Who, What, and Why Old Dominion Home Health Services operates.

1. What Is Home Health Care?
Home health care is a wide range of health care
services that can be given in your home. Home
health care is usually less expensive, more
convenient, and just as effective as care you get
in a hospital or skilled nursing facility.

2. Founded in 1995.
Nurses still make “House Calls”.
We partner with patients, physicians and
caregivers to ensure optimal healthcare at home.
Service available 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

3. In general, home health care includes part-time or
intermittent skilled nursing care, and other skilled
care services like physical therapy, occupational
therapy, and speech therapy. Services may also
include medical social services or assistance from a
home health aide. Usually, a home health care
agency coordinates the services your doctor orders
for you.

4. Examples of skilled home health services include:
Wound care for pressure sores or a surgical
wound
Physical and occupational therapy
Speech Therapy
Patient and caregiver education
Intravenous or nutrition therapy
Injections
Monitoring serious illness and unstable health
status

5. Examples of home health aide services include:
Help with basic daily activities like getting in
and out of bed, dressing, bathing, eating, and
using the bathroom
Help with light housekeeping, laundry,
shopping, and cooking for the patient

6. Skilled and Professional Nursing Care Provided by:
Registered Nurses
Licensed Practical Nurses
Certified Nursing Assistants
Physical Therapists
Speech Therapists
Nutritionist
Medical Social Workers

7. Registered Nurse:
Is responsible for the needs of patients suffering from illness or injury,
and can provide care and cater to the needs of patients in a variety of
settings, including operating rooms, ambulatory care, intensive care,
physicians offices, health care clinics or specialized practices.
Observing and recording patient medical history and symptoms
Establishing a plan of care for patients or adding to an existing one then
putting the plan into action
Managing and assigning tasks to licensed practical nurses and nursing
assistants
Advising and providing emotional support for patients and their
families

8. Licensed Practical Nurse:
Working under the direction of physicians and registered nurses, LPNs
attend to patients in a number of ways.
Take vital signs
Gather patient health information
Prepare and deliver injections
Assist patients in personal hygiene tasks
Collect lab samples and perform routine lab tests
Help care for and feed infants
Teach patients and family members about good health habits
Supervise nursing assistants and aides

9. Certified Nursing Assistant:
is a skilled professional who assists patients under the supervision of registered nurse or licensed
practical nurse. Nursing assistant jobs include many important practical tasks, including:
Responding to patient call signals
Turning and repositioning bedridden patients to prevent bedsores
Measuring and recording vital signs, as well as food and liquid intake and output
Feeding patients who cannot feed themselves
Helping patients get dressed or undressed
Applying dressings to wounds
Supervising exercise routines
Preparing patients for surgery, treatment or examination
Transporting patients in wheelchairs or stretchers
Tidying rooms and changing linens
Helping to set up and operate medical equipment
Assisting with medical procedures

10. Physical Therapists:
Provide services that help restore function, improve mobility, relieve pain,
and prevent or limit permanent physical disabilities of patients with injuries
or disease. PTs work closely with patients to restore, maintain, and promote
their overall fitness and health. Patients may include accident victims and
individuals with disabling conditions such as low back pain, fractures, head
injuries, arthritis, heart disease, and cerebral palsy.
PTs examine patients' medical histories, then test and measure their strength,
range of motion, balance and coordination, posture, muscle performance,
respiration, and motor function. They also determine the patient's ability to be
independent and reintegrate into the community or workplace after injury or
illness. Finally, they develop treatment plans describing a treatment strategy,
its purpose, and the anticipated outcome.

11. Speech Therapists:
Work with people who have a variety of speech-related
disorders. These disorders can include the inability to
produce certain sounds, speech rhythm and fluency
problems, and voice disorders. They also help people
who want to modify accents or who have swallowing
difficulties. Speech pathologists' work involves
assessment, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of
speech-related disorders.

12. Speech Therapists:
Short but intensive rounds of speech therapy may be better for
restoring language skills lost to a stroke than traditional methods.
Researchers found stroke survivors who had difficulty speaking or
understanding speech showed significant improvement in language
and communication skills after a short term of intensive speech
therapy.
Language impairment -- or aphasia -- occurs in more than a third of
people who survive a stroke on the left side of their brain. Many
recover within a few months after the stroke, but up to 60% still have
language impairments more than six months after a stroke, a condition
known as chronic aphasia.

13. Our Goals
Provide only the highest quality nurses to meet
our client's home health care needs.
Professionally administer care for the varied needs
of our clients needs.
Prevent unnecessary hospitalizations.
Prepare for positive patient outcomes.

14. Thank You!
8014 Midlothian Turnpike, Suite 312
N. Chesterfield, VA 23235
Phone 804.745.5133
Fax 804.745.5526
Email info@odhhs.org