Explore Home Health and Hospice services available through Aquinas. Use the alphabetical directory below to learn more about the specialized care, therapy, support, and programs available to patients and families.
Skilled nursing support for patients receiving anticoagulant therapy, including assessment, medication education, monitoring, and coordination with the patient’s care team.
A complementary, comfort-focused option that may be incorporated into individualized hospice care to support relaxation and overall well-being.
Support for families during and after hospice care, including individualized grief support, counseling resources, educational materials, and connections to community services.
Specialized cardiac nursing supports patients with a history of heart conditions through symptom monitoring, medication and diet education, and communication with physicians and cardiologists.
Patient-centered spiritual and emotional support based on each individual’s personal beliefs, wishes, and needs. Hospice chaplains also provide support for caregivers and family members.
Short-term, intensive hospice care provided in the patient’s home during a period of crisis when additional nursing support is needed to manage symptoms and help the patient remain at home.
Skilled nursing education and support that helps patients and caregivers better understand a diagnosis, recognize changes in symptoms, and manage care safely at home.
Medical equipment needed to support daily activities and comfort at home may include items such as hospital beds, wheelchairs, walkers, and oxygen equipment.
Assessment, education, mobility support, and home-safety strategies designed to reduce fall risk and help patients remain safe and independent at home.
Short-term inpatient hospice care for pain or other symptoms that cannot be effectively managed in the patient’s current home setting.
Heart Failure Self-Management And Readmission Prevention Technique helps patients and caregivers recognize symptoms, better manage heart failure, improve health literacy, and reduce the risk of avoidable rehospitalization.
Specialized clinical support for patients with heart failure, including assessment, education, symptom monitoring, and guidance through Aquinas’ cardiac care program.
Hospice aides provide hands-on assistance with daily care and personal needs while also observing and communicating changes to the patient’s interdisciplinary hospice care team.
Skilled nursing support for intravenous medications and infusions at home, including site care, medication administration, monitoring, and related lab draws when ordered.
Licensed medical social workers help patients and families identify needed community resources and address practical, emotional, and care-planning needs.
For Home Health, this may include assistance with transportation, food resources, Medicaid applications, respite care, or alternative placement. In Hospice, social workers also advocate for patient wishes and provide support related to end-of-life needs.
Licensed medical social workers help patients and families identify needed community resources and address practical, emotional, and care-planning needs.
For Home Health, this may include assistance with transportation, food resources, Medicaid applications, respite care, or alternative placement. In Hospice, social workers also advocate for patient wishes and provide support related to end-of-life needs.
A multidisciplinary program that helps patients better understand and manage their medications through verification, medication reconciliation, education, communication with physicians and caregivers, and support for greater independence.
Individualized therapy and support focused on comfort and quality of life for patients with advanced progressive illness, addressing physical symptoms as well as psychological, social, and spiritual needs.
An individualized care plan developed around each patient’s medical needs, goals, physician orders, and the services required to support care safely at home.
Hospice physician support is available to help oversee the plan of care, address symptom-management needs, and provide medical guidance when the patient’s primary physician is unavailable.
Physical therapists help patients improve strength, mobility, balance, safety, and function at home following illness, injury, or surgery. Services may include gait training, pain-management techniques, exercise programs, and adaptive-equipment education.
The Pulmonary Rehabilitation Interventional Disease Education Program provides respiratory assessment, education, rehabilitation, equipment training, medication education, and ongoing support for patients with acute or chronic pulmonary conditions.
Nutrition professionals assess nutritional and hydration needs, provide nutrition counseling, and help create practical meal plans that consider each patient’s health needs, preferences, and budget.
Respiratory therapy provides evaluation, pulmonary rehabilitation, disease and medication education, respiratory-equipment training, breathing support, and clinical guidance for patients with pulmonary conditions.
Short-term inpatient hospice care that gives a patient’s family or other primary caregiver a temporary break from caregiving responsibilities.
The standard level of hospice care provided wherever the patient calls home when symptoms and care needs can be managed in that setting.
Licensed nurses provide skilled clinical care, assessment, education, symptom management, and coordination based on the patient’s individualized plan of care.
Home Health nursing includes services such as wound and ostomy care, medication administration, IV therapy, catheter care, disease management, and patient education. Hospice nurses specialize in end-of-life care, symptom support, medication education, and guidance for patients and caregivers.
Speech-language professionals assess and treat communication, cognitive, language, and swallowing difficulties and help patients improve skills following conditions such as stroke, brain injury, or dementia.
Support designed to help patients move safely from a hospital or post-acute setting back home through education, medication review, care coordination, follow-up appointments, and community resources.
Trained hospice volunteers provide companionship and practical support for patients and families, with opportunities ranging from patient visits to music, errands, pet therapy, and administrative assistance.
Advanced wound and ostomy care allows patients to receive specialized treatment at home in coordination with area wound-care centers. Current services include treatment of chronic and surgical wounds, complex ostomies, wound-vac therapy, compression, wound-care education, and caregiver training.
Specialized wound-care support for patients using wound VAC therapy as part of skilled nursing and Aquinas’ advanced wound and ostomy services.
