Services

Skilled Nursing Care

Care given or supervised by Registered Nurses. Nurses provide direct care; manage, observe, and evaluate a patient’s care; and teach the patient and his or her family caregiver.

These services include:

• Observation and evaluation
• Client and caregiver instruction for disease management
• IV and IM injections
• Drainage tubes and/or foley catheters
• Ostomy care and instruction
• Wound care
• Diabetic education
• Care of central venous catheters

Physical Therapy

Treatment of injury and disease by mechanical means, such as heat, light, exercise, and massage.

Offering evaluation and treatment:

• Therapeutic exercise, gait training and functional mobility training for orthopedics and neurological disorders
• Pulmonary physical therapy
• TENS and Ultrasound equipment
• Preprosthetic and prosthetic training
• Education on the safe and effective use of adaptive devices to enhance independence, increase safety and reduce caregiver burden
• Home Safety evaluations to identify safety risks and suggestions on remediation of those risks which can lead to unsafe occurrences
• Education on patient-safe stair climbing Home programs for patients and family training

Occupational Therapy

Services given to help you return to usual activities (such as bathing, preparing meals, and housekeeping) after illness either on an inpatient or outpatient basis.

Offering evaluation and treatment:

• Changes in the ability to maintain hygiene and diet
• Disorders affecting sensorimotor, perceptual and/or cognitive problems due to brain dysfunction
• Tightness or stiffness in the arms/hands/legs
• Joint pain
• Decreased endurance to perform day-to-day tasks
• Decreased strength due to orthopedic and neurological disorders
• Wheelchair positioning and assessment for patients that slide or lean out of chair
• Retraining through muscle re-education, fine motor coordination, body image training in patients with neurological problems like CVA, brain dysfunction
• Therapeutic exercise for upper extremities to increase strength, coordination, sensation and proprioception
• Education in safe and effective use of adaptive device to enhance independence and level of care
• Home programs for patients and family training
• Home Safety evaluations to identify safety risks and suggestions on remediation of those risks which can lead to unsafe occurrences

Medical Social Services

Services to help you with social and emotional concerns related to your illness. This might include counseling or help in finding resources in your community.

Speech & Language Pathology Services

Offering evaluation and treatment for:

Neurogenic communication disorders (CVA, Parkinson’s, etc.) Disorders affecting speech, language, hearing and swallowing Cognitive retraining Dysphagia management Voice disorders (articulation, fluency and organization of language) Laryngectomy rehabilitation Aural rehabilitation for hearing loss

Clinical Dietitian

Nutritional assessments include:

• An evaluation of height, weight, muscle and fat distributio
• Comprehensive dietary assessment
• Nutrition education, both oral and written
• Subsequent follow up to monitor changes

Respiratory Therapy

These services include:

• Oxygen
• CPAP/ BiPAP for sleep apnea and other breathing disorders
• Nebulizers
• Suction machines
• Aerosol therapies

Little Flower Home Health professional nurses and therapists conduct detailed assessments of their client's medical and functional status at admission to the home health service. These assessments are repeated at least every 60 days and at discharge. Monthly, comparisons are made between all client’s starting and ending assessments to assure that our services remain effective in helping client’s meet their healthcare goals.