Home Health Skilled Care

Choose Adventist HealthCare Home Care Services for medical and wellness services. Get care in the convenience and comfort of your home in Maryland from nurses, therapists and other professionals.

Skilled Home Health Care Programs

Feel confident you’ll get high-quality care and a treatment plan that works for you. Our experienced team offers services that are overseen by a highly skilled team. Benefit from:

• Chronic condition management – Care for long-term conditions, including diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and heart failure
• Fall prevention – Help to assess your risk for a fall and make your home safer
• Medication management – Services to understand and safely take drugs
• Palliative care – Care to improve wellbeing for people with a life-threatening illness and their families
• Pain management – Treatments to improve your comfort
• Post-operative rehabilitation – Help to heal and reduce risk of infection after surgery
• Neurological rehabilitation – Therapies to treat brain, spine and nerve conditions, including dementia, multiple sclerosis (MS) and Parkinson’s disease
• Rehabilitation therapies, such as occupational therapy, physical therapy and speech and language therapy
• Safe and healthy at home program – Follow-up services to reduce risk of medical complications and readmission to the hospital
• Wound and ostomy care – Care for surgical incisions, stomas, burns and other types of wounds

Patient & Caregiver Education

Depend on our staff to answer questions and provide information about your condition. During visits to your home, we’ll provide education to you and your loved ones to help you learn to live as independently as possible and take care of yourself at home.

Nutrition Assessment & Care

Nutrition services may be helpful if you have:

• A certain health condition, like cancer, diabetes or HIV/AIDS
• Eating, drinking or swallowing problems
• Feeding tube
• Mental health concerns, like depression
• Trouble cooking or getting groceries

During a nutritional screening, an Adventist HealthCare dietitian will check if you or a loved one are at risk for poor nutrition. Other services include:

• Diet education for specific health conditions, such as diabetes
• Meal planning
• Nutritional counseling and education about healthy food choices
• Nutrition screening

Social Services at Home

Your care plan may include visits from Adventist HealthCare medical social workers and social work assistants. Count on these caring professionals to offer emotional support and connect you with resources in the community. These social services may include:

• Food delivery
• Equipment resources
• Prescription assistance
• Rental and utility assistance
• Transportation

Spiritual Care

Reach out for guidance that can restore your wellbeing and prevent loneliness and depression, whatever your faith or spiritual background. Ask for chaplains from Adventist HealthCare to visit you at home. Spiritual care may help you, your friends or family members cope with:

• Diagnosis or serious illness
• Grief support over the recent loss of a loved one
• Personal relationship or family problems
• Questions about pain or death

How to Get Home Care

Talk to your primary care provider or another member of your care team to learn if home health care is right for you. You may need a doctor’s referral for certain services.

Streamlined Care

Trust us to talk regularly with your other health care providers. We’ll work together so you get the best care, even if your condition changes.

Home Care After Hospitalization

Planning to get home care may mean you can go home sooner after a hospital stay. Dedicated care at home can help you avoid problems that could lead to a health emergency or readmission to the hospital.