Services Provided by Southland Home Care

Southland Home Care provides quality, full service health care to patients and clients in the comfort of their homes. We provide comprehensive, multidisciplinary in-home health care services to promote, maintain and restore health and to minimize the effects of illness and disability. Southland Home Care’s team of knowledgeable professionals is dedicated to excellent, compassionate care for patients, clients and their families.

Southland Home Care is a home health agency who prides themselves on giving our patients the highest quality of home care. Our home health care professionals include RN’s, LPN’s, CNA’s, and home health aides, who provide care to those desiring to remain living at home as well as those who are in need of wound care and skilled nursing.

We work closely with both the patient and the physician to determine the exact level of home health care needed. The care provided may be temporary, consisting of a few days a week for a few short weeks, or it may be essential to be seen daily for a couple of months. Whatever your needs, we will provide the care that is necessary to restore optimum health.

Southland Home Care believes that home care should be more than just nursing attention. We believe that in order to provide the highest quality of care, we must treat our patients like our own family. We select only nursing staff who have strong backgrounds in providing reliable care. We have ongoing training for our nurses and aides to ensure they see patients as more than just medical situations; our patients become our first priority and are as important to us as our own family.

Southland Home Care works with patients and families to:

• Ease the transition from a hospital or other health care facility to a patient’s home
• Return patients to maximum health
• Provide counseling and coordination of community services to meet patients needs
• Maintain patients functions according to individual capabilities, lifestyles and stages of life
• Administer quality health care services within the home when caregivers are unable or unavailable to provide those services
• Instruct them in the fundamentals of health, hygiene and safety as well as the prevention, control, and treatment of disease.

Our homecare services include, but are not limited to:

• Implementation of clinical care plan
• Attention to disabilities, chronic illness, and/or therapies
• Distribution of prescribed medications and/or therapies
• Assistance with mobility and transfers
• Assistance with daily activities
• Performance of personal care
• Preparation of meals and feeding

Skilled Nurses

We provide a full range of nursing services including wound care, IV therapy, diabetic care, catheter care, cardiac and respiratory assessment, medication management, pain management, and cancer care.

Home Health Aides

Nurse Aides provide assistance with daily living activities and personal care.

Physical Therapists

Our Physical Therapist work to restore the mobility and strength through the use of exercise, massage, and other methods in helping relieve pain from a physical injury or a disability.

Personal Care, Management and/or Treatment of the following:

Disabilities and chronic illness

a. Disabilities are impairments of physical, sensory, and cognitive.

b. Chronic illness is a condition that has a long-lasting or recurrent period.

Complex intravenous therapy

a. Intravenous (IV) therapy may be used to restore or maintain the body’s normal fluid and electrolyte balance or to provide nutrition or medication.

Cardiovascular disorders

a. Cardiovascular disorders are conditions of the heart and blood vessels.

Respiratory disorders

a. Respiratory disorders are diseases of the respiratory system. These include diseases of the lung, pleural cavity, bronchial tubes, trachea, upper respiratory tract and of the nerves and muscles of breathing.

Gastrointestinal disorders

a. Gastrointestinal Disorders pertain to the gastrointestinal tract. This includes the esophagus, stomach, first, second and third part of the duodenum, jejunum, ileum, the ileo-cecal complex, large intestine (ascending, transverse and descending colon) sigmoid colon and rectum.

Renal disorders

a. Renal disorder is disease affecting the kidneys. This includes the Bladder, Ureter, and Urethra.

Blood disorders

a. Blood disorders are a condition affecting the blood. Blood disorders affect the production of blood and its components, such as blood cells, hemoglobin, blood proteins, the mechanism of coagulation, etc.

Endocrine disorders

a. Endocrine disorders are a condition that affect major endocrine glands. This includes the Pineal gland, Pituitary gland, Thyroid gland, Thymus, Adrenal gland, Pancreas, Ovaries, or Testes.

Skin disorders

a. Skin disorders are a condition with an infection or inflammation of the skin.

Orthopedic disorders

a. Orthopedic disorder may be such as fractures, dislocations, and other skeletal disorders.

Neurological disorders

a. Neurological disorders are disorders that affect the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord), the peripheral nervous system (peripheral nerves - cranial nerves included), or the autonomic nervous system.

Cancer

a. Cancer is a condition in which a group of cells display uncontrolled growth (division beyond the normal limits), invasion (intrusion on and destruction of adjacent tissues), and sometimes metastasis (spread to other locations in the body via lymph or blood).

Diabetes

a. Diabetes is a condition in which the body either does not produce enough, or does not properly respond to, insulin, a hormone produced in the pancreas.

Wound/Ostomy Care

a. Wound/Ostomy care involves the treatment of patients with acute and chronic wounds as well as ostomy patients, who have had some kind of bowel or bladder diversion.

Post-Surgical Care

a. Post-Surgical Care is the care and treatment followed by the initial surgery.