Patient Services

At XL Care Home Health Agency we are dedicated to provide compassionate, quality care in the comfort of your home. We offer a full spectrum of services ranging from non-medical, personal care to home health, skilled nursing, therapy and medical social services.

Skilled Nursing

Our registered and licensed practical nurses are qualified, educated and well trained to provide our clients the appropriate and adequate skilled care that they need. They are focused on helping every client attain and regain personal independence.

Our skilled nursing services include, but are not limited to:

  • Treatment and Injections
  • Monitoring of Vital Signs
  • Ostomy Care
  • Monitoring Response to New and Changed Medications
  • G Tube / J Tube / Feeding Care
  • Tracheostomy Care
  • Care of Terminally Ill
  • Colostomy / Ileostomy / G Tube/ NET Tube
  • Indwelling Catheters and Nephrostomy Care
  • Pain Management
  • Case Management
  • Drawing Blood and Specimen Collection
  • Diabetes Education and Management
  • Teaching of Disease Process and Management
  • Intravenous Infusion (PICC, Central lines)
  • Pre-Op and Post-Op Care
  • Wound Care (VAC therapy)
  • Assessments and Teaching of Meds
  • IV Therapy
  • Patient and Caregiver Teaching
  • Drainage Tube Care

Physical Therapy

Our Physical Therapists are highly skilled and trained to help clients progress in their ability to perform activities for daily living. They will provide an In-Home Therapy Program, as needed, in the comforts of the clients’ homes.
They will assure that family members and friends receive appropriate information regarding necessary arrangements for outpatient services and help facilitate their transition.
Services include:

  • Provide Individual Therapeutic Exercises and Instructions
  • Pain Management (UltraSound, Heat/Cold and Massage Therapies)
  • Instruction / Training on Activities of Daily Living (walking, getting in/out of bed, transferring, other)
  • Management and Evaluation of Care Plan
  • Therapeutic Exercise
  • Transfer Training
  • Establish / Upgrade HEP (Home Excercise Program)
  • Gait Training
  • Home Safety Evaluations
  • Safe Use of Assistive Devices (e.g., Walker, Cane, Wheelchair, Hoyer Lift)
  • Provide Written Instructions
  • PT Evaluation
  • Teach Safety Precautions
  • Educate Bed Mobility Skills
  • Instruct Use of Assistive Devices
  • Teach Safe Stair Climbing Skills
  • Pulmonary PT
  • Fabrication of Orthotic Device
  • Muscle Re-Education
  • Balance Training
  • Patient / Caregiver / Family Education

Occupational Thearapy

Our Occupational Therapists have the knowledge and skills to assist clients to progress in their ability to perform activities of daily living. They will establish a specific plan of care tailored to meet the clients’ goals for speedy recovery at their homes. Our therapists will help the clients’ loved ones understand and comprehend the necessary resources to ensure the clients’ achievement of personal and physical independence.
Patients who have had a stroke or cardiac episode, spinal cord injury, orthopedic surgery or arthritis can all benefit from occupational therapy services.
Our occupational therapy services include, but are not limited to:

  • Design and teach individual therapeutic exercises to restore patient’s function, lost due to disease or surgical intervention
  • OT Evaluation
  • Home Safety Evaluation
  • Independent Living / ADL Training
  • Muscle Re-Education
  • Perceptual Motor Training
  • Fine Motor Coordination
  • Patient / Caregiver / Family Education
  • Therapeutic Exercise for Upper Extremities
  • Establish / Upgrade HEP (Home Excercise Program)
  • Re-Training of Cognitive, Feeding and Perceptual Skills
  • Assist patientsin restoring functional independence, self care, and other activities of daily living, bathroom safety, energy conservation, teach special devices that increase independent functions
  • Teach Home Safety Precautions
  • Instruct Use of Adaptive Devices
  • Teach Alternative Bathing Skills
  • Neuro-Developmental Training
  • Sensory Treatment
  • Orthotics / Splinting
  • Adaptive Equipment (Fabrication & Training)
  • Provide Written Instructions

Speech Therapy

Our Speech Therapists are extensively trained and highly competent to help clients achieve goals as established by their physicians. They will provide an In-Home Therapy Program, as needed, in the comforts of the clients’ homes. Our therapists will assure that family members and friends are well informed about specific resources that can help facilitate the clients’ transition at home. Our speech therapy services include, but are not limited to:

  • Evaluate speech, swallowing, and language disorders
  • Voice Disorders
  • Speech Articulation Disorders
  • Dysphagia Treatments
  • Aural Rehabilitation
  • Non-Oral Communication
  • Patient / Caregiver / Family Education
  • Establish / Upgrade HEP
  • Provide Written Instructions
  • Lip / Tongue / Facial Exercises to Improve
    Swallowing / Vocal Skills
  • Design procedures to facilitate and restore communication and functional swallow.
  • VITALSTIM Therap

 

  • Alaryngeal Speech Skills
  • Food Texture Recommendations
  • Safe Swallowing Evaluation
  • Teach / Develop Communication System
  • Speech Dysphagia Program
  • Therapy to Increase Articulation, Proficiency &
    Verbal Expression

Medical Social Services

Our medical social workers are highly educated and experienced in providing adequate and appropriate counseling that will assist you in dealing with emotional and social factors that are related to a patient illness. 

  • Perform home assessments to identify social, emotional, and financial concerns of family and patient
  • Assist with community resources and personal counseling
  • Community Resource Planning
  • Identify Eligibility for Services & Benefits
  • Nursing Home Placement
  • Alternate Living Arrangements
  • Arrange Transportation for Medical Appointments
  • Emotional Support to Patient / Client / Family
  • Financial Resource Information
  • Arrangement of Meal Services
  • Initiate Referral to Personal Emergency Response System
  • Teach Self-Management Skills
  • Crisis Intervention

Home Health Aides

Our home health aides are highly trained in providing skilled personal care, meal preparation, ambulation, exercises and other daily activities that a client may need. Our home health aides are always under professional supervision to assure quality home care services are being provided.

Our home health aide services include, but are not limited to:

  • Assist with Bed / Tub / Shower
  • Assist with Dressing Changes
  • Hair Care
  • Brush / Shampoo
  • Skin Care
  • Foot Care
  • Shave / Groom / Deodorant
  • Nail Hygiene
  • Oral Care
  • Assist Catheter Care
  • Ostomy Care
  • Reinforce Dressing
  • Assist with Medication

 

  • Ambulation Assist with Walker / Cane
  • Mobility Assist with Chair / Bed
  • Dangle / Commode / Shower
  • Meal Preparation
  • Wash Clothes
  • Light Housekeeping

Honeywell HomMed Health Monitoring

Honeywell HomMed Health Monitoring System is accurately assesses people’s health, over time, in the environments where they live, work, and play so they can live more productive lives. Through its state-of-the-art medical monitoring equipment, technological support, and industry expertise, it provides individuals and the clinicians treating them easy-to-use, cost efficient remote monitoring solutions. 

This HONEYWELL HOMMED remote Monitoring System, an FDA Class II, Hospital Grade, Medical Device, which allows early detection and intervention, thus reducing avoidable skilled nursing visits, hospital re-admissions, and unnecessary physician and emergency room visits. This Device is installed in patient’s home. It allows daily monitoring of patient’s Blood Pressure, Heart Rate, Weight up to 500 pounds, and Oxygen saturation. The data is automatically transmitted to our agency. All abnormal values are identified and appropriate actions are taken. Monitor’s verbal and visual cues are available in 14 languages.

With This System, We are Now Able to:

  • Manage patients seven days per week in addition to scheduled visits.
  • Be more proactive in our care and make home visits based on patient need.
  • Track and trend patient data in the form of graphic and tabular reports for review and assessment.

What our agency was able to accomplish using the Honeywell HomMed

  • Enhance outcomes
  • Be preemptive and proactive in patient care
  • Decrease unnecessary emergent care episodes
  • Enforce patient education and self-management
  • Improve compliance and create long-term lifestyle changes
  • Provide our patients with higher quality of life