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Outpatient Services
Home Health Care
When you need home health care services, you want to know that you will receive individualized, quality care from a wide range of competent health professionals. Medina Memorial's Home Care Service is the place where your needs will be met.
To demonstrate our commitment to the highest levels of patient care, Medina Memorial Home Care has chosen to become accredited by the Joint Commission, an accreditation organization whose standards are regarded as the most rigorous in the industry. The Joint Commission's gold seal of approval is a clear sign that the accredited organization has demonstrated compliance to the most stringent standards of performance.
Our staff of Registered Nurses, Home Health Aides, Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech/Language Therapists, Medical Social Workers, and Clinical Dieticians are committed to meeting your specific needs in regaining or maintaining your health and independence. Your individual needs are met by these skilled professionals with compassion, competency and caring.
Whatever your needs may be - wound care, monitoring of vital signs or changes in condition, assistance with personal care or exercise routines, learning how to give yourself an injection, monitoring your blood sugars, or receiving physical, occupational, or speech/language therapies – choose Medina Memorial Home Care with confidence as so many people have since 1987. Call (585) 798-5054 for information.
How Do You Get Home Health Care Services?
All home care services must be ordered and approved by your doctor. For hospitalized patients who are about to go home, your hospital discharge planner will work with one of Medina Memorial's home care nurses and your doctor to develop an individualized plan of care for you to meet your specific needs.
If your illness or injury hasn't required hospitalization, but you and your doctor believe you can benefit from home care services, call Medina Memorial's Home Care Service to set up an appointment. A Registered Nurse will conduct an individual evaluation of your needs.
What About Insurance Coverage?
Health insurances have specific requirements regarding coverage for home care services. Our staff will help you to determine what your insurance coverage is. People may pay privately for home care if their insurance doesn't cover a service.
What Our Professional Caregivers Do
Registered Nurses
Registered Nurses at Medina Memorial Home Care supervise your care. They coordinate, manage and provide care. They assist you with medications, dressings, skin care, and monitoring vital signs and blood sugar levels. Registered nurses help you learn how to give yourself injections if you need that skill and they offer you and your family education on your condition.
Home Health Aides
Home care aides help meet your individual needs by assisting you with personal care, exercise routines, meal planning and preparation, and light housekeeping. They are often the "eyes and ears" of your home care team, observing and reporting changes in your condition or abilities to other professional team members to ensure your personalized care is coordinated among them and reported to your doctor.
Physical, Occupational and Speech/Language Therapists
Before an illness or injury, you handle daily activities without a thought. But a stroke, fall, heart attack, accident, surgery, or sudden illness can interfere with your ability to move, breathe or speak. Medina Memorial's Home Care Physical, Occupational and Speech/Language Therapists help you to regain your health and independence.
Physical Therapists
Physical therapists are professionals who concentrate on your mobility. They help restore your strength, balance, endurance, coordination, and flexibility so you can recover and work toward preventing future problems. They may recommend assistive devices and equipment that help you to reach your goals.
Occupational Therapists
Occupational therapists are the professionals who concentrate on the daily living tasks that we take for granted before we're ill or injured. Occupational therapists help you regain the ability to feed yourself, bathe, handle personal hygiene matters, write, and meet any of the other many requirements associated with living. Sometimes the aging process is associated with losses, such as failing eyesight, decreased endurance, and reduced hand coordination. Losses like these require learning new ways to cope with daily living tasks. Occupational therapists are experts at helping people find these new ways, and go on with life.
Speech/Language Therapists
Head injuries, strokes, and other conditions often affect a person's ability to speak and understand language. Using an evaluation and treatment plan, our speech/language therapists work on such areas as listening, understanding, cognitive delays, swallowing disorders, stuttering, memory and word retrieval.
Medical Social Worker
Working with a medical social worker is a great advantage for people who want to stay independent. Social workers are the people who know how to gain help and services that are urgently needed. They are trained to help you gain access to governmental and community services and support groups. They offer financial advice and help you access financial resources. Medical Social Workers offer services for people of every income and educational level.
Medical Social Workers can help you with advance directives and health care proxies, provide social/emotional counseling, and offer support if you're grieving. In addition, they are experienced at helping people understand the complexities of Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. Help from social workers through Medina Memorial's Home Care Service helps most people to maintain their independence and stay safely in their own homes.
Clinical Dietician
Medina Memorial's Home Care Service recognizes the important role a sound diet plays in the life and health of every person. The services of a clinical dietitian are available to assesses your nutritional needs and offers guidance. Such advice is especially useful for people with diabetes, weight management, kidney disease, heart disease, irritable bowel syndrome, or any other condition that requires a carefully monitored approach to eating. A clinical dietitian also offers advice on the potential interactions of foods with medications, and can provide shopping and meal preparation advice to limit sodium, fat, and high cholesterol foods.
For more information, or to arrange for an Admission Nurse to visit your home to discuss the services you may need, call Medina Memorial Home Care now at (585) 798-5054.
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