Navigating Home Health Service Coverage
In the realm of healthcare, understanding what services are covered by insurance can be a labyrinthine task. For many seniors in the United States, Medicare serves as a vital lifeline for accessing healthcare services, including those provided in the comfort of one’s own home. Home health services under Medicare encompass a range of crucial medical […]
What are the quality ratings for home health?
Medicare.gov provides resources to review your home health options. Honestly, it provides resources to review doctors/clinicians, hospitals, skilled nursing rehabilitation services, inpatient rehabilitation, long term care facilities, dialysis, hospice, and medical equipment suppliers using the Care Compare feature. If you haven’t reviewed it, medicare.gov/care-compare/ is a necessary stop on your web surfing today! The quality […]
How do I choose a Home Health Agency?
Home health is a program created and overseen by Medicare. Therefore, programs in general will look and feel very similar to be compliant with the laws that oversee how Home Health is provided. Depending on the state, agencies go through “surveys” at a regular interval (e.g., yearly, every 3 years, etc.) that review the operation, […]
Hospice and Palliative Care
Are they different? YES Hospice is a Medicare program. Medicare has designed and created this program. Palliative is not a designated service. Elite has created its program, so this will look different from agency to agency. Here is a fun way to understand how these two services are different!
What is Hospice?
Hospice is not a place. Hospice is not a death sentence. Hospice is the specific service that is provided when you are no longer seeking curative treatments. The goal of hospice is your comfort to support you in living your life. Hospice is flexible in where it can be provided. Hospice does not require that […]
October is Home Health & Hospice Month
Elite has the pleasure of serving both home health and hospice. Because we are a dual agency, we are able to support our patients along the continuum of their rehabilitation phases and in their end-of-life process. We believe that these relationships that we build with our patients and their families allows us to give care […]
Healthy Aging Month
September is the month we look at how to support healthy aging. Healthy aging is a combination of physical and mental health as well as building community and resources for spiritual and emotional well-being. The aging process changes the mind and the body, and depending on lifestyle, community and social well-being may also evolve (dhs.gov). […]
What really matters
How we approach healthcare matters. As healthcare professionals, our job is to reframe how we look at people’s health and treat our patients with their goals in mind. We are intentional in our approaches to put our patient’s goals as an integral component of their care plan. Our challenge is often to reframe how we […]
Pain is a disease
September is Pain Awareness Month. Understanding chronic pain is critical to how we support our patients on our service. Join us in our learning: Pain Awareness Month – International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) (iasp-pain.org) September is Pain Awareness Month: Complexity and Progress in Pain Research | National Institute of Neurological Disorders and […]
What is Psoriasis?
Psoriasis is an immune-mediated disease* (a disease with an unclear cause that is characterized by inflammation caused by dysfunction of the immune system) that causes inflammation in the body. There may be visible signs of inflammation such as raised plaques (plaques may look different for different skin types) and scales on the skin. This occurs because […]
