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Kaiser Home Health Services

Kaiser Home Health Services provides Medicare-certified care for patients in their own homes, promoting safety, health and independence. We serve home-bound patients in Karnes and surrounding counties. Otto Kaiser Memorial is staffed by experienced, licensed clinicians trained to provide the following in-home services

Home Health is more than nursing care. We ensure safe and appropriate treatment at home; to provide the necessary medical supplies as ordered that best meet your needs; to monitor your condition during your convalescence or rehabilitation and alert your MD to early signs or symptoms of complications; to teach you, a member of your family, or a friend how to care for your medical needs and treatments; to share with you important information about your medications, diet, and your disease process.

Skilled Nursing

• Assessment of condition
• Vital signs
• Catheter changes and care
• Dressing changes to wounds/incisions
• Diabetic instruction
• Ostomy care
• Blood draws for labs
• Injections
• Home IV infusion
• Instruct on use of equipment such as oxygen or glucometer
• Instruct on your disease processes and make referrals to other agencies such as provider services

Speech Therapy

Cognitive and memory rehabilitation

Treat speech, eating and swallowing difficulties

Physical & Occupational Therapy

• Gait training
• Strengthening training
• Home exercise program
• Massage and ultrasound
• Instruction on becoming independent in home

Home Health Aide

• Assist with bathing
• Personal care
• Ambulation
• Skin care
• Exercises
• Assess vital signs
• Light housekeeping

Who qualifies for these services?

Anyone who can use home health assistance during an acute illness; anyone who has been discharged from a hospital, nursing home or rehab hospital; post-surgical care; anyone with a new diagnosis or new medications.

Who pays for these services?

Medicare will pay for home health services 100% as long as the patient remains homebound. The patient must be homebound which means they are not driving. They leave their homes only for medical care; dental appts; church; beauty shop and in frequent absences from the home.

Medicaid and other major private insurances also pay home health benefits.

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How do I find out more about our home health service?

Ask your doctor or feel free to call Otto Kaiser Memorial Home Health any of the following ways:

Stacey Schultz, RN
Administrator, Director of Nursing
Phone: 830-583-4558
Fax: 830-583-3727
Email: stacey.schultz@okmh.org