Baptist Homecare: The HomeCare of Choice

Celebrating 20 years of service!
Central Office (865) 549 - 2051 Email: bhshomecare@bhset.org Offering 24-hour-a-day, seven-days-a-week on-call services.Baptist HomeCare offers comprehensive medical services for patients who are homebound. Accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), HomeCare works with patients to provide services that help them regain lost skills and independence.

Comprehensive Services
Skilled Nursing includes registered/licensed nurses with training and experience in providing care in the home.

• HomeCare Aide Services
  are provided by a registered nurse or physical therapist. Typical duties include bathing, dressing and assistance with daily living activities.
  
  
• Medical Social Workers
  assist patients and caregivers in adjusting to emotional, social or personal changes associated with illness.
  
  
• Physical Therapy
  is provided by physical therapists and helps increase the level of functioning by offering gait training, home adaptation and home exercise programs.
  
  
• Speech Therapy
  helps patients communicate effectively and swallow safely. A pathologist works with patients to restore the patient's speech/language and/or swallowing skills.
  
  
• Occupational Therapy
  helps patients whose functions have been impaired by normal aging, illness, injury or developmental disability. Therapists assist to improve memory and planning and with adaptations for vision and hearing.
  

Specialty Services

• Behavioral Health Services
  A team of nurses promotes the health and well being for patients experiencing mental illness or emotional distress.
  
  
• Cardio/Pulmonary Services
  Advanced in-home cardiac monitoring helps patients with congestive heart failure, post procedure monitoring or coronary artery disease monitoring.
  
  
• Enterostomal Therapy
  A certified home therapists provides wound and ostomy care as well as incontinence management.
  
  
• HomMed- An in home monitoring system that monitors vital signs, measures weight, blood pressure, heart rate, SPO2, and temperature.  Vital signs are monitored by the HomMed Central Station and allows clinicians and physicians to analyze patient vital signs and other test results. (Winter 2004 Baptist Health News Article)
  
• Infusion Administration Services
  Specially trained nurses offer pain infusion therapy, chemotherapy and other prescribed therapies.
  

Patient Qualifications

• All Medicare patients must be homebound. Patients do not have to be bedridden to be considered homebound. However, leaving home must be considered difficult. Walkers, wheelchairs or the assistance of another person is often necessary.
  
  
• Patients must receive care in their residence. The patient's residence is considered wherever they make their home. An institution, such as a hospital or nursing facility, is not considered a residence.
  
  
• Patients must be under a plan of care established and approved by a physician.
  Patients must require intermittent skilled care such as nursing or therapy services.

SERVING AN 11-COUNTY REGION

• Including Anderson, Blount, Cocke, Grainger, Hamblen, Jefferson, Knox, Loudon, Roane, Sevier,& Union counties

Baptist Homecare: The HomeCare of Choice
Central Office (865) 549 - 2051
Email: bhshomecare@bhset.org