WVUH-East Home Health Care

WVUH-East Home Health Care is skilled care provided in your home according to written orders received by your doctor. The care is provided on an intermittent or part-time basis only. Our goal is to help you recuperate from illness or surgery in the comfort of home and to help you live independently at home for as long as possible. We strive to promote healing and independence, and speed recovery time while costing less than other types of recovery health care. Since 1996, we have been providing quality home care for Jefferson County residents and we now accept referrals for both Jefferson and Berkeley Counties.

• Nursing: Skilled nurses provide services that are individualized to meet the special needs of each patient. Nurses provide services such as health education, intravenous infusion therapy, wound care/dressings, catheter care, medication injections, drawing blood for laboratory tests and pain management.

• Physical therapy: Rehabilitative techniques may include gait training, evaluation for equipment, pain control, home exercise programs, muscle strengthening or instruction in the use of prosthetic devices.

• Speech Therapy: Specific Treatment programs to assist the patient who has a communication problem are provided. The speech therapist also offers specialized training for patients who have problems swallowing.

• Occupational Therapy: Rehabilitative techniques are used to increase the patient's ability to carry out normal, day-to-day activities such as feeding, dressing, grooming and bathing themselves, as well as performing household tasks. Occupational therapists also construct adaptive equipment and instruct in energy conservation and work simplification techniques.

• Medical Social Services: Social workers assist patients and families when social, emotional or financial factors interfere with treatment or health maintenance or inhibit the patient in coping with disease-induced limitations.

• Home Health Aide: Specially trained aides provide personal care services and help patients perform everyday tasks made difficult by illness or injury. These servides are provided under the supervision of a registered nurse for those patients receiving nursing care and/or therapy.

• Nutritional Services

The Home Health Office is open Monday through Friday from 8 AM to 4:30 PM. The office is closed on the weekends and on these holidays: New Year, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. A nurse is on-call 24 hours a day, including weekends and holidays, to answer questions, assist with problems, or to make home visits as needed.Should you need assistance or a health care need arises when the Home Health Office is closed:

• in a life-threatening or emergency situation: DON'T WAIT! CALL 911

• to speak with the RN on-call, call the JMH operator at 728-1600 and tell her your name, telephone number, and that you need the home health nurse. The nurse will be contacted and call you back as soon as possible. PLEASE DO NOT CALL THE NURSES AT HOME UNLESS THEY SPECIFICALLY REQUEST THAT YOU DO SO.

• questions about your bill CANNOT be answered by the RN on-call. Please call the Home Health Office during regular hours for assistance regarding your account.