Home care is a service that provides treatment within the comfort of your own home

Home Health services include in-home nursing and therapy services for those recovering from illness, surgery or managing a chronic condition or pain - at home.

“Home” means where you live. This could be a personal residence, assisted or independent living community, nursing home or wherever you call home.

Home Health works with you and your physician to create a care plan to help you optimize your health and independence wherever you call home. With the additional goal of reducing unplanned emergency room visits and re-hospitalization, a plan of care is developed and tailored to meet your individual needs.

 

Conditions that may require home care 

Home care may be recommended by your physician for conditions including:

  • Post surgical needs
  • New diagnosis
  • Uncontrolled Diagnosis
    •  CHF, COPD, diabetes, anxiety, depression, dementia
  • Changes in medication
  • New Treatment
    • Catheter, glucose meter, nebulizer, ostomies
  • Wound care
  • Strength and gait issues
  • Stroke rehabilitation

Who qualifies for home care services?

Home Health services are for those recovering from illness, surgery or need assistance managing a chronic condition or pain from home. 

To be eligible for home healthcare, a physician must certify that an individual is in need and is homebound. 

“Homebound” does not mean bed-ridden, it means that a patient cannot currently leave the home due to illness or injury without “considerable and taxing effort”.

 

Home care services

Some of the home healthcare services provided by Baylor Scott & White Health include:

Skilled Nursing

*Available in select markets

Rehabilitative Therapy

AccentCare

On August 1, 2017, Baylor Scott & White Health and Texas Home Health formed a joint venture—AccentCare—to deliver home health services to 53 counties from eleven locations: Brenham, College Station, Denton, Desoto, Fort Worth, Huntsville, Marble Falls, McKinney, Taylor, Temple, Waco, and Weatherford.

Learn more about Texas Home Health Group

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