Home Health

CHRISTUS HomeCare Team Members

Home Health Nurse:
The home health nurse gives professional nursing care to patients at home. Registered and licensed vocational nurses assess patients and teach them and their families. The nurses perform wound care, draw blood, start IVs, maintain urinary catheters and assist with ostomy care. Home health nurses care for many kinds of patients, such as those with illness and accidents, cancer, chronic disease and childbirth. The goal of the nursing is to help patients maintain health, and to teach patients and families how to take good care of themselves.

Home Health Aide:
When a patient qualifies, a certified nurses aide helps with grooming and bathing while patients are receiving home health service.

Physical Therapist:
Physical therapists assess and treat people with problems from injury or illness. They develop individual treatment plans that address disorders of nerves and muscles, limits in range of motion, poor balance, weakness, and difficulty walking or getting around. Therapists teach patients exercise plans that may reduce recovery time and help them reach their previous functional level.

Occupational Therapist:
Occupational therapists assess and treat patients who had injury or illness leading to limitations in activities of daily living. Like physical therapists, occupational therapists design treatment plans to help patients reach their highest level of function. The plan has activities that focus on improvement in dressing, bathing, feeding, grooming and hygiene.

Speech Therapist:
Speech therapists diagnose and treat language and speech disorders. They also help patients with swallowing disorders by teaching swallowing precautions and exercises to help improve swallowing. Speech therapists develop individualized treatment programs consisting of speech exercises and communication techniques.

Medical Social Worker:
Medical Social Workers help with social or emotional concerns that affect the patient’s medical condition. The social worker assesses the patient’s support system, environment and economic circumstance and provides counseling and access to appropriate financial and community resources.