Home Health Services
for Franklin County, OH and Surrounding Areas
Simms Homecare and Behavioral Health Services sends healthcare professionals to the homes of patients in Franklin and surrounding Ohio counties. We provide superlative care coordination plus a broader array of home care services to prevent the care fragmentation that so often compromises the health of patients at home. Families and referring physicians trust Simms in part because we provide care that is both short-term and long-term, medical and non-medical, government-funded and private duty, and more. With Simms, you can trust one agency to provide or coordinate the home health you need.
Categories of Home Health Service
Medical Home Health
Many of the services you receive in the hospital, nursing home, or rehab facility are also available in the comfort of your own home – at a lower cost. We send nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists, and aides to ensure optimal health outcomes, prevent worsening conditions, and prevent unnecessary rehospitalizations. For qualified patients, most insurances pay 100%. Medical home health services include:
- Wound care
- Post-surgical care
- Stroke rehabilitation
- Cardiac rehabilitation
- Fall Injury prevention and gait rehabilitation
- Skilled observation and assessment
- Lab draws
- Chronic disease management: diabetes, COPD, Parkinson’s, heart failure
- And much more
Mental Health at Home
Simms is the area’s leading agency in behavioral home health. Our nurses, physical therapits, and nursing assistants bring extensive experience in mental health. They help patients and their families manage mental health challenges more successfully. This can occur both when the mental health diagnosis is the primary diagnosis in the plan of care and when the mental health challenge is a complication in a medical home health plan of care. Our experience also includes behavior management for adults with a mental disorder compounded by a criminal offense or a risk of criminal activity. The mental diagnoses, conditions, and symptoms we help with include:
- Alzheimer’s
- Dementia
- Bipolar disorder
- Severe phobias
- Depression
- Severe anxiety
- Obsessive compulsive disorders
- Delusions and hallucinations
- Schizophrenia
- And other psychotic and non-psychotic illnesses
Medicaid Personal Care Waivers
Ohio Medicaid has programs called waivers to pay for in-home support for people in with a variety of needs. Simms Homecare participates in the programs. These programs send qualified aides to help with activities of daily living. There is also the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Waiver and many other waivers for various population groups. With Simms, patients can be assured of reliable, professional service from an established agency.
How Personal Care Aides Help:
- Meal prep
- Light housecleaning in areas used by the client
- patient laundry
- Medication reminders
- Mobility assistance and fall safety
- Bathing, grooming, dressing
- Feeding
- Medicaid approves supervision as a personal care service under certain circumstances
- And much more
More About Home Care
Simms sends skilled nurses and/or nursing assistants to the homes of clients to ensure comfort, convenience, health, and safety. Care plans are developed by registered nurses and offer a mix of aide versus nursing service tailored to the needs of each household. Home care services are also provided in permanent and temporary housing, such as hotel rooms and approved shelters.
Service plans may include:
- Medication education
- Assistance with filling medication planner
- Wound care including wound vacs
- IV therapy including PICC lines
- Catheter/Colostomy care
- Development of coping skills
- Dietary education
- Administration of injections
- Perform/facilitate in home laboratory testing
- Assessment for safety in the home/community
Contact us to schedule a no-obligation in-home assessment.
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Insurance pays up to 100%
As a certified agency, Medicaid and most insurance pays us up to 100% for many of the services we provide. Simms Homecare works hard to make sure home health is affordable to all. Please contact us to discuss your situation.