Essential Home Health Care Home Health Programs
Home Care Chicago
Home Care in Chicago & Suburbs
Essential Home Health Care provides complete health services in the privacy and comfort of your own home. Our objective is to provide you with the most compassionate and competent treatment possible during your sickness and recovery. Because of the care and services offered by Essential Home Health, longer hospitalization and nursing home admission are often unnecessary.
Home Care | What Is It?
Home care services comprise any professional support services that enable a person to live comfortably at home. In-home care services can support someone who is aging and requires assistance to live independently, someone who is managing chronic health difficulties, someone who is recuperating from a medical setback, or someone who has special needs or a handicap. Professional caregivers, such as nurses, aides, and therapists, provide either short-term or long-term care in the home, depending on the needs of the individual.
Comfort Keepers | You Need Care Where You Love
Home care can be the key to achieving the maximum potential quality of life. It can provide safety, security, and increased independence; it can help manage an ongoing medical condition; it can help avoid unnecessary hospitalization, and it can aid in recovery after an illness, injury, or hospital stay—all while providing care in the comfort and familiarity of one’s own home. Essential’s Home care includes:
- Assist with daily tasks such as dressing and bathing.
- Assisting with the safe completion of household tasks
- Companionship
- Services for therapy and rehabilitation
- Nursing care for a short or long period for an illness, disease, or handicap, including tracheostomy and ventilator care
Chicago Home Care Services | Home Care Types
COMPANIONSHIP AND PERSONAL CARE
- Assist with daily activities such as bathing and clothing, meal preparation, and domestic responsibilities to promote independence and safety.
- Non-medical care is also known as home health aide services, senior care, homemaker care, assistive care, or companion care.
Services:
- Self-care assistance, such as grooming, bathing, clothing, and toileting
- Assisting with ambulation, transfer (e.g., from bed to wheelchair, wheelchair to the toilet), and fall prevention at home
- Meal planning and preparation assistance, light housekeeping, laundry, errands, medicine reminders, and appointment escorting
- Companionship as well as participation in hobbies and activities
- Care for someone suffering from dementia or Alzheimer’s illness
NURSING CARE DAILY
- Adults with a chronic illness, injury, or handicap who require long-term, hourly nursing care at home.
- Home-based skilled nursing, long-term nursing care, catastrophic care, tracheostomy care, ventilator care, nursing care, shift nursing, hourly nursing, or adult nursing are other terms for the same thing.
Services:
Treatment for diseases and ailments such as traumatic brain injury (TBI), spinal cord injury (SCI), ALS, and multiple sclerosis (MS).
Ventilator maintenance
Tracheostomy support
Vital signs monitoring
Medication administration
Ostomy/gastrostomy management
Feeding tube maintenance
Catheter maintenance
HOME HEALTH CARE
- Short-term, physician-directed care is intended to assist patients in preventing or recovering from disease, injury, or hospitalization.
- Medicare-certified home health care, intermittent skilled care, or visiting nurse services are other terms for the same thing.
Services:
Short-term nursing care
Physical rehabilitation
Occupational therapy (OT)
Speech and language pathology
Social work in medicine
Home health aide services
In-Home Care | Rehabilitation Therapy
Specialized therapy is provided as part of our rehabilitation services to help patients improve their mobility, functionality, and quality of life. Patients can get quality physical, occupational, and speech therapies in the comfort of their own homes with Essential Home Health Care.
Physical and occupational therapies, as well as speech and language pathology, are among our rehabilitation offerings. We assist patients with a wide range of needs, including those who have had a stroke or spinal damage, as well as those who have multiple sclerosis or neurological problems.
Physical therapy specialized to help patients improve their mobility and functionality, and hence their quality of life.
Patients who qualify for home health rehabilitation treatments include individuals who are unable to leave their homes or obtain therapy outside of the house.
According to the Medicare Rights Center, Medicare should cover these therapies whether your disease is acute or chronic. However, if you solely require occupational therapy, you will not be eligible for Medicare home health care.
Home Care Cost Info | Essential Home Care
Personal care and companionship
These services are typically paid for directly by the person receiving care (private pay), through long-term care insurance, or through Medicaid. Other possible financing sources include:
- Private payment
- Insurance for long-term care
- Health coverage
- Veterans’ advantages
- Compensation for workers
Private Duty Nursing Care
Private Duty Care can be paid for in a number of ways, including:
- Private payment
- Health coverage
- Veterans’ advantages
- Compensation for workers
- Medicaid (with requirements)
- Direct payment by the individual receiving care (private pay)
Home Health Services
These services are often reimbursed when particular qualifications are met (generally, when services are requested by a physician and a clinical examination considers them required).
- Medicare
- Personal Insurance
Our Mission
To assist our clients in maintaining a safe and healthy home environment conductive to achieving the highest level of functional independence in the comfort of their homes.