Celebrating National Home Care Month

The month of November is recognized as National Home Care Month. South Central Regional Medical Center provides these services through ComfortCare Home Health and ComfortCare Hospice.

ComfortCare Home Health provides a broad spectrum of services in the home, including physical, speech, and occupational therapy. Each of these disciplines has a focus in a patient’s overall rehabilitation and functions within the framework of returning a patient to their highest level of independence. Therapy in the home is often a continuance of a program started in the hospital or a skilled rehabilitation unit, but can be initiated after home health services begin if a need is identified and a physician’s order is received.

Physical therapists work on a patient’s functional mobility, strengthening, and activities of daily living independence. Occupational therapists address issues related to range of motion, coordination, sensory reeducation, strengthening, and fine and gross motor skills. An occupational therapist may work in conjunction with a physical therapist on function of the upper body. Speech therapists have varied aspects of work with patients who have experienced a wide range of illnesses, accidents, and even congenital disorders.

Home Health therapists agree that supportive families are a key factor in the progress that patients make. Being at home allows families to be more involved and participate more actively in “homework” that therapists recommend between therapy visits. ComfortCare Home Health therapists are integral members of the home care team, and provide care that improves a patient’s quality of life and ability to function more independently in their environment.

ComfortCare Hospice is a special program that provides physical, psychological, emotional, social, and spiritual support, and care for terminally ill patients and their families. Hospice enables patients to live as fully and comfortably as possible, with an emphasis on freedom from pain and symptoms.

Services are delivered by an interdisciplinary team that include the patient’s physician, hospice medical director, nurses, nurse aides, social workers, chaplains, dietitians, pharmacists, speech therapists, physical and occupational therapists and volunteers. Medical equipment, medical supplies, respite care, some medications, and bereavement support are also provided. An individualized care plan is designed to meet the needs of each patient and family member.

ComfortCare Hospice was the first hospice organization in our area and has been providing care to terminally ill patients and their families for nine years. ComfortCare Hospice provides services to Jones, Jasper, Covington, Forrest, Greene, Lamar, Perry, Simpson, Smith, and Wayne counties.

For more information about ComfortCare Home Health, call 425-7521. For additional information about ComfortCare Hospice, call 422-0054 or 1-800-300-3443.

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