Quality Home Health Care


	Who qualifies for home care services? To be eligible to receive QHHC skilled home care services, patients must meet several criteria, including: • Must have a homebound status (difficulty leaving or moving about without assistance). • Must be under the care of a physician. • Must require additional care following a recent hospital or nursing home discharge. • Must have short-term health needs. Skilled Nursing: The QHHC nursing staff specializes in disease management and education. They provide skilled services for patients, supervise other QHHC caregivers and coordinate patient care with the physician. Our nurses provide many services, including: • Skilled assessment • Phlebotomy services • Teaching disease process • Wound care/dressing changes • Medication management/instruction • Catheter care • Wound VAC therapy • Infusion therapy • Intestinal therapy • Certified wound/ostomy • Bowel and bladder program • Medical supplies Therapy Options QHHC offers a full range of therapy options to help reduce patient recovery time and assist with problems that accompany illness or inhibit recovery. Our team consists of skilled physical, occupational and speech/language therapists who provide a number of services: Physical Therapy • Anodyne Therapy System* • Aqua Relief System** • Gait training & exercises • Tens unit • Balance and transfer training • Rehabilitation techniques • Home exercise programs • Symptom control education • Ultrasound therapy Pain relief system designed to stimulate healing and relieve pain Pain relief system designed to manage pain and increase circulation using heat and cold therapy Occupational Therapy* • Daily living activities • Work simplification • Fine motor coordination • Orthotics/splinting • Adaptive equipment Speech Therapy • Voice disorder treatments • Speech articulation • Swallowing treatments • Language disorders • Memory retraining • Cognitive retraining Medical Social Worker Medical social workers lend support to patients and families with coordination of community resources, short-term and transitional counseling and alternative living (assisted living or nursing facility) needs assessments. • Assessment of social and emotional factors related to illness • Community resource coordination • Brief individual and family therapy sessions • Needs assessment for alternative (assisted living and nursing facilities) • Transitional counseling Home Health Aide Home health aides are available to assist with patient personal care needs, including personal hygiene. They also provide light housekeeping and meal preparation. • Assistance to patient personal care needs (under the supervision of a nurse) • Personal hygiene • Preparation of light meals • Light housekeeping Dieticians QHHC dieticians develop personal nutrition plans to improve patient health. Services include culturally sensitive nutritional assessments and plans as well as nutrition counseling and education. • Nutritional assessment • Culturally sensitive nutritional plan of care • Educational and resource materials • Counseling		Accidents happen suddenly and unexpectedly. To help patients recover from personal injury, QHHC provides victims of automobile accidents with a full range of rehabilitation services to reduce healing time and ensure a healthy road to recovery. We also offer cost-effective case management services to help guide patients to the proper “next steps.”


			At QHHC, we believe in responding to agency, regional and national health data comparisons by combining best practices and clinical practices to goal of improve the delivery of care services to our clients. The graph below shows the comparison of data from our professional clinicians at start of care and at discharge. Acute Care Patient Hospitalization QHHC consistently stays below the national benchmarked average for sending patients to the hospital. This allows our patients to avoid costly and debilitating hospitalizations. We achieve this standard by working closely with our patients and their physicians. Our patients are closely monitored and our staff is routinely educated on new medications, treatments and disease process management. Medication Management View Our Latest Quality Comparison Report from www.medicare.gov Working together, the multi-disciplinary QHHC team is committed to treating our home care patients to quality care that speeds recovery, reduces costly hospital stays and delivers results. For added peace of mind, all staff is prescreened, licensed and insured. Ongoing education on new medications, treatments and disease process management keeps the QHHC team on the leading edge of exceptional home care. To learn more about the complete range of specialized services available through Quality Home Health Care Services of Michigan, ask your doctor or call us toll-free at 1-866-270-2558. • Comprehensive home care services, 7 days a week • Serving Wayne, Oakland and Macomb Counties • All services covered 100% by Medicare • Most insurances accepted • 24- hour answering service with on-call RN

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