Home care is a service that provides treatment within the comfort of your own home
Home Health services include in-home nursing and therapy services for those recovering from illness, surgery or managing a chronic condition or pain - at home.
“Home” means where you live. This could be a personal residence, assisted or independent living community, nursing home or wherever you call home.
Home Health works with you and your physician to create a care plan to help you optimize your health and independence wherever you call home. With the additional goal of reducing unplanned emergency room visits and re-hospitalization, a plan of care is developed and tailored to meet your individual needs.
Conditions that may require home care
Home care may be recommended by your physician for conditions including:
- Post surgical needs
- New diagnosis
- Uncontrolled Diagnosis
- CHF, COPD, diabetes, anxiety, depression, dementia
- Changes in medication
- New Treatment
- Catheter, glucose meter, nebulizer, ostomies
- Wound care
- Strength and gait issues
- Stroke rehabilitation
Who qualifies for home care services?
Home Health services are for those recovering from illness, surgery or need assistance managing a chronic condition or pain from home.
To be eligible for home healthcare, a physician must certify that an individual is in need and is homebound.
“Homebound” does not mean bed-ridden, it means that a patient cannot currently leave the home due to illness or injury without “considerable and taxing effort”.
Home care services
Some of the home healthcare services provided by Baylor Scott & White Health include:
Skilled Nursing
- Care plan teaching and training
- Fall prevention
- Cancer care
- Diabetes
- Infusion therapy
- Late life depression
- Pain management
- Stroke care
- Wound care
- Behavioral health*
- Dementia*
*Available in select markets
Rehabilitative Therapy
- Physical therapy
- Occupational therapy
- Speech therapy
AccentCare
On August 1, 2017, Baylor Scott & White Health and Texas Home Health formed a joint venture—AccentCare—to deliver home health services to 53 counties from eleven locations: Brenham, College Station, Denton, Desoto, Fort Worth, Huntsville, Marble Falls, McKinney, Taylor, Temple, Waco, and Weatherford.
Learn more about Texas Home Health Group