Minidoka Memorial Hospital

Extraordinary People Exceptional Care 

 

Home Health Visits
Program Benefits:

Home Health Care

Minidoka Home Health was established in  1993, providing home health care services to the patients in our community. We coordinate with each patient's physician to assist in determining if there is a required medical necessity for home health care. The services for Home Health Care include Skilled Nursing, Physical, Occupational, and Speech Therapy, Social Services, Home Health Aide, IV Therapy Services, and Wound Care Specialists.

Internest Dr. Margo Saunders is our Home Health Medical Advisor. She attends every Patient Care Conference and assists in outlining effective patient care plans. Our program thrives under her great knowledge.

Being home in your own environment with familiar surroundings helps one thrive physically. Home Health can reduce the frequency of hospital days and unnecessary calls to the physician. If you are recently recovering from an illness, accident, or need help in learning to better manage your chronic illness or disability, our nurses and rehabilitation therapists can provide you with the care you need. Personalized home exercise programs will get you on your way to recovery.

Home Health Care is a covered benefit of the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Other financial resources to cover the cost of care can be Workers Compensation, Veterans Administration, an insurance company that authorizes Home Health Care to be a covered benefit of the patient's policy, or the patient can make arrangements to pay privately. Our billing specialists can assist you in determining what is available to you.

Hospice Care

In 2002 we expanded our services by establishing a Hospice program to provide respite and end of life care to the patient's in our community. Providing the complete realm of home care services has helped in the overall continuity of care.

Dr. Don Pates is on hand coordinating care plans as the Hospice Medical Advisor. He attends each Patient Care Conference and is instrumental in our pain management program.

Hospice care is appropriate when the focus of care is comfort and no longer cure. Hospice emphasizes quality, rather than length of life. Hospice neither hastens nor postpones death; it affirms life and regards dying as a natural process. The hospice program stresses human values that go beyond the physical needs of the patient. Hospice ensures that patients spend their final days with dignity and comfort.

Minidoka Home Health and Hospice believes that the essential element in quality patient care is highly trained and caring health professionals. Our interdisciplinary team has extensive training and experience in caring for patients with life limiting illnesses and their families. Under the direction of a physician, hospice uses unique methods of pain and symptom management that enable the patient to live as fully and comfortably as possible.

At Minidoka Memorial Home Health and Hospice we consider the entire family, not just the patient, as "the unit of care." Patients and families are included in the decision-making process. We offer bereavement to fulfill our promise by providing emotional support to help families and patients deal with any unresolved issues, and assist them in coping with their feelings.

Hospice is a service covered by Medicare and many insurance plans. Studies have shown that hospice care is less expensive than conventional care during the last six months of life. Less high-cost technology is used and hospitalizations are less frequent. Patients with life-limiting illnesses are encouraged to talk to their physicians about hospice care.

Private Duty Services

In 1997, we added Private Duty Services to provide assistance with the activities of daily living, including bathing and grooming assistance, meal preparation, laundry, housekeeping, running errands and shopping, or nursing intervention. These services are provided at reasonable rates allowing for patients to remain comfortably in their own home, even on a budget.

If you do not qualify for Home Health Care of Personal Care Services, as previously described, Private Duty Services are right for you. As in our other programs you direct your own care, but you do not have to have a skilled need or orders from your physician to begin receiving Private Duty Services today.

Personal Care - Home and Community Based Services

Minidoka Home Health Agency also provides services under the Aged and Disabled Waiver Program. Medicaid recipients may be eligible, as determined by Medicaid, for this program, also known as Personal Care Services and Home and Community Based Services. Benefits of this program include assistance with the activities of daily living, as listed above. Also, installation of an Emergency Response Telephone, for those qualified, allow an added sense of security to those patients confined to their homes.

 

 

 

 

Home Health Services

Hospice Care

Private Duty Services

Home and Community Based Services

Personal Care Services

Foot Clinic

Minidoka Home Health and Hospice also provides a Blood Pressure and Foot Clinic on the fourth Thursday of every month at 2:00 p.m. in the surgery wing of the hospital. November & December 2009 will be on the 3rd Thursday due to the holidays. Feet are soaked, toenails are trimmed and filed, and lotion is rubbed onto the feet. Light refreshments are served. To schedule an appointment, Call 436-9019.Diabetics will be referred to a podiatrist. Toe nails will only be cleaned and filed.

Staffed By

Licensed By

The State of Idaho Department of Health and Welfare

Memberships

National Association of Home Care, Idaho Association of Home Health Agencies, Idaho Coalition of Home Health Agencies, and National Pallative Care Association

Proudly Serving Minidoka and Cassia Counties including the following cities:

Our patient satisfaction surveys have revealed the following compliments:

"Maria was mom's physical therapist and she was wonderful. Mother enjoyed her visits and Maria did a great job motivating mom without upsetting her."

"My husband will only get worse and I feel great that I have help available so I don't have to put him in a nursing home."

"I feel comfortable to know that  you screen, do background checks, and train your personnel before you place them in our home,. I am comfortable and well pleased with the staff that you have provided."

"Excellent and friendly. Thanks!"

"I can't express enough how important it was to us to have home health, especially in our rural area like Malta. Your agency was our lifeline. Your staff went beyond the required services. With your help our family was able to keep both parents in the home with more specialized care than we received in a facility. You provided training and knowledge to help me as a caregiver."

"I appreciated home health and I was able to keep a routine which was necessary for good healing.

"Prompt and Caring!"

"Thank you all for your extra efforts and hard work. God bless you all!"

Minidoka Memorial Home Health and Hospice          

  1224 8th Street         

Rupert, Idaho 83350

  Phone Numbers:                                                       (208) 436-9019      (208) 436-0481 ext. 169          

 Office Hours:                                                             Monday-Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

           After hours call the Hospital              (208)436-0481

 

 

 

 

 

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