NHC HomeCare Hendersonville

Nursing services include:

• Medication & health monitoring
• Patient education
• Wound care
• Ostomy care
• Pain management
• Palliative care

• Home exercise programs
• Therapeutic exercises
• Fall risk management
• Strengthening and balance exercises
• Post-surgical mobility care
• Heart and lung deficiency exercises
• Prevention, diagnosis, and rehabilitation of communication and swallowing

Home Health Aides provide compassionate care and supervision of routine daily activities during recovery from surgery or an illness, such as:

• Bathroom safety
• Getting dressed
• Eating
• Personal Hygiene
• Prescribed exercise programs
• Light housekeeping

Social workers can help provide constructive support to patients and their families. Working closely with nurses and therapists, they advise on a number of home health care issues, including:

• Identifying local support programs and services
• Transferring to alternate levels of care
• Proposing coping strategies for patients and their families
• Helping to find financial assistance resources
• Providing counseling for emotional difficulties