Pioneer Memorial Home Health

Pioneer Memorial Home Health combines top quality medical care with all the comforts of home. We provide personalized care tailored to fit into the patients’ routine of daily living. Our team cares for people with prolonged illnesses, those recuperating from a hospital stay and those with disabilities. We provide direct patient care, instruction on special needs associated with an illness, rehabilitative exercises, training and support to those providing the day-to-day care.

Home care services are provided in the patients’ place of residence by our professional staff of Registered Nurses, Speech Pathologists, Occupational Therapists, and Physical Therapists. Other services are available, depending on the patients’ needs. Personal care is provided by State Certified Home Health Aides. Social Services for assistance with home and community living is also available.

We can also arrange for the provision of durable medical equipment (DME). These items include hospital beds, commodes, wheelchairs, walkers, and any necessary pulmonary health equipment such as home oxygen. Instruction in the appropriate use of all equipment is provided.

Medicare, Medicaid and private Insurance will pay for home visits for patients that qualify and have a medical necessity. The Home Health office staff can assist in clarifying coverage.

Lifeline

Pioneer Memorial Home Care Services can assist you or your family member in obtaining Personal Response and Support Services through Lifeline (R). Lifeline is an easy-to-use personal response service that ensures people living alone get quick assistance whenever it is needed – 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Help is summoned by pressing the waterproof Personal Help Button worn as a pendant or wristband. Within seconds, a certified Lifeline monitor responds, assesses the situation and summons appropriate help, whether it is a neighbor, relative or ambulance.

Life is unpredictable. An unexpected fall or medical emergency could threaten your future health if help is delayed. For a little more than a dollar a day, help is assured. Lifeline is NOT just for medical emergencies. The services also allows you to answer the telephone without having to rush to grab a handset and risk falling, enjoy a stronger sense of well-being and maintain your peace of mind knowing that help is just a press-of-a-button away.

Pioneer Memorial Hospice

Pioneer Memorial Hospice is organized, staffed and equipped to provide professional services to the terminally ill patient and their family on an intermittent basis at his/her place of residence.

The hospice staff brings crucial elements of medical and nursing care to the person’s home, and offers practical and emotional support for patients and their families. Our program helps many patients to be alert, comfortable, and free of pain as they live their final days in a familiar place surrounded by people they know and love. These services are provided by a team of trained professionals, physicians, nurses, counselors, therapists, volunteers and aides make up the hospice interdisciplinary team.

Hospice should be considered when a patient and the physician determine that curative treatments are no longer effective or desired, and life expectancy can be measured in weeks or months rather than years. Referral can be made by physicians or social service agencies, as well as direct requests by the patient, family or primary caregiver.

Reimbursement for hospice services is available through Medicare, Medicaid and most private insurance companies. Care is not withheld because of inability to pay. Assistance is available from contributions, fundraisers, and donations made to the hospice program.