our program incorporates formal guidelines for healthcare organizations that have been issued by the federal Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General and other industry "best practices.” With full backing from our Board of Directors, Apria has adopted a written Code of Ethical Business Conduct that outlines our compliance policies and guidelines, to which all of our employees must adhere.

In addition, all new hires at Apria undergo pre-employment criminal background checks and drug screening tests. Those employees who are responsible for visiting patients’ homes or driving vehicles also undergo randomized drug testing during their Apria career. We also conduct regular compliance training and administer excluded parties checks to make sure our employees, contractors, and vendors are allowed to serve Medicare and Medicaid patients. These efforts help to ensure that we are providing safe, quality care to our patients in their homes.