Do I Need Help?

Is your patient a candidate for Home Health Care and may need some kind of help at home?

Use the Lifeline Healthcare assessment checklist to help determine if he/she is a candidate

If you answer yes to any of the following questions, you will need some kind of Home Healthcare Services.

Lifeline Healthcare can help with a wide range of home healthcare services. We can be there anytime, to make sure your patient follows your plan of care.

Does your patient require one or more of the following help?

		• Clinical evaluation of patient’s condition for treatment planning.
		• Pain Management.
		• Monitoring of Vital signs like blood pressure, pulse, blood sugar level, general condition etc.
		• Ensuring timely administration of medications, evaluating response to new treatments/medicines.
		• Follow-up assessments

Does your patient require pathological support?

		• Collection of samples (Blood, Urine, Stool, Sputum, etc.) at home for pathological examination and reporting.
		• Doing portable X-Ray, EKG, attaching Holter monitoring device for 24 hour cardiac monitoring, etc.

Does your patient require one or more of the following treatments?

		• Wound Care including bed sore dressing, fistula care etc.
		• Catheter/tube care (insertion, removal or maintenance)
		• Drainage tubes
		• Tracheostomy tube care (suctioning, oxygen)
		• Suture/staple removal
		• Infusion (I.V. antibiotics, pain management & I.V.nutrition)
		• Blood transfusion
		• Nebulization, oxygen therapy to patients with respiratory distress
		• Chemotherapy administration
		• Tube feeding of patient (through N-G tube or PEG tube)
		• Colostomy management
		• Care of C-V lines

Does your patient require any equipment support for delivering doctor’s order?

• Suction machine, Oxygen cylinders with flow-meter, Nebulizer, Pulse
oxymeter, CPAP/Bi-PAP machine etc.

Does your patient require one or more of the following education?

		• Medication administration
		• Disease management
		• Self-care protocol
		• Special diets
		• Operation of assistive devices, like use of glucometer, BP machine, nebulizer etc.

Does your patient require one or more of the following rehabilitation therapies:

		• Physical Therapy (PT),
		• Occupational Therapy (OT),
		• Speech Therapy (ST)?

Does your patient require assisstance in one or more of the following conditions?

		• Difficulty w/ ambulation (e.g. gait abnormality, turning, sitting up, new assistive device)
		• Fall risk or history of falls
		• Patient lives alone – safety concerns
		• Patient needs help at home for self-care
		• Difficulty dressing/grooming, Difficulty bathing,Difficulty w/ feeding,
		• Difficulty w/ transfers (e.g. toilet, tub, sit to stand)
		• Confusion at any level, including memory problems
		• Difficulty speaking clearly