Home Health Care
All home care services are ordered by your physician. For short-term home health care, goals revolve around helping you heal and regain independence. If you have a chronic health challenge, the major goal is to help you learn how to successfully live with your condition.
Home health care services include nursing, rehabilitative therapies (physical, occupational and speech-language), medical social work, assistance with activities of daily living and education about your condition.
Clark at Home serves adults 18 and older who live in the Grand Rapids area. We work with your insurance company when your service is initiated as well as during the billing process.
Nursing Care
The licensed nurses who come to your home provide a variety of services that are coordinated with your personal physician and other health care providers. Here are some examples:
- Observation and assessment
- Management and evaluation of a care plan
- Medication management
- Monitoring unstable conditions and treatment response
- Teaching and training self care techniques
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Treatments and procedures
- Catheters
- Ear care
- Foot care
- Infusion
- Injections
- Medical gases
- Ostomy care
- Venipuncture
- Wounds
Rehabilitation Therapy
Rehabilitation therapy helps enhance your strength, mobility and safety at home as you recover from an injury, surgery or a medical problem. Licensed or certified therapists begin with an evaluation in your home to identify your individual goals and develop a care plan in conjunction with your personal physician.
Physical Therapy
Physical therapists help you with large muscle movement such as bed mobility, transferring safely from one location to another, walking and using a wheelchair. They also work with you to decrease pain and improve strength, endurance, balance and range of motion. Here are some of the things Clark at Home physical therapists will do in your home:
- Education for you and your family
- Gait training
- Mobility training
- Balance re-education
- Fall prevention
- Range of motion therapy
- Therapeutic exercises
Occupational Therapy
Occupational therapists help you become self-sufficient with tasks of daily living, like dressing, cooking and personal hygiene. They teach you how to conserve your energy and also work to increase your strength and endurance. In your home, occupational therapists provide services that include:
- Activities of daily living training
- Client and caregiver education
- Cognitive training
- Environmental modification
- Fine motor coordination exercises
- Muscle re-education
- Orthotic and adaptive equipment training
- Therapeutic exercises
Speech-Language Pathology
The focus of speech therapy is to evaluate and treat your speech, language and communication disorders as well as swallowing and cognition. They help you recover speech, comprehension and eating abilities through:
- Client and caregiver education
- Oral motor & laryngeal exercise
- Speech production activities
- Language comprehension therapy for understanding communication
- Diet modifications
- Swallowing exercises
- Cognitive-linguistic retraining
Medical Social Work
Social workers are available to evaluate the social and emotional factors that may be challenging you. They also help you and your family members identify and obtain appropriate community resources. Functions include:
- Client and caregiver education
- Counseling
- Assistance with resolution of social and emotional problems
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