Home Care | Hospice & Palliative Care | Long Term Care | Maternal & Child Health | Private Duty
Caledonia Home Health Care & Hospice’s (CHHC) Home Care program provides skilled, Medicare-certified, state-of-the-art, compassionate home care services to promote health, minimize pain and suffering, allow you to remain safe in your home, and to be as independent and active as possible.
We work collaboratively with you, your family and your doctor to develop a plan of care that supports your safety and independence from the comfort of your own home.
If you are in need of Home Care services, or just want to find out more, you can contact us and our Intake Department can help you. Call us at (802) 748-8116.
Care is coordinated by a case manager who plans individualized home care according to each client’s health care needs and physician orders. Our team also includes a full range of home nursing and rehabilitation specialists. In addition, our nursing assistants provide help with bathing and other activities of daily living. Our social workers and nurses provide counseling and referrals to community services.
Your home care begins with an assessment visit by a registered nurse or physical therapist, who will talk with you to determine your needs and a plan of care. Other members of the team also will visit, as needed. Your case manager will continue to be available to answer your questions and adjust your care. Visits will continue until your goals are met.
Your CHHC home care team members may include:
- Nurses, including experts in IV therapy, wounds and ostomies, mental health and rehabilitation
- Licensed nursing assistants
- Physical therapists
- Occupational therapists
- Speech therapists
- Medical social workers
Our services include:
- Recovery from Surgery or Short-Term Illness
- Chronic Illness and Disease Management Services
- Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapy at Home
- Home Tele-monitoring Services
Referrals for these services come from a variety of sources: The doctor’s office, hospitals, family members, friends and clients themselves.
To make a referral, please call (802) 748-8116.
Recovery from Surgery or Short-Term Illness
If you need home care following surgery or a brief illness, Caledonia Home Health Care & Hospice can help. Whatever your rehabilitative needs, our qualified professionals are here to help you return to a full and rich life. Whether you need a nurse to change the dressing on a wound, or a physical therapist to help you recover your strength and balance following an injury, we will create a plan to allow you to recover in the comfort of your own home. We strive to achieve comfort by minimizing pain and suffering and by providing support to maximize your independence.
Home care services specialize in recovery care or treatment for:
- Joint replacement
- Orthopedic surgery
- Cancer surgery
- Cardiovascular surgery
- Cardiac surgery
- Lung surgery
- Infections
- Injury
- Burns
- Wounds
- New ostomy
- Temporary worsening of a long-term illness, such as heart or lung disease
- Pneumonia
Many people need both home nursing care and home rehabilitation therapy following surgery or brief illness. We also have nurses who specialize in wound care and IV therapy. Working together, your CHHC team will help you return to your previous condition and activity as quickly as possible.
For more information about our skilled nursing services, please call (802) 748-8116.
Chronic Illness & Disease Management Services
Caledonia Home Health Care & Hospice offers skilled home care services to those learning to cope with the management of long-term disabilities or chronic illness. Our team of home care professionals works with you, your family, and your doctor in developing and providing a comprehensive plan of care to allow you to stay in your home setting. Whatever your needs, we have nurses available seven days a week, 24 hours a day, with day and evening scheduled visits and an on-call service at night.
Your care plan may include:
- Education relating to health, wellness and disease management
- Assistance with managing your medications
- Regular assessment of your current physical status and progress made
- Support in activities of daily living
- Care coordination services
- Referral to additional community services
Disease Management
We offer a home disease management program that provides strategies to help you learn how to control the impact of conditions such as diabetes, asthma, cancer and HIV/AIDS. Care is provided not only to help you understand your illness, but also to help you achieve the best health possible while living with your disease.
Physical, Occupational & Speech Therapy at Home
Caledonia Home Health Care & Hospice’s Home Rehabilitation Therapy Services are there for you when you need us. Our services allow you to receive rehabilitation care in the comfort of your own home after hospitalization, or as approved by your physician. We provide physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy to people who have medical problems or other health related conditions that limit their ability to move and perform activities of daily living.
Our Home Rehabilitation Therapy Services include:
- In-home therapy treatments by a licensed therapist
- Pre-op orthopedic home evaluation
- Home safety assessment
- A comprehensive care plan that involves your doctor and other health professionals
- Equipment recommendations to maintain or promote your independence
- Balance, strength and flexibility training to promote your ability to move, reduce pain and restore function as well as prevent disability
- Chronic and acute pain management
- Fall prevention
Our home therapy services help you stay in familiar and comfortable surroundings, thus promoting your independence, increasing your activity, and making it easier for your family to be involved in the healing process. Care from a home rehabilitation therapist may reduce or eliminate the need for an extended hospital or inpatient rehab stay.
Our Rehabilitation Therapy Staff
Our licensed and experienced staff provides comprehensive therapy for patients in their homes. Our rehab team includes dedicated physical therapists, occupational therapists and speech language pathologists who are the experts in home care for both adults and children.
To learn more about our home rehabilitation therapy services, please call (802) 748-8116.
Home Safety and Fall Prevention
An expert physical therapist and/or occupational therapist will make a thorough assessment of your safety at home and develop an individual program to prevent falls and injury. Your care plan may include adding safety devices such as grab bars, learning safer ways to manage household activities, and doing home exercises to improve your strength and balance. A registered nurse may also be involved to help you safely manage your medications.
Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Care
CHHC’s team is experienced in all aspects of caring for clients with mild to severe memory loss or cognitive impairment. Based on an individual assessment, the care team may include a mental health registered nurse, physical therapist, occupational therapist, speech therapist, medical social worker, and nursing assistants. A plan of care is developed to maximize safety and quality of life for both you and your family. The care plan addresses your medical, social, and emotional needs, as well as providing support for your family in managing the stress of caregiving. Community resources are included, whenever appropriate.
Medication Management
Many seniors take multiple medications every day. Understanding the purpose of these medications, and keeping track of when to take all the pills, can become a challenge. A CHHC nurse can help sort out why, when and how to take all the medicines so that you can get the most benefit from them, and will know when to contact your health care provider about medication problems.
To learn more about our elder care services, please call (802) 748-8116.
Home Tele-monitoring Services
Caledonia Home Health Care & Hospice’s Tele-monitoring Program monitors a client’s vital signs and symptoms from the client’s own home via a machine that transmits the information directly to us. Tele-monitoring has been shown to improve the delivery of home care and to decrease unplanned emergency visits and hospitalizations.
Tele-monitoring is helpful for home care clients with an unstable condition, those at risk for quickly developing complications or worsening of an illness, clients at risk of re-hospitalization or those with chronic diseases such as Congestive Heart Failure (CHF), Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Asthma or High Blood Pressure/Hypertension. Tele- monitoring may also be used to check the effectiveness of a change in medication or treatment.
How Does Tele-Monitoring Work?
We will install and train the client to use the simple, non-invasive equipment in a client’s home. The easy to use equipment monitors vital signs which will be automatically sent via the phone line to our office for interpretation and follow-up.
At a pre-planned time every day, your monitor will prompt you to check your pulse, blood pressure, oxygen level, and weight. The tele-monitor gives simple instructions to perform these measurements and there is plenty of time to complete each task, so there is no need to rush. After collecting the information, the monitor may ask some simple pre-programmed yes or no questions.
All the data is then transmitted via telephone line to our central station computer where your nurse checks the information daily. The tele-monitoring nurse responds to changes in vital signs and symptoms by contacting you to discuss the change. The conversation may result in a repeat test, education about how you can control your symptoms, a home visit and/or treatment changes to prevent worsening of your condition. As needed, the tele-monitoring nurse consults your nurse and/or physician to discuss the best way to help you be healthy, safe and comfortable.
How Does Tele- Monitoring Benefit You?
- It provides the care you need in the comfort and privacy of your own home.
- It offers you the security of knowing your health is being monitored seven days a week.
- You can feel more connected to your homecare nurse.
- Your nurse can work with your doctor to identify and treat problems in early stages.
- You can gain the knowledge to better self-manage your disease.
- Home care visits by your nurse can be made as needed.
For more information about our skilled Tele-monitoring services, please contact (802)748-8116.
