Healthy Connections | winter 2007

Home Care and Hospice: Fostering a Healing Environment

When you or someone you love needs care, Excela Health is there to help with skilled nursing, social services, home health aides, hospice services and more.

At Excela Health Home Care, our goal is to foster independence and healthier living for our patients while giving peace of mind to loved ones. We assist patients who are confined to home through illness, injury or convalescence, turning the home into a healing environment. Through Excela Health Hospice, we ensure that terminally ill individuals can remain at home, with emphasis on pain control and symptom management.

Your doctor can refer you, or you may obtain a referral from a nurse, social worker, social service agency or an insurance agency.

To learn more about Excela Health Home Care and Hospice, call 724-689-1800 or toll free 1-800-427-1400, Monday through Sunday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. After business hours, you can reach the on-call nurse by dialing these same numbers.

What We Offer

Skilled nursing for the following:
  • Post-surgery cardiac care
  • Diabetes management
  • Cancer care
  • Palliative care
  • Intravenous therapy
  • Chemotherapy
  • Ventilator support, management and education
  • Catheter care
  • Nutrition evaluation
  • Dressing/wound care
  • Injections
  • Ostomy care
  • Medication management and education
  • Psychiatric observation/safety assessment

Rehabilitation: Physical rehabilitation therapists come into the home to aid in the restoration of mobility and speech.

Physical therapy: Helps restore normal physical function after an illness or injury through exercise and functional training.

Occupational therapy: Improves an individual’s independence through techniques and retraining in activities of daily living.

Speech therapy: Rehabilitates speaking, listening, reading and writing skills. Also focuses on attention span, memory and judgment and swallowing function.

Medical social services: Provides services to resolve social or emotional elements that may impede effective treatment of a medical condition. Palliative care: Symptom management for patients with advanced disease or chronic illness.

Hospice: Physical, emotional and spiritual support for terminally ill patients and their families. Quality of life is emphasized.

Home health aides: Provide hands-on, personal care required to maintain health and facilitate treatment.

Private duty care: Available through CareGivers of Southwestern PA, our private duty nurse registry offering licensed and bonded nurses and aides. CareGivers accepts private insurances and out-of-pocket payments.