LMH Home Care Named to Top 500

Licking Memorial Hospital (LMH) Home Care has been named to the Top 500 of the 2014 HomeCare EliteTM, a recognition of the top-performing home health agencies in the U.S. The HomeCare Elite awards are sponsored by OCS HomeCare by National Research Corporation and Decision Health®. The sponsors examined performance data from nearly 10,000 home care agencies to determine the award winners. The HomeCare Elite award is in its ninth year, and LMH Home Care has received the recognition six times. This is the second year that LMH Home Care was recognized in the prestigious Top 500 ranking.

LMH Home Care provides a wide range of services to patients who need short-term medical care after a surgery, illness or injury. Through LMH Home Care, patients can receive skilled nursing care and rehabilitative therapy at home, rather than staying at a nursing home facility. Services are available 24 hours, 7 days a week. The LMH Home Care staff develops a customized plan for each patient’s care, providing a wide range of services. Services available through LMH Home Care include:

• IV therapy & nutrition
• Wound management
• Medication instruction
• Pain management
• Therapeutic home exercise programs
• Home management to improve activities of daily living
• Assistance with social, emotional and financial needs
• Assistance with speech and swallowing problems
• Personal care
• Private duty home health aides

Highly skilled Home Care staff members assist with decision-making processes and represent a wide variety of disciplines. Depending upon the individual patient’s needs, services may be provided by the following Home Care staff members:

• Registered nurses
• Licensed practical nurses
• Home health aides
• Physical therapists
• Occupational therapists
• Speech therapist
• Medical social worker
• Support staff

Debbie Young, Vice President Patient Care Services explained that LMH Home Care staff members are carefully screened before visiting patients at their homes. Debbie said, “All LMH Home Care staff members are employees of the Hospital and have received a thorough background and credentialing check through six separate state and national databases. By Ohio state regulations, home health aides are required to complete 80 hours of initial training and 12 hours of annual in-service education. Home Care nurses provide supervision for the home health aides to ensure the patient’s needs are being properly met. In addition, LMH Home Care is Medicare/Medicaid certified and accredited by The Joint Commission, so patients can be assured that our staff members have passed very strict standards.”

After receiving a physician’s referral, a LMH Home Care representative contacts the patient to arrange the first visit. Together, LMH Home Care, the patient and the patient’s referring physician develop a care plan to address the patient’s unique needs.

LMH Home Care services are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Direct billing for services is provided to Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance or other payer sources. For more information, please call (220) 564-1860.

Seen in the photo: Members of the LMH Home Care Department include (left to right): Mary Reid, Robert Wells, Stacy McConnell, Jennifer Hammond, Michelle Zigan, Bertie Craig, Donya Hageman, Judy Schmitt, Kay Sellars, Vicki Lennon, Ghlee Lyons and Marsha Pfeifer. Not pictured are Cathy Chancey and Susan Hughes.

| Posted On : 12/23/2014 9:58:35 AM