Home Health

Home health care is a wide range of health care services that can be given in your home for an illness or injury. Home health care is usually less expensive, more convenient, and just as effective as care you get in a hospital or skilled nursing facility. Home Health is skilled care that is ordered by your doctor and we provide those services to you in the comfort of your own home.

Home health provider helping a resident at Wellness at Home in Albany, Oregon
Resident sitting on her couch at Wellness at Home in Albany, Oregon

Examples of skilled home health services include:

  • Wound care for pressure sores or a surgical wound
  • Patient and caregiver education
  • Intravenous or nutrition therapy
  • Injections
  • Monitoring serious illness and unstable health status
  • Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapy
  • Social work/counseling services
  • Home Health Aide (Bath Aide)

In general, the goal of home health care is to treat an illness or injury.

Home health care helps you:

  • Get better
  • Regain your independence
  • Become as self-sufficient as possible
  • Maintain your current condition or level of function

Get in Touch

The Wellness at Home expert staff is ready to help answer your questions and discuss the next step for you or your loved one. Contact us today to learn more about our services.

Resident getting help with her exercises at Wellness at Home in Albany, Oregon