Main Services – Priority Home Health

PHYSICAL THERAPIST

admin — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 16:51:00 +0000

Have you had stroke?
Have you experienced having difficulty breathing?
Have you ever had a sudden pain that just never goes away and gets worst over time?

Many factors affect our bodily function like fractures, sciatica, old age, and many more. It affects your daily activities and can also lower your self-esteem, impacting your mental health.

For you to be able to regain your strength, balance, movement, relieve pain, and gain your confidence, physical therapy is one of the best rehabilitation to start with.

At Priority Home Health, we provide proper and careful aid from our professional therapists to help our patient address their health concerns. We provide a personalized treatment plan that best suits our patient’s needs and uses special equipment when needed.

NURSES

admin — Wed, 25 May 2022 16:57:16 +0000

Our dedicated care professionals provide both around-the-clock and hourly supervision for those struggling with frailty, activities of daily living, loneliness, stroke and advanced dementia or Alzheimer’s. We also provide services to those residing in a nursing home, assisted living or independent living facilities. Our professional caregivers undergo extensive screening and training process, verifying all licenses and certifications. Our team includes Registered Nurses (RN’s), skilled and certified Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN’s), Certified Nursing Assistants (CNA’s) and Home Health Aides(HHA’s). We maintain an intimate and personal rapport with each of our clients. We do not require a long-term contract for services and remain on-call 24 hours a day.

OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST

admin — Wed, 04 May 2022 09:42:54 +0000

Occupational Therapy helps people recover from pain, which is usually caused by an injury or illness. In some cases, for those with disabilities. When a person finds it difficult to take on the regular and simple tasks independently, such as moving around, washing the dishes, being active in physical activities, and the like, the therapy can help the patient adapt and eventually work without any aid.

At Priority Home Health, our Occupational Therapy program is personalized that best fit your needs, so you can recover efficiently and reach your optimum potential. May it be physical, sensory, or cognitive problems.

Occupational therapy is best for individuals who experience the following:

Developmental delays
Inability to utilize your motor skills
Having sensory disorder
Traumatic injury
Post-surgical conditions
Chronic Illness
Inability to focus

Benefits of Occupational Therapy

It helps improve your activity independence
Helps improve strength and endurance
Helps you focus and gain more clarity
Helps with autism
Help prevent from falling
Helps improve memory
Helps with vision loss

Certified Nursing Assistants (CNA’s) and Home Health Aides (HHA’s)

admin — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 20:56:37 +0000

Whether you need help for a few hours a day or your loved one requires 24-hour care, you can rely on Priority Home Health to provide in-home care services that can enhance the quality of life of your loved one. Our team of Certified Nursing Assistants (CNA’s) and Home Health Aides (HHA’s) can provide compassionate and professional care to those suffering from Dementia or Alzheimer’s disease. The initial symptoms may be as minor as forgetting names or recent events, but as the condition progresses, Dementia or Alzheimer patient may wander, become anxious or even act out with aggression. Depending on your situation, a CNA or an HHA can help you with:

Non-medical personal care
Assistance with mobility
Teaching family members about safety precautions
Medication reminders and prescription pick-up
Escort to appointments or meetings
Moving and lifting patients as required
Cleanliness and infection control
Nutritional advice as appropriate
Perform emergency procedures or finding someone who can.
Work with you in ensuring you eat regularly
Companionship on errands or shopping
Planning or scheduling health appointments and social activities
Liaison between family members and other care professionals.

MEDICAL SOCIAL WORKERS

admin — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 11:52:37 +0000

At Priority Home Health, our medical social workers will offer the support and resources that you and your family might need in order to recover from a medical illness or injury, as well as resulting emotional, physical, or psychological concerns. Our Medical Social Workers will consider all angles to determine which factor affects you the most. Then, we can address what you really need through the following services:

Evaluate Family & Financial Situation
Refer to Community Resources
Evaluate Emotional Factors
Crisis Intervention
Medical Directive Setup

Our medical social work services are not designed to provide you with security, especially with finances. We are here to guide you, help you adjust, and ensure you get the proper medical needs from our other health professionals.

SPEECH THERAPISTS

admin — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 17:03:58 +0000

Speech Therapy is a kind of rehabilitation that focuses on speech delay or trouble reading, spelling, people who are having difficulty in swallowing and those who experience stroke.

At Priority Home Health, our speech therapy program helps those with communication disorders, including speech, language, swallowing, cognitive-communication, social communication, pragmatics, auditory processing, fluency (stuttering), and voice disorders and such. Our Speech Therapists are certified to assists a patient’s speech therapy needs be it a child or adult.

Speech disorder affects a person’s ability to communicate with other people. Inability to make the right sound and learn words are really challenging. If you experience these symptoms, consider taking speech therapy to help you improve your speech disorder.

Stuttering
Adding unnecessary sounds or words when speaking
Frequently make jerky movements while speaking.
Frequent blinking
Word Repetition
Prolongations of sounds
Lip tremors
Mumbling
Extremely quiet
Difficulty moving your tongue or your mouth

You may wonder how speech disorders develop. Although a number comes from a disability since birth, few factors can affect it too, such as:

Psychological trauma
Dementia
Down Syndrome
Hearing Loss
Damaged Vocal Cords
Muscle Weakness
Stroke

CAREGIVER SERVICES

admin — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 09:23:50 +0000

Caregivers as companions will provide assistance with personal care & hygiene, light housekeeping, grocery shopping, medication reminders, play cards & games or read to the individuals.

Priority Home Health provides a variety of services to help you recover and regain your independence.

Part of of that goal is to help you learn about your disease process, medication, potential complications and the importance of you being involved in your own health care.