Home Health Care
There is no place like home to provide a healing, relaxing environment when recovering from an illness, injury or surgical procedure. It is the place where family, friends, and familiar surroundings make you feel most comfortable - and recover faster. Assured home health services are provided by highly trained home health care professionals dedicated to the care and comfort of our patients. Assured's home health agencies are Medicare and Medicaid certified and licensed.

Home health services offered are:

• Skilled Nursing
• Home Health Aides
• Physical Therapy
• Occupational Therapy
• Speech Therapy
• Medical Social Workers
• Specialized nursing programs such as cardiac, diabetes, pain management, wound care, psychiatric nursing, home infusion anodyne therapy
• Nutritional Consultation

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Home health is paid for by Medicare, Medicaid and most private insurers.

What Conditions Can Be Treated?

• Heart/Lung Disease
• Cancer
• Orthopedic disorders
• Neurological disorders
• Stroke/functional loss
• Diabetes
• Wounds
• Trauma
• HIV/AIDS
• Infectious Disease
• Others as appropriate

Selecting The Right Home Care Agency
Learning as much as you can about a home care agency is the best way to determine which agency is best for you or a loved one. Following are some questions you should ask perspective home care providers about the services they offer.

• How long has the agency been serving the community?
• Is the agency certified by Medicare?
• Is the agency licensed by the state?
• Is the agency in the top 25% of all agencies in Washington according to Medicare on its site Home Health Compare?
• Does the agency assign supervisors to oversee the quality of care patients are receiving in their homes?
• What procedures are in place to handle emergencies? Are the agency caregivers available 24 hours a day, seven days a week?

The following criteria determine if you may be eligible to receive home health care under your Medicare benefits:

• You must require intermittent skilled nursing care, physical therapy or speech therapy.
• You must be homebound.
• You must be currently under a physician's care. All home health services must be ordered by your physician.

Freedom of Choice
According to Federal law, home health care patients are free to choose which institution, agency or person will provide their home care services.

Section 1802 of the Social Security Act "seeks to ensure that free choice is guaranteed to all Medicare Patients." The law states: "Any individual entitled to insurance benefits under this title [i.e., Medicare] may obtain health services from any institution, agency, or person qualified to participate under this title if such institution, agency, or person undertakes to provide him such services." This statement gives patients freedom to choose whom they want as their provider of post-hospital services.

So if your doctor recommends home health care for you or a loved one, ask for Assured!

 
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