Home Health Care
The Yuma District Hospital Home Health Care Department is a Medicare, Medicaid Certified and Licensed Home Care Agency. We provide Skilled Nursing, Rehabilitation, Social Work, and Certified Nursing Assistant Care.
Skilled Nursing
- Medication set up and reminders
- Protective Oversight
- Skilled Assessment - A skilled assessment takes the knowledge of a trained nurse to recognize abnormal body system changes this would include but is not limited to listening to lung, heart and abdominal sounds and reporting concerns to your physician
- Wound Care - This includes monitoring wound appearance and healing and reporting to your physician. Dressing changes, applying and changing wound vacs.
- Infusion Services - This includes monitoring Intravenous Sites, Dressing changes of PICC line, Groshong and all other central venous catheters. Administration of, teaching and protective oversight of Intravenous medications: Antibiotics, Steroids, Diuretics, Total Perental Nutrition, and Lipids.
- Diabetic Teaching - Includes teaching new diabetics about diabetes, how to use glucometers, insulin administration, self management of this chronic illness, diet, and exercise.
- Chronic Disease Teaching and Management - Registered Nurse educates patients on the disease process and self management of their disease process.
Rehabilitation
Social Work
- Medical Social Worker
- Counseling on Chronic Disease Issues
- Family and Caregiver Support
- Community Services Connections
Certified Nursing Assistant
- Bathing - Includes assistance with bath, showering, or full bed bath depending on patients needs.
- Dressing - Includes assistance with dressing and prosthetic devices.
- Skin Care - Application of over the counter skin care products, observation of skin issues that are reported to the Registered Nurse.
- Other - Provides personal care for those patients that need assistance with ambulation, transferring, have open wounds or other issues that require the skill of a Certified Nursing Assistant.
Non-skilled Nursing Assistant and Housekeeping Service
Provides supervision and protective oversight for patients including but not limited to:
- Bathing
- Dressing
- Meal Preparation
- Medication reminders
- Housekeeping
- Laundry
- Grocery Shopping
Lifeline Systems
Life Line is a easy-to-use personal response service that ensures that older adults living at home get quick assistance whenever it is needed 24-hours a day, 365 days a year.
When you need help, you just press the waterproof personal help button. Within seconds, a certified Life Line Monitor responds, and can summons appropriate help, whether it is a neighbor, relative or ambulance.
