S I V N A
Southwestern Illinois Visiting Nurse Association
1-800-HOMECARE
Home Health Care
We Make House Calls!
Southwestern Illinois Visiting Nurse Association has been providing cost-effective, high quality individual Home Health Care and supportive services in our community since 1918! Home Health Care offers individuals access to health care while maintaining their independence and dignity within the confines of the patient's own home or the home of a loved one. SIVNA maintains an exceptionally experienced and professional staff to provide personalized care and attention to the patient while educating and supporting the patient's family members.
AVAILABLE SERVICES:
All patients are provided with an equal opportunity to receive the benefits and programs offered by Southwestern Illinois Visiting Nurse Association. No one will be refused service because of age, sex, race, color, creed, national origin, or handicap.
Skilled Nursing Care:
Registered nurses perform the treatment procedures prescribed and ordered by your personal physician. Examples include, but are not limited to, insulin injections, catheter care, ostomy care, wound care, as well as providing on-going patient education, both to the patient and the patient's family members, for the purpose of continued well-being.
Physical Therapy:
Physical Therapy in the home environment is designed to restore movement, strengthen muscles, improve body coordination and return the patient to their optimal range of motion.
Occupational Therapy:
Occupational therapy uses rehabilitative, vocational, and educational tasks to restore and/or enhance physical abilities while developing a program for self care to promote independent living.
Speech Therapy:
Speech therapy evaluates the patient's ability to communicate. This evaluation allows the speech therapist to assist the patient in improving or relearning speaking and listening skills while also teaching the patient, and their family, new methods of communication.
Medical Social Worker:
Medical social workers counsel patients on the social and emotional aspects of their medical condition, and act as a referral source to community agencies that may be available to assist in counseling, transportation, child care, nursing home placement, financial aid, and other needs as they apply to the patient and/or their family members.
Home Health Aides:
Home Health Aides assist patients with prescribed exercises, walking and transferring to and from their wheelchair or walker. Home Health Aides work under the direct supervision of a Registered Nurse and will also assist the patient with personal care, bathing, changing linens, preparations of light meals, and light housekeeping, as outlined in the patient's plan of care.
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
Before Home Health Care can begin, your physician must determine the Home Health Care services are necessary because: you are essential homebound; your physician has established a treatment plan for Home Health Care services; and you are in need of the services outlined in the treatment plan or plan of care developed by your physician.