Understanding Home Health Care

Deciding on home health may seem like an overwhelming task. Important decisions about home health care are often needed when you are recovering from an illness, wound, surgery, stroke, or another disabling event.

Understanding home health care will help in making decisions about the care best suited to the needs of you and your family. Home health care is provided when you have a medical need for skilled nursing care and other services, like physical and occupational therapy, speech-language therapy, and medical social services. Home health care is provided by a variety of skilled health care professionals at home. Most home health care is temporary and part-time.

Home health care may help patients reach and keep their best physical, mental, and social well-being. Home health staff provides the care ordered by a doctor. They may also teach you (and those who help you) how to continue the care needed, such as wound care and managing medication including prep (administering insulin & other injected medications.)

Angels of Mercy provides superior nursing services in a compassionate, professional manner, and in strict compliance with your physician's orders.

This is home health care, the way it should be, performing as the eyes and ears of your doctor.