We provide high-quality home health care in Opelika. If you’re recovering from surgery or illness, or living with a chronic health condition, we can help you feel better in the comfort of home. Our home health care team is made up of trained professionals who are on-call 24/7 for urgent needs. Our nurses, home health aides, social workers, physical therapists, speech therapists and occupational therapists are passionate about helping you recover. We tailor treatment to your unique needs, drawing on the latest research. Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance plans usually cover the cost of home health care for eligible patients. Call us today to learn how Amedisys Home Health Care in Opelika can help you stay independent at home.
In hospice care, we believe that emotional and spiritual pain are just as real as physical pain. Hospice nurses and doctors use the most effective medications and devices to relieve pain and other symptoms. They are joined by specialists who are trained in physical therapy, music therapy, art therapy, massage therapy and nutritional counseling to help maintain patient comfort. Finally, various counselors, including clergy, help with emotional and spiritual support for patients and and bereavement support for family members and caregivers.
Primary Care
Our palliative care specialists come to your home – wherever you call home – to help manage symptoms, provide education, coordinate transitions of care in collaboration with your primary care provider, and establish your individualized goals of care. We’ll help you get the right care at the right time based on your treatment goals.
Emergency Care
Living with a serious or life-threatening illness can feel like a blur of hospitalizations and emergency room visits. Palliative care at home reduces this strain by bringing many treatments to you.
Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, genetic information (including familial genetic information).
I have multiple sclerosis, which was diagnosed in 1997. I have consistently been in physical therapy since 2003, when I first began to lose my ability to walk. One therapist told me, “You know you will never walk again.” This was not the attitude exhibited by Eric Estes of Amedisys Home Health Care of Tuscaloosa. After his first visit he said to me, “I don’t know how much I can help you, but I will do my best to get you where you can go.” Eric has been true to that promise.
Mental health care – Support from a home care professional who is specially trained in helping people with depression, anxiety and other mental health disorders
Insomnia
Behavioral Health
Some Amedisys home health agencies also have behavioral health nurses on staff. These specialized nurses provide monitoring and support for behavioral health disorders like depression and anxiety.
Dave Methlie, Physical Therapy Asst., got me back on my feet, climbing steps again and helped my tortured leg muscles heal.
Occupational Therapy
By contrast, a doctor’s order is required for home health care, a type of in-home care that can include skilled nursing care, physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy.