Important home health, hospice and home medical equipment information and resources for patients and caregivers.
Physician resources, including information on all of our home health, hospice & home medical equipment services.
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Why Choose Great Lakes Senior Care?
- Registered Nurse is on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
- In-home pre-admission screening to determine individual needs
- Individuals receive an in-depth assessment completed by our case manager
- Home safety evaluation completed at pre-admission screening.
- Comprehensive, individualized plan of care written to ensure quality, followed daily by home maker or home health aide
- Field Site Supervisor will monitor the individual through monthly on-site visits to the home
- Provide 2-hour up to 24-hour care per day
- Team of caring healthcare professionals are available to assist you
- Satisfaction surveys performed multiple times throughout course of care
- Personalized modifications in the daily plan of care are initiated, as requested by the individual or their family, to improve ongoing quality of service
- Exceeds voluntary industry quality standards
- All staff required to complete on-going educational training on a regular basis
- Competency evaluations completed on all care providers at predetermined intervals
- Home Health Aides meet national training standards
- Each employee must pass rigorous criminal history background checks
- Prospective employees must pass multi-level background checks on their prior employment
- Professional coordination of healthcare benefits
- Should an individual’s requirements for care change, Great Lakes Senior Care professional staff will coordinate Medicare, Medicaid and Medicaid Waiver or private insurance benefits when appropriate
- Transfer to certified home health care or hospice, coordinated in conjunction with individual, their family and primary care physician
- Preferred provider for Medicaid Waiver, Regions II & VI.
Types of Private Duty Care
- Home Health Aides and Homemakers
- House keeping
- Meal planning and preparation
- Grooming and personal hygiene
- Transportation to doctor’s appointments, church and social events
- Assistance with errands
- Grocery shopping
- Laundry and light housekeeping
- Medication reminders provided to individual
- Assistance with accurate record keeping
- Reading and conversation
- Companionship
- Pet care
- Nursing care
- Physical, occupational and speech therapy
- Medical social work
- Dietician counseling
- And 1,000 other services to assist your patients