Baptist Hospital East Home Health Agency

 Our team of professionals stays in close contact with your physician while you are under our care and includes:

• Registered Nurses who administer IV therapy; maintain and replace catheters; deliver special medical treatments ordered by your physician; instruct on wound care and teach diabetic and disease management and monitoring, ostomy care, how to manage medications and how to use oxygen safely.
• Home Health Aides to assist you with daily personal care tasks, such as bathing, dressing, changing linens and shampooing your hair. Aides can also assist you with simple exercises and walking.
• Physical Therapists who can show you and your family how to transfer you from a bed to a chair and other techniques for living with a disability. They can also show you how to adapt your home to minimize your risk of falls and allow you to be more independent. Additionally, they can design a physical therapy program you can do at home to speed your recovery.
• Speech Language Pathologists to evaluate and treat communication and swallowing disorders and provide caregiver training to assist you with carrying over what you have learned.
• Occupational Therapists to help you overcome physical, mental and emotional barriers. This is done through environmental changes and adaptations, coaching, teaching and selection of appropriate equipment to maximize independence with self-care, mobility, socialization, leisure activities and the promotion of wellness.
• Social Workers who make arrangements for community resources and help you and your family deal with any illness-related problems through counseling.
• Chaplains who specialize in helping patients and families as they face illness, life changes, loneliness, grief and spiritual crises.

In addition to these basic services, the Baptist Hospital East Home Health Agency also provides programs to meet special needs of homebound patients, including:

• Affiliated Nursing Service to provide private duty nursing services in the home, nursing home or hospital.
• Infusion Therapy, for patients who need IV management of fluids and medications, including chemotherapy and pain management.
• The Heart Care Program for patients with heart conditions, such as congestive heart failure, or recovering from cardiac surgery. Experienced registered nurses visit regularly, checking on programs and teaching patients how to care for themselves. Physical and occupational therapists may also be called in to help with recovery.
• Mental Health Services to homebound individuals who have recently been in the hospital or are having increased signs of a psychiatric illness.