Home. It’s where you’re comfortable, it’s where your loved ones are, and with SOMC it can be the center of your health care.
At Southern Ohio Medical Center, we deliver in-home care that helps you enjoy a better and healthier life. We want you to have the best medical care possible at home. We believe home health care promotes healing and encourages your independence. Our services make it easy for you to transition from the hospital to your home and can even help prevent you from being readmitted to the hospital.
We also help family members learn to take care of you in your home, including medication management. We’re here for your entire family with support, counseling and the coordination resources so you can focus on feeling better.
Our team works directly with your provider to develop a care plan that puts you on the path of healthier living.
Staffed by health professionals, SOMC Home Health Services include:
- Blood draws
- Catheter care
- Congestive Heart Failure management
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder management
- Diabetes management
- Home Health Aides for personal care
- IV therapies
- Medication education
- Occupational/Physical Therapies
- Palliative Care Home Care services
- Skilled Nursing
- Wound Care
SOMC Home Health Services provides home and community based services to acutely and chronically ill patients across the life span. Services provided are deemed medically necessary for the treatment of an illness or injury and are physician-ordered. Services are provided seven days a week, 24 hours per day. Geographic service areas include Scioto, Lawrence, Adams and Pike Counties in Ohio as well as Greenup and Lewis counties in Kentucky.
Patients are accepted into Home Care based on a reasonable assessment that the scope of care required by the patient can be met by Home Care Services.
For More Information on SOMC Home Health Services:
SOMC Home Health 740-356-2729
SOMC Home Health Fax 740-356-2735
The after hours on-call nurse can be reached by calling the SOMC switchboard at 740-356-5600.
Home Care practice patterns and standards are in accordance with the following guidelines:
- Medicare Conditions of Participation for Home Health Agencies (42CFR)
- The Joint Commission Standards for Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations – the Accreditation Manual for Home Care (AMHC)
- State practice acts – Nursing, physical, speech and occupational therapies and medical social work
- Kentucky State licensure regulations for home care agencies
- SOMC policies, e.g. administrative and human resources
- SOMC Home Care Structure and Process Standards
Scope and Complexity of Patients’ Care
- Skilled Intermittent Services
- Skilled nursing care
- Physical, speech and occupational therapies
- Medical social services
- Home health aides
Palliative Care Program
Skilled care services are provided by an interdisciplinary team including the RN Case Manager and medical social worker. Other skilled disciplines may be consulted e.g. rehabilitation therapists, pharmacist, dietician or chaplain. Palliative care specializes in the relief of pain and symptom management associated with advanced stages of serious illness and chronic diseases. Palliative care may be provided at the same time as curative treatment. Palliative Care is NOT Hospice.
Who Is Eligible?
Patients who live in Scioto, Lawrence, Adams and Pike counties in Ohio as well as Greenup and Lewis counties in KY and whose physician orders skilled services are eligible.