About Mercy Home Care
Personalized Care
Managing an illness, recovering from surgery and recovering from a hospitalization can be challenging. From monitoring patients and educating patients and families about disease management and medications to teaching caregivers how to safely care for the patient at home, the experienced and caring staff at Mercy Home Care work with your health care provider to determine a care plan to help you achieve your goals. Additionally, Home Care staff:
- Communicate with the patient's physician about progress.
- Assist in the transition from the hospital to the patient's home.
- Help frail, ill or disabled persons be self-sufficient, reducing the need for relocation to a hospital or other institution.
- Provide rehabilitation services to restore and maintain movement and strength.
- Help every patient live with as much dignity and independence as his or her condition allows.
- Help patients develop living skills that foster independence and a positive attitude and self-concept.
Advanced Training
The staff at Mercy Home Care’s professional skills and knowledge reflects the quality of care that you can expect from Mercy – the BEST. All of our nurses, therapists, and social workers receive advanced training that complements their experiences gained in a variety of health care settings, including rehabilitation facilities, acute hospital settings and specialty clinics.
Medical Social Worker
Our caring medical social worker helps family members cope with difficult family dynamics and complex health issues. Our medical social worker has many years of experience and can help you determine resources that are available to you.
Services
Mercy Home care provides skilled services as defined by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. We have registered nurses, physical therapists, physical therapy assistants, occupational therapists, occupational therapy assistants, speech language pathologists and a medical social worker.
Note that we do not provide the following:
- Long-term daily wound cares
- Care for ventilator dependent patients
- Care for patients under the age of 18
- Care for pregnant women
- Initial lymphedema evaluations
- Management of IV cardiac inotropic medications
- Management of Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVADs)
- Home bath aide
- Personal services
- Housekeeping
- Daily chores
- Transport
- Overnight custodial care
- Errands (including medication pick-up)
- Personal attendant services
Safety
Mercy Home Care’s qualified and experienced staff have patient safety foremost in mind and are committed to offering home management tips to help patients maintain independence in their home. Our caring staff believe that fall prevention education is essential in keeping patient’s safe in their home and will work with you to prevent falling.
Service Area
We provide services to our patients living within a 50-mile radius, seven days a week. A nurse always is on call and available for weekend and holiday visits.
