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Best Home Health and National HomeCare Services

Bringing Excellent Healthcare to Your Home

National Homecare Services will be doing a HealthLine 3 Web Cast on the following dates:

2009
March 24, April 21, May 19, June 16, July 21, August 18, September 15, October 20, November 17, December 15

2010
January 19, February 16

Contact Information:

Website: www.nationalbesthomehealth.com

National HomeCare Services

Shreveport Office:
Southpoint Center
3007 Knight Street, Suite 200
Shreveport, La 71105
1-800-770-7781
fax: 869-2652

Natchitoches Office:
113 #5 Bienville Square
Natchitoches, LA 71457
1-866-715-8685
fax: 357-1270

Winnfield Office:
100 W Boundary, Ste 107
Winnfield, LA 71483
1-800-628-3025
fax: 628-2978

Sibley Office:
364 North Main Street
Sibley, LA 71073
1-866-707-7698
fax: 382-1527

Springhill Office:
402 North Arkansas Street
Springhill, LA 71075
1-888-804-7902
fax: 539-4306

Best Home Health

Bastrop Office:
344 Holt Street
Bastrop, LA 71220
1-877-283-0166
fax: 283-8141

Columbia Office:
102 Sydney Lane
Columbia, LA 71418
1-800-509-6044
fax: 649-3918

Farmerville Office:
209 North Main Street
Farmerville, LA 71241
1-866-531-2424
fax: 368-2420

Jonesboro Office:
120 Jimmie Davis Blvd
Jonesboro, La 71251
1-866-746-8858
fax: 259-2135

Ruston Office:
607 Willow Glen
Ruston, LA 71270
1-800-467-6588
fax: 254-1480

Monroe Office:
802 N. 31st Street
Monroe, LA 71201
1-800-640-0854
fax: 323-1250

About National Homecare Services

National Homecare Services and Best Home Health, established in 1971 and 1983, are well known for compassion and quality of care. Our mission statement "We Believe that God is the Ultimate Source of all Healing, and that we are Partners with God, Gifted and Called to be Stewards of these Healing Gifts" echos the quality and integrity of care that we believe in and provide. Located in Northeast and Northwest Louisiana, we service our clients from 11 locations (Shreveport, Springhill, Sibley, Natchitoches, Winnfield, Jonesboro, Ruston, Farmerville, Bastrop, Monroe and Columbia). Providing home care services 24/7, our experienced team of highly trained nurses, home health aides and therapist want only to provide the best care in your home and work with you and your physician at keeping you home and home safe. With National and Best Home Health, we specialize in programs like VitalStim with Speech Therapy, Low Vision and Alpha Stim with Occupational Therapy, Fall Prevention and Anodyne therapy with Physical Therapy, Diabetes Self-Management with Diabetic Nurses, Dietitians and Certified Diabetic Educators and Cardio-Pulmonary and Psychiatric Nursing Programs. Our home care services are dedicated to you and your physician. We accept Medicare, Medicaid, Medicare HMO's, most private insurance providers and private pay. For more information, please refer to our web site http://www.nationalbesthomehealth. 

Home Health 101

To qualify for Home Health, one must be home bound (normal inability to leave the home, taxing effort to leave the home, psychiatric condition which hinders the patient from leaving home). A physician must order the services (medical doctor, osteopath, podiatrist, and psychiatrist). They need intermittent care (meaning they don't require nursing 24/7) and they must have a skilled service need. This includes medically necessary services that are considered reasonable for the treatment of a patient's illness or injury. The services must be such that they can only be provided by a RN, LPN (under direct supervision of an RN), PT, ST, or OT. To the patient with Medicare, it costs zero to have home health. This means no out of pocket fees or co-payments. A patient has the right to choose their home health. Home Health agencies must by certified by Medicare. The patient's choice should be honored by the doctor, hospital discharge planner, or other referring agency. Although the patient has a say in which agency to use, the choice may be limited by agency availability, or by insurance coverage. A patient has the right to know if a home health agency is recommended by their hospital discharge planner, doctor, or social worker. For more research: www.medicare.gov.

Marketing Programs for National HomeCare Services and Best Home Health

• A.C.T. ORTHOPEDIC PROGRAM: a short-term 2-3 week rehab program offered as an alternative to skilled nursing facility (SNF) or traditional rehab hospital for post-orthopedic surgical patients.

• AUGMENTATIVE COMMUNICATION PROGRAM: a program designed to instruct patients who have severe communication deficits on the use of an Aug Com device.

•  AURAL REHAB PROGRAM: a program designed for patients who are hard of hearing (HOH) and have difficulty with safety and communication in their home due to their hearing loss

• CARDIAC SELF-MANAGEMENT PROGRAM: a program designed to teach the signs, symptoms, and disease process of Congestive Heart Failure to enhance the patient's quality of life in the comfort of their own home.

• CHRONIC PULMONARY PROGRAM: This program offers a unique and comprehensive approach to pulmonary diseases and addresses the challenges facing these patients including: shortness of breath, decreased strength and endurance, reduced energy levels, reduced self-esteem, decreased ability to care for themselves, fear, anxiety, depression, and the isolation that often results. "When every breath is an effort, nothing is easy."

• CONTINENCE CARE PROGRAM: a program designed to enhance continence in the elderly population.

• DEMENTIA PROGRAM: a program designed to provide intensive education to the patient and/or caregiver with emphasis on communication challenges, ADL performance abilities, functional safety, orientation, and disease management.

• DIABETES THERAPY SELF-MANAGEMENT PROGRAM: a program designed to empower the diabetic patient to have ownership of their disease and to prevent or delay the complications associated with diabetes.

•  FALL PREVENTION PROGRAM: a program designed to enhance balance, strength, and safety for the prevention of falls.

• GERD PROGRAM: a program designed for patients with a diagnosis of Gastro Esophageal Reflux Disease or GERD with an emphasis on decreasing the signs and symptoms of GERD exacerbation and the incidence of esophageal cancer.

• LIFE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM: a program designed to address a patient's psychosocial issues that have negatively impacted a patient's safe functioning in their environment.

• LOW VISION PROGRAM: a program designed for patients with low vision to teach the use of compensatory strategies and adaptive equipment in order to enhance safety and function in their environment.

• ORAL HYGIENE PROGRAM: a program designed for patients with poor mouth hygiene with efforts to enhance oral care and reduce risk of development of aspiration pneumonia.

• ORTHOPEDIC PROGRAM: a program designed to increase strength, range of motion and function in the home after orthopedic surgical intervention.

• PSYCH PROGRAM: a program designed to decrease inpatient hospitalizations and assist individuals with a psychiatric diagnosis to function at their optimal potential.

• VITALSTIM PROGRAM: a program designed to treat the management of oropharyngeal dysphagia using electrical currents to stimulate and "re-educate" the swallowing muscles.

• WOUND CARE PROGRAM: a program designed to provide complete head to toe assessments, treatment and education on wounds to enhance and promote healing.