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Glossary & FAQs

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Glossary & FAQs

Your Guide to Care at Home

Navigating home-based healthcare options can feel overwhelming, but we’re here to make it easier.

Whether you’re looking for skilled nursing care, compassionate end-of-life support, or infusion therapy in the comfort of your home, our Glossary and FAQs provide clear, concise answers to your questions. Explore key terms, learn what to expect, and gain the confidence to make informed decisions about your care or the care of a loved one.

Glossary

Common Terms for Home Health, Hospice & Home Infusion Therapy

When you enter the world of home health and hospice care, you will be confronted by a new and confusing terminology. One of our goals at AAdi Home Health is to help ease your transition into our home care world. The more you know about home health, the better the outcomes for you and your loved ones.

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A-G Terms

Advance Directive

An Advance Directive is a written document stating how you want medical decisions to be made if you lose the ability to make them for yourself. It may include a living will and a durable power of attorney for health care.

Bereavement Services

Spiritual and emotional support after the passing of a loved one through visitation, conversation, grief counseling and support groups.

Caregiver

A caregiver is someone who gives care to another person. Caregivers can be your spouse, other family members, a friend or someone you hire to help you with your care.

Certified Nursing Assistants (CNA)

Certified Nursing Assistants (CNA) works closely with patients and are responsible for basic care services such as bathing, grooming, feeding, and assisting nurses with other duties such as checking vital signs.

Durable Medical Equipment

Durable medical equipment consists of certain medical equipment, like a walker, wheelchair, or hospital bed, that’s ordered by your doctor for use in the home.

Face to Face encounter

Face to Face encounter is performed by a patient’s physician, prior to or shortly after admission to Home Health Care. The FTF encounter documents the patient’s homebound status and the medical necessity for home health care.

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H-L Terms

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)

The “Standard for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information (also called the “Privacy Rule”)” of HIPPA assures your health information is properly protected while allowing the flow of health information needed to provide and promote high-quality health care and to protect the public’s health and well being. View more info about HIPPA

Homebound

Homebound means you have trouble leaving your home without help (like using a cane, wheelchair, walker, or crutches; special transportation; or help from another person) because of an illness or injury, or leaving your home isn’t recommended because of your condition, and you’re normally unable to leave your home because it’s a major taxing effort. You may leave home for medical treatment or short, infrequent absences for non-medical reasons, like attending religious services.

Home Health Aide

Home Health Aide is a trained professional (Certified nurse assistant) who’s primary tasks include personal care and assistance with activities of daily living in the patient’s home.

Home Health Care

Home health care is a wide range of health care services that can be provided in your home for an illness or injury. Your physician decides what services you may need in your home. Home health care helps you get better, regain your independence, and become as self-sufficient as possible.

Hospice

Hospice is a special way of caring for people who are terminally ill. Hospice care involves a team-oriented approach that addresses the medical, physical, social, emotional, and spiritual needs of the patient. Hospice also provides support to the patient’s family or caregiver.

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M-P Terms

Medicaid

Medicaid is a joint federal and state program that helps with medical costs for some people with limited income and resources. Medicaid programs vary from state to state, but most health care costs are covered if you qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid. View more information regarding MEDICAID.

Medically Necessary

Medically Necessary means health care services or supplies needed to diagnose or treat an illness, injury, condition, disease, or its symptoms and that meet accepted standards of medicine.

Medical Social Worker

Medical Social Worker provides case management, coordination of community resources, and assistance with the social/emotional effects of coping with acute and chronic illness in the home.

Medicare

Medicare is the federal health insurance program for people who are 65 or older, certain younger people with disabilities, and people with End-Stage Renal Disease (permanent kidney failure requiring dialysis or a transplant, sometimes called ESRD).

Occupational Therapy

Occupational therapy is a treatment that helps you return to your usual activities (like bathing, preparing meals, and housekeeping) after an illness or injury.

Physical Therapy

Physical therapy is a treatment of an injury or illness by mechanical means, like exercise, massage, heat, and light treatment.

Psychiatric Nursing

Psychiatric Nursing is provided, under the direction of a physician, by a Registered Nurse who has met certain experience and training requirements prior to providing skilled psychoactive treatments in the patient’s home.

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R-Z Terms

Referral

Referral is a written order from your primary care doctor for you to get certain medical services.

Rehabilitation Services

Rehabilitation services are health care services that help you keep, get back, or improve skills and functioning for daily living that you’ve lost or have been impaired because you were sick, hurt, or disabled. These services may include physical and occupational therapy, speech-language pathology, and psychiatric rehabilitation services.

Respite Care

Respite Care is temporary care provided in a nursing home, hospice inpatient facility, or hospital so that a family member or friend who is the patient’s caregiver can rest or take some time off.

Service Area

Service area is a geographic area where a Home Health Agency is licensed to provides services. You must reside within the Agency’s service area to receive services. View our Service Area.

Skilled Nursing Care

Skilled nursing care is medical care provided by a registered nurse or a licensed vocational nurse.

Speech-Language Therapy

Speech-language therapy is a treatment that helps you strengthen or regain speech, language, and swallowing skills.

The Joint Commission

The Joint Commission is an independent, not-for-profit organization. The Joint Commission accredits and certifies nearly 21,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States. Joint Commission accreditation and certification is recognized nationwide as a symbol of quality that reflects an organization’s commitment to meeting certain performance standards.

FAQs

Popular Home Health, Hospice & Home Infusion Therapy Answers

Want to learn more? Our goal at AAdi Home Health is to help ease your transition into home care. The more you know about home health and hospice, the better the outcomes will be for you and your loved ones.

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AAdi Home Health respects and supports family caregivers. Our patients who are fortunate enough to have this type of assistance often find that our services enrich the relationships they experience with their loved ones and ease some of the burden that family caregivers often face.

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AAdi Home Health will assist you in maintaining consistency of care whenever possible. Depending on your schedule, it may sometimes be necessary to assign another service provider (nurse, aide, therapist), but we will discuss this with you and ensure that you are familiar with and comfortable with all the professionals in your home.

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AAdi Home Health can assist you with medication management. We can provide medication reminders, medication boxes or teach your caregivers about your medications.

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AAdi Home Health encourages patients to remain independent when it is safe for them to do so. We develop personalized care plans that will assist you in safely performing many daily living activities. We want our patients to feel safe and comfortable while receiving the services they need in order to remain independent.

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AAdi Home Health does not charge for changes in services. You are able to discontinue your home health or hospice services at any time without being penalized.

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AAdi Home Health is one of a select few home health and hospice providers accredited by the Joint Commission, a respected home care accreditation agency. We require more from our employees in order to meet these standards and ensure a high-quality, safe, effective and empowering home care experience for our patients.

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AAdi Home Health wants you to feel comfortable with the professionals who are in your home. If for any reason you are not satisfied with the care you are receiving, you may contact our office. Our knowledgeable support staff can help you by addressing any concerns you have about the services you are receiving.

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AAdi Home Health has a simple process that allows you to call our office about home health or hospice services. We will contact your physician to obtain an order to evaluate you for the requested services. As soon as we receive the physician’s order we can schedule your assessment for services.

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AAdi Home Health can provide you with home health or hospice services as soon as we complete the assessment and receive your physician’s orders for care.

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AAdi Home Health is one of a select few home health and hospice providers accredited by the Joint Commission, a respected home care accreditation agency. We require more from our employees in order to meet these standards and ensure a high-quality, safe, effective and empowering home care experience for our patients.

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AAdi Home Health will assist you in maintaining consistency of care whenever possible. Depending on your schedule, it may sometimes be necessary to assign another service provider (nurse, aide, therapist), but we will discuss this with you and ensure that you are familiar with and comfortable with all the professionals in your home.

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AAdi Home Health wants you to feel comfortable with the professionals who are in your home. If for any reason you are not satisfied with the care you are receiving, you may contact our office. Our knowledgeable support staff can help you by addressing any concerns you have about the services you are receiving.

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AAdi Home Health has a simple process that allows you to call our office about home health or hospice services. We will contact your physician to obtain an order to evaluate you for the requested services. As soon as we receive the physician’s order we can schedule your assessment for services.

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AAdi Home Health can provide you with home health or hospice services as soon as we complete the assessment and receive your physician’s orders for care.

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AAdi Home Health is one of a select few home health and hospice providers accredited by the Joint Commission, a respected home care accreditation agency. We require more from our employees in order to meet these standards and ensure a high-quality, safe, effective and empowering home care experience for our patients.

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