Location(s): Onaga
Home Care
No better place to heal, recover, and restore than from the comfort of your own home.
Specialized care and treatment performed by licensed nurses; physical, occupation, speech therapists; medical social workers; and home health aides. Home health is short-term to help you recover in the comfort of your home. Servicing portions of the following counties: Pottawatomie, Jackson, Nemaha, Marshall, Wabaunsee, Shawnee.
Skilled nurses
A home health nurse provides one-on-one care tailored to your needs. They coordinate with your provider to develop and manage your care plan so you can focus on recovering and being independent once again.
- Head-to-toe assessments
- Vital sign and weight checks
- Education on disease processes and medication management
- Wound and ostomy care, including wound vac
- Post-surgical care
- Diabetic care
- Cardiac and respiratory care
- Pain management
- Managing infusion therapy
- Catheter care
Physical Therapists
Physical therapy focuses on improving and restoring the ability to move your body. Physical therapists use exercises to improve strength, mobility, and balance.
- Balance training to prevent falls
- Strength training
- Bed mobility
- Safety training
- Personalized exercise program
- Walker and Assistive Device Training
- Pain management
- Manual therapy techniques
- Evaluating your home for ways to improve safety
Occupational Therapists
Occupational therapy focuses on fine motor skills to help restore skills needed to live independently, such as bathing and dressing.
- Evaluating your home for ways to improve safety or modifications.
- Exercises to help improve or recover skills like bathing, dressing, feeding, cooking.
- Recommending device aids such as- walkers, wheelchair (including wheelchair fitting), grabbers.
- Wheelchair mobility and assessment.
Speech-language pathologists
Speech-language pathologists address challenges related to swallowing, speech, communication and processing information.
- Exercises to strengthen speech and swallow muscles.
- Upgrading and downgrading diets based on patient capabilities.
- Activities to help with memory, problem solving, safety and awareness.
- Alternative ways of communicating (verbal and nonverbal).
Home Health Aides
Home health aides can provide bathing and personal care up to twice a week, when a patient is receiving nursing or therapy services.
Social work:
Social work can assist with resources to aid in short- and long-term planning.
- Advanced directives (living will, medical power of attorney).
- Community resources such as financial assistance, meal coordination, transportation options.
Home health is a Medicare benefit that does not require a copay or deductible for patients who meet eligibility criteria. Other payment sources include Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, VA, Private insurance. Criteria is listed below.
- Homebound (leaving home for short periods of time requires “considerable and taxing effort”).
- Face to face visit with medical provider. A patient must have orders from a physician stating the need and dictating services.
- Skilled care must be deemed medically necessary.
- Care must be intermittent.
- Patient requires at least one skilled professional service.
- Physician directs care in collaboration with home health agency.
**Availability of services based on staffing, location, skill set of providers.
Services Excluded from Community HomeHealth: (including, but not limited to)
- Hospice
- Twice a day visits
- Ventilator care
- Therapy/Aide weekend or holiday visits
- Lymphedema wrapping
- LSVT (Parkinson’s Big and Loud program)
- Alteplase administration
- Repeated IV infusion (will teach patient or caregiver to administer)
- Repeated Lovenox injection (will teach patient or caregiver to administer)
- IVIG administration
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Our agency was recently named a 2023 HHCAHPS Honors Elite Award recipient, one of only 25 agencies nationally to receive the honor. This prestigious award, presented by HEALTHCAREfirst, recognizes home health agencies that continuously provide a positive experience and high-quality care as measured from the patient’s perspective and determined by analysis of Home Health Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HHCAHPS) survey satisfaction measures.
Contact Us
Community HealthCare System
Community HomeHealth
785-889-7200 or 1-800-622-6124
