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Home Health Services

For more information about Baxter Regional Home Health,
call (870) 435-7500.

Home Healthcare Includes the Following Services:

  • Catheter care
  • Wound care and dressings
  • Diabetes education
  • Colostomy care and education
  • Monitoring vital signs for patients with life-threatening cases of hypertension, congestive heart failure, heart attacks and strokes
  • Pregnant mothers
  • Education and instruction for therapeutic diets, medications, home care or post-surgical concerns
  • Feeding tube insertion and care
  • IV therapy services, including chemotherapy

Skilled Nursing / Home Health Aide Services

The home health aide may assist periodically with bathing, hair and nail care, and other personal care. An aide is assigned at the discretion of the visiting nurse, but only if the patient is already receiving skilled nursing, physical therapy or speech therapy.

  • Wound Care & Dressing
  • Chronic Disease Management
  • Colostomy Care & Education
  • Catheter Care
  • Medication Management
  • Feeding Tube Insertion & Care
  • IV Therapy

Therapy Services

Our physical, Speech and Occupational therapists provide high-quality rehabilitation services in your home. These services include therapeutic exercise, functional activities, patient education and screening, evaluating and interpreting results. We also instruct your family in functional transfers, balance activities and stroke rehabilitation. Specific services include:

  • Fall Prevention
  • Pain Management
  • Low-Vision Care

Resources

Resources provided by Baxter Regional Home Health include:

  • On-Staff Social Workers
  • Patient / Caregiver Education
  • Telemonitoring

A social worker is available to assist patients with social or financial problems that may impact the patient’s care or recovery.

Baxter Health’s home health telemonitoring remotely monitors patients’ vital signs data and sends short surveys about current health statuses to the patients and caregivers. Clinicians can track patients’ conditions daily, which promotes fast follow-up and intervention.

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