People of all ages can benefit from Assisting Hands Home Care in the transition from hospital, rehabilitation facility, or nursing home to “home care” in the privacy of your own residence, following a stroke, heart attack, surgical procedure, or accident. Our goal is to make the home-coming as easy as possible. We can provide help in the total recovery process by assisting with personal hygiene, bathing and dressing, medication monitoring, driving to medical appointments, meal preparation, and laundry services, to help you get back on your feet again.
Assisting Hands Provides Safety and Comfort at Home
Assisting Hands West Orange will provide a caregiver up to 24 hours a day and as long needed to ensure safety and optimal care for someone who comes home post-surgical or post-illness.
• Caregivers can transition with clients while in the hospital, rehabilitation or nursing facility and on to home.
• Caregivers help ensure compliance with discharge instructions.
• Caregivers assist with home safety by helping with everyday tasks as you or a loved one adjusts to being back at home.
Assisting Hands® Home Care is a state licensed and bonded home care agency providing professional non-medical in-home care. From personal care to homemaking, our caregivers understand your emotional and physical health.
Transitional Care
We utilize principles from nationally successful readmission prevention programs to keep you or your loved one from a returning to the hospital after surgery or illness. Inadequate transition care, non-compliance with discharge instructions and medication errors/non-compliance are all top reasons for readmissions.
The penalties are based on readmissions of Medicare patients who initially came to the hospital with specific diagnoses that include:
• Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI)-19.6%
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)-8.3%
• Heart Failure (HF)-23%
• Pneumonia-17.5%
• Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) Surgery-12.2%
• Elective Primary Total Hip Arthroplasty (THA)-5.6% at 30 days & 7.7% at 90 days
• Elective Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA)-3.3% at 30 days & 9.7% at 90 days
We understand the stress after a procedure or illness. Our caregiver will be a friendly, familiar face to take care of all your physical and emotional needs on discharge to wherever you call home.
Following discharge, your caregiver will help you get settled and comfortable with new medication and care routines prescribed by your physician and recommended by your hospital or skilled nursing facility.
• Medication compliance with reminders.
• Therapy reminders and motivation.
• Accompany and transport you to appointments.
• Home making and healthy meal preparation.
• Companionship and personal care.
• Director of Nursing overseeing care plan and caregivers
Fall Prevention and Safety
Someone who comes home from the hospital for an illness or procedure, is probably drained and exhausted, which can be a recipe for disaster. A person weakened by illness or surgery is more likely to have a lapse in judgment that could lead to an accident or they might be off-balance, which could lead to a fall.
New medications, recovering from anesthesia if a procedure was needed and stress can make a person dizzy, lightheaded or unbalanced making them a fall risk. This is especially true in the bathroom, where water and soap make things very slippery.
A professional caregiver offers peace of mind as you get back on your feet, helping ensure safety as you transition to home.
The Difference Is Our Professional Caregivers
Assisting Hands West Orange professional caregivers are the foundation of our in-home care services. Our caregivers share our core values of caring, compassion, empathy and dependability and a passion for helping others. They consistently score above the national average in independent satisfaction surveys. Our caregivers are all certified after completing a comprehensive education. Then they are trained and supervised by our on-staff Director of Nursing. They are bonded, insured and background checked. The office takes care of all the paperwork and human resources issues.
Take the STRESS out of being discharged and avoid hospital readmissions. Let Us Assist You To Recovery!
Call Assisting Hands at (407) 258-1223 to schedule a free care assessment and conversation with an Assisting Hands professional. Our agency is committed to serving the care needs of clients living in and around Orlando, Windermere, Winter Garden, Ocoee & Apopka, Florida.
