Home Health Care

By: Altamash Mir

Objectives

Define Home Health

What Percent of PTAs work in Home
Health
Salary Range
Diagnosis
Treatments
Equipment
Advanced Skill, Training, or Recognition
needed to work in Home Health

What is Home
Health

Home health is care/services provided to

a patient in the convenience of their
home by a professional caregiver

What % of PTAs work in Home

Health
Regionally

6.6%

Table 8. Facility/Setting

Acute care hospital 8.6 %

Sub-acute rehab hospital (in-patient) 4.8 %
Health system or hospital based outpatient
facility or clinic 17.3 %
Private out-patient office or group practice 33.1
%
SNF/ECF/ICF 17.9 %
Patients home/Home care 6.6 %

School System (preschool/primary/secondary)

1.4 %
Academic Institution (post-secondary) 5.0%
Health and Wellness Facility .4 %

Industry .2 %
Other 4.8 %

Types of Patients
(Diagnosis)

Total Joint Replacements

Fractures
CVA/Stroke
Progressive Neurological
Conditions
Fall Risk
Dementia
Chronic Pain
Incontinence
Wounds
COPD
Heart Failure

Treatments

Gait Training
Transfer Training
Home Exercise Program Development
Home Exit Management
Fall Prevention
Neuropathy Treatment
Wound Care
Incontinence Treatment
Pain Management
Progressive Resistive Exercise

Equipment

Factors
What the patient is being treated for
Depends on the environment

Space/Size

Equipment

Bandages

Platforms

Therapy Balls

Equipment

Massage Cream/Gel

Vital Sign Tools

Portable Electrotherapy Machine

Advanced
Skill,
Training,
&
A PTA should have learned all requirements
Recognition
to treat patients in their
education
A PTA can always expand their knowledge by
going to State meetings or Classes/Seminars
The mind can never stop learning

Thanks For Read