HRMC Home Health Agency (A Medicare certified program)
If you or your loved one is recovering from an injury or illness, HRMC's Home Health Agency can help you feel better more quickly – in the comfort of your own home.
Patients recovering from a stroke, heart attack, accident or other illness can receive short-term assistance with a variety of tasks such as taking medication, changing bandages, physical therapy exercises and even personal care.
What is Home Health?
HRMC's Home Health Agency offers short-term health care to patients of all ages who are recovering from an acute illness, in the privacy, convenience and familiarity of their own home. Trained, caring professionals work with you, your family and the physician to develop a plan of care to help you get back on track as quickly as possible.
Your plan of care will help to:
Shorten your hospital stay or prevent re-hospitalization.
Provide care upon transitioning from the hospital to the home.
Assist you during recovery and help you to return more quickly to routine, daily activities.
Work with other community agencies that have resources to help you in your recovery and prevention of a reoccurance.
What services are available?
A Home Health nurse is available to you 24 hours a day to provide you with the services you need. Typically, a nurse or aide will visit you two to three times a week for approximately 30 to 60 minutes based on your need. However, IV therapy and bandage changing for wound care could be provided more frequently.
HRMC's Home Health program includes an array of services for short-term health care, which could be provided for up to 60 days. These services include, but are not limited to:
Assist with taking your medications and monitoring the effects of the medication. The nurse will help you organize and teach you or your primary caregiver how and when to take your medication.
Provide wound care by cleaning the wound and changing the bandages. The nurse will also teach you and your family members the proper procedures for taking care of your wound.
Provide IV therapy for medications, hydration and nutrition.
Provide catheter care and irrigation for several types of catheters.
Provide chronic and acute pain management through medication and other methods, such as massage and exercises.
Provide assistance with personal care, such as safe bathing or grooming.
Assist with activities of daily living.
Provide physicial, speech and occupational therapy to improve movement, communication and daily living tasks as appropriate.
Provide education on recently diagnosed illness or medical condition, such as diabetes, stroke, congestive heart failure or ostomy care.
What makes HRMC's Home Health Agency unique?
Since HRMC's Home Health is based right here in Huron, you will be provided with the health care you need by a familiar face. With a combined total of more than 115 years of experience, a team of nurses, therapists and aides are available to help speed your recovery. The Home Health staff also has established relationships with area physicians, so they are able to work as an intermediary for health care information.
HRMC's Home Health Agency was recently awarded the Outstanding Associate Participation Award from the South Dakota Foundation for Medical Care. The award recognizes that HRMC's Home Health has not only committed itself to the Home Health Quality Initiative (HHQI) but has exceeded participation expectations. For more information about the award, click here.
To see how HRMC's Home Health Agency compares to other state and national agencies, visit the Medicare Home Health Compare Web site.
Who qualifies for Home Health?
Home Health provides services to infants, children or adults who needs assistance due to a short-term illness, regardless of age, handicap, race, sex, religion or national origin. You must be under the care of a S.D. liscensed physician and live within a 20-mile radius of Huron. If you live outside the service area, the agency may, at its discretion, provide you the services you need or refer you to another home care agency within your area.
If you are on Medicare, you must be homebound – meaning mostly confined to your home with the exceptions of doctor appointments, attending church service or a special occasion, such as a graduation or wedding.
Examples of qualified Home Health patients include, but are not limited to:
A patient recently discharged from the hospital, nursing home or veteran's administration facility.
Patients who need IV or injection therapy.
A patient recovering from surgery.
A dialysis patient who needs assistance beyond the care they receive in dialysis.
Who pays for Home Health services?
HRMC's Home Health is certified by the South Dakota Department of Health for Medicare participation. Medicare and Medicaid are accepted for payment of Home Health services. Private insurance polices may differ on the coverage of Home Health and the cost to the policy holder.
If the patient is not covered by one of the above options, Home Health services are also available on a private pay basis.
Who can refer a patient?
Referrals are accepted from physicians, hospitals, clinics, families, friends, interested agencies or even yourself. The HRMC Home Health staff will help you obtain a physician's order and begin the process of receiving care.
While you are hospitalized, be sure to ask your doctor or nurse how Home Health can assist you during your recovery at home.
To determine if Home Health is appropriate, all referred patients will be assessed by a registered nurse or therapist.
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If you or your loved one is recovering from an injury or illness, HRMC's Home Health Agency can help you feel better more quickly – in the comfort of your own home.