Home / Skilled Nursing Care

Skilled nursing care is medical care provided by skilled and licensed health professionals such as registered nurses and physical, speech, and occupational therapists.

Skilled nursing care services may be utilized as short-term rehabilitation care for patients recovering from an illness or injury, or they may be necessary over the long term for individuals who need ongoing care due to a chronic medical condition.

• Wound care
• Intravenous therapy (IV)
• Catheter care
• Injections
• Physical therapy
• Monitoring of vital signs and medical equipment

Skilled nursing care may be covered by Medicare, Medicaid, the Veterans Benefits, or private health insurance. State Medicaid programs have different rules that determine when skilled nursing care is necessary and covered by Medicaid.

The patient is eligible for home health care coverage in certain circumstances after he or she spends at least three days in a hospital or have a Medicare-covered stay in a skilled nursing facility.

However, the patient still needs to meet certain eligibility requirements such as being entirely confined to his or her home and needing skilled care. Also, the person must receive home health services within 14 days of their hospital or skilled nursing facility discharge to receive home health care under Medicare coverage.

Skilled nursing care can be provided in a variety of senior care settings.

Aging in place is something that many aging adults don’t want to give up, regardless of their deteriorating health condition. Today, more seniors are choosing to age in place than ever before, so home health has answered back by offering skilled nursing care services in clients’ homes. 

Home health care services enable a senior to receive effective medical treatment while staying at home and keeping their independence as long as possible.

Aging people who want to keep some level of independence but require support with activities of daily living (ADLs) may need to consider a move to an assisted living facility (ALF). Assisted living facilities provide different levels of care. However, if a resident’s care needs exceed the services provided by ALF, they must hire a home health care agency to come and provide additional services.

Medical social work is a branch of social work that specializes in geriatric, public health, palliative, and inpatient medical and mental health care. Medical social workers typically work in hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, outpatient clinics, community health agencies, long-term care facilities, or hospice, but can also help treat people from the comfort of their own home.

Our medical social staff works on preparing our clients for life after leaving a hospital or other residential setting.  We also provide support to patients and their families in the form of assessing the psychosocial functioning of our clients and their families, including psychosocial counseling, grief counseling, helping the patient strengthen the network of social support, case management, and so on.

The goal of our medical social work services is to help our clients restore the balance in their life, to help that person recover or maintain health and strengthen the ability to function normally in his/her day-to-day life.

We collaborate and work along with other disciplines like nursing, medicine, physical, occupational, speech, and recreational therapy.

Certified nursing assistants and home health aides share many common responsibilities in the field of health care. Both CNA and HHA provide personal care for patients and are focused on fulfilling the patient’s needs with activities of daily living.  

The key difference between a certified nursing assistant and home health aide is in their responsibilities. The home health aide is allowed to administer medication while the certified nursing assistant cannot do so. All home health aides are CNA’s, Home Health Aide is simply put as a CNA who works with people in their homes and not in a hospital or living facility.

The common for both healthcare positions is that they involve providing companionship and taking care of the patient’s activities of daily living (ADLs) and basic needs such as feeding, bathing, changing, replacing bandages and dressings, exercising, etc. Both CNA and HHA are supervised and report back to the nurses and doctors overseeing the patient’s car