Home Health Services
Home. It’s where you’re comfortable, it’s where your loved ones are, and with SOMC it can be the center of your health care.
At Southern Ohio Medical Center, we deliver in-home care that helps you enjoy a better and healthier life. We want you to have the best medical care possible at home. We believe home health care promotes healing and encourages your independence. Our services make it easy for you to transition from the hospital to your home and can even help prevent you from being readmitted to the hospital. Our team covers the following counties: Scioto, Lawrence, Adams and Pike Counties in Ohio as well as Greenup and Lewis counties in Kentucky.
We also help family members learn to take care of you in your home, including medication management. We’re here for your entire family with support, counseling and the coordination resources so you can focus on feeling better.
Our team works directly with your provider to develop a care plan that puts you on the path of healthier living.
Staffed by health professionals, SOMC Home Health Services include:
- Blood draws
- Catheter care
- Congestive Heart Failure management
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder management
- Diabetes management
- Home Health Aides for personal care
- IV therapies
- Medication education
- Occupational/Physical/Speech Therapies
- Palliative Care Home Care services
- Skilled Nursing
- Wound Care
- Medical social services
- Skilled intermittent services
SOMC Home Health Services provides home and community based services to acutely and chronically ill patients across the life span. Services provided are deemed medically necessary for the treatment of an illness or injury and are physician-ordered. Services are provided seven days a week, 24 hours per day.
Home Care practice patterns and standards are in accordance with the following guidelines:
- Medicare Conditions of Participation for Home Health Agencies (42CFR)
- The Joint Commission Standards for Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations – the Accreditation Manual for Home Care (AMHC)
- State practice acts – Nursing, physical, speech and occupational therapies and medical social work
- Kentucky State licensure regulations for home care agencies
- SOMC policies, e.g. administrative and human resources
- SOMC Home Care Structure and Process Standards
