Home Health Care

Eligibility

Conditions to Qualify for Home Care

• Your doctor must decide that you need medical care at home and make a plan for your care at home.

• You must need intermittent skilled nursing care, physical therapy, speech-language therapy, or to continue occupational therapy.

• The home care agency caring for you must be approved by the Medicare program (Medicare-certified). Holy Family Home Health Care is Medicare certified.

• You must be home bound, or normally unable to leave home without help. To be home bound means that leaving home takes considerable and taxing effort. You can be home bound and still leave home for medical treatment or short, infrequent absences for non-medical reasons, such as trips to a barber or church.