Frequently Asked Questions

General Questions about Home Health Care

What is the difference between Home Health services provided in the home and Private Duty Services (or often referred to as Attendant Care or Private Duty Care)?

Home Health services  provided in the home are usually covered by MediCARE, MediCAID or some type of private insurance. We must have a physician order, the services must be provided by a nurse or therapist and the client must be homebound. (Medicaid patients are not required to be homebound)

Private Duty services  are usually paid for by the client or the family of the client.  Sometimes these are hands on services, such as bathing and helping the client by actually providing hands on or touching the client.  Some services are just for cleaning, preparing meals and providing social support to the client.

Is there a difference between Home Health service and Hospice care?

Home Health services  are designed to restore a patient to a prior level of function with the use of medical intervention, education and monitoring from a variety of disciplines including nursing, therapies,   home health aides  and   medical social work  support.  Home Health Services are generally short term treatment in the home for those patients who find it difficult to leave their home to receive their health care.

Hospice services  are designed for longer term support for those patients who have chronic progressive diseases who have been determined by their physician to be terminally ill.  Our desire is to allow patients to remain in the home, wherever that may be.  Some of the goals of Hospice are to provide education related to the disease process, emotional support for patients and their caregivers and after the death of the patient we follow the family or caregivers for an additional 18 months to ensure that they are coping with the death of their loved one.  A variety of disciplines make up the hospice team including: physicians, nurses, therapists, social workers, home health aides, chaplains, volunteers and bereavement support staff. 

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