Amedisys Home Health Care

Amedisys Home Health Care provides skilled nursing, therapy, and related services to patients in Lee's Summit, Missouri who are recovering from illness, injury, or surgery, or managing chronic health conditions at home. The interdisciplinary team includes registered nurses, home health aides, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, and medical social workers, available on call 24/7 for urgent needs.

Nursing care encompasses pain management, monitoring, education, and wound care to promote healing and reduce complications. Physical therapy helps patients build strength, balance, and endurance to reduce fall risk, while occupational therapy teaches strategies for daily tasks and home modifications. Speech therapy addresses communication and swallowing difficulties, and medical social workers coordinate care and connect patients with community resources.

The organization offers specialized programs for patients with specific conditions, including heart failure management aimed at reducing symptoms and hospital visits, COPD education and support for home-based symptom management, diabetes programs combining nursing and therapy services, and fall prevention care addressing the risk factors that commonly lead to elderly falls at home.

Care plans are individualized and developed collaboratively with the patient's doctor, family, and caregivers. Initial assessments typically occur within 24 hours of discharge from a hospital or facility, and the frequency of visits is adjusted based on the patient's needs and physician recommendations. Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance plans typically cover eligible home health care services.