Home Health Services

Dignity Health’s home health services provide comprehensive and compassionate care for patients who have recently been discharged from the hospital, who need short-term skilled nursing, physical therapy, or speech therapy.

Home Health Care for All Greater Sacramento Area Residents

Dignity Health's home health services are available for people with a wide array of special medical needs in our community. Our home health services are available for:

• Ill, frail and elderly patients
• Mothers and babies
• Specials needs children

Individualized Home Health Care Plans from Dignity Health

Working closely with your physician and caregivers, our home health care team develops a personalized treatment plan, clearly stating goals and desired outcomes.

Compassionate Home Health Care Teams for the Sacramento Area

Our experienced team of home health care nurses, therapists, aides and medical social workers understand the importance of home health care for patients in need of extra support outside the hospital setting.

Dignity Health's home health services professionals are all state-licensed, Medicare-certified and Joint Commission accredited. Throughout the home health care process, your specialized team closely monitors your progress, ensuring you meet your health objectives as quickly as possible.

Comprehensive Home Health Care Programs from Dignity Health

Every patient is unique—so our home health services offer a range of care options tailored to each patient's needs. Available programs include:

Skilled Nursing

• Bowel management
• Catheter care
• Disease state management
• Enteral therapy
• Health education
• Infusion therapy
• Medication instruction and monitoring
• Ostomy care
• Pain and symptom management
• Physical assessments
• Skin integrity monitoring
• Wound care

Physical Therapy

• Mobility and safety assessment and instruction
• Home exercise education and training
• Transfer training
• Equipment management
• Therapeutic treatment

Speech/Language Therapy

• Cognitive evaluation and training
• Assessment of communication and comprehension abilities
• Instruction in speech and language skills
• Communication devices
• Diagnostic swallowing tests
• Eating and swallowing training

Occupational Therapy

• Daily living activities assessment and instruction
• Independent living skills education
• Adaptive equipment
• Energy conservation skills

Medical Social Work

• Psychosocial assessment
• Social and emotional counseling
• Community resource referrals

Home Health Care

• Personal care
• Bathing

Learn More about Home Health

Mercy Home Health
9912 Business Park Drive, Suite #100
Sacramento, CA 95827
(916) 281-2300

Sierra Nevada Home Healthcare
(530) 274-6350

Woodland Healthcare Home Health Services
1207 Fairchild Court
Woodland, CA 95695
(530) 406-2900