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Home Health
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| Contact: | Rhonda Huggins, Home Health Manager |
| Number: | 501-985-7094 |
| E-Mail: | rhuggins@northmetromed.com |
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North Metro Home Health offers comprehensive medical care in the home that allows patients to recuperate in the comfort of familiar surroundings and with the support of their loved ones. Many treatments previously limited to the hospital or nursing home can now be done in the home. We provide care under a plan of treatment ordered by the physician. A Registered Nurse is on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Services provided:
- Skilled Nursing (RN’s and LPN’s) - Our nurses monitor vital signs, obtain lab specimens, provide education to teach you and your family members how to take care of your needs, perform wound care, and administer IV/IM medications as wells as other skills that you may qualify for in your home.
- Home Health Aides - Our aides are trained to deliver personal care such as bathing and dressing in the comfort and privacy of your own home. The aide provides care following a plan that is set up by the RN based on the nurse's assessment, your needs, and with your input.
- Physical Therapy -Our therapists teach you how to overcome physical limitations through therapeutic exercises; they work to help you regain mobility, strength, and endurance after an illness or injury that has caused limitations.
- Occupational Therapy - Our therapists teach you how to be more independent in your home with your self-care needs with such things as bathing, dressing, grooming, meal preparation after an illness or injury that has caused limitations in these areas.
- Speech Therapy - Our speech therapists work to teach you how to overcome limitations with speech/language disorders, hearing disorders, cognitive disorders, swallowing difficulties, and voice disorders so that you can regain or improve in these areas after an illness or injury causing limitations.
- Medical Social Workers - Our social workers can provide counseling to help you and your family cope with the stress of serious illness or injury and the lifestyle changes that may occur. The social worker can also assist with resources by reviewing your needs and providing information on options available to your for assistance with such things as medications, meals, and transportation.
North Metro provides services in a 50 mile radius. These includes Pulaski, Lonoke, Faulkner, White, Cleburne, and Prairie counties.
We are certified by Medicare and Medicaid, accredited by the Joint Commission of Health Care Organizations, and licensed by the Arkansas Department of Health.
Medicare, Medicaid, and many private insurance companies will cover home health services.
We can provide the care you need in the comfort of your home. Make North Metro your choice for your home health care needs.
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