We Take Care of Everything

When you are managing recovery, illness, or injury at home, there's a lot to consider.

• How do I get the special equipment or supplies I need?
• How do I make sure all my doctors are on the same page with my medications and my therapies?
• How do I take care of my house while I am ill, recovering, or injured?
• How do I make sure my recovery goes according to plan while I am at home?

SunCare Home Health staff will manage every aspect of your skilled home care program. We are the specialists at giving you the comprehensiveness of rehab facility care in the more comfortable, less costly environment of your own home. When you’re ready, one phone call to the SunCare Home Health office is all it takes to have all of your home care needs addressed.

SunCare Home Health sends skilled health care professionals such as nurses and therapists to your home. Under orders from your own doctor, we can provide a number of different services designed to improve your health, prevent future problems, and/or shorten your stay at a hospital or nursing home.

Popular services include:

• Orthopedic rehabilitation
• Wound care
• Strategic optimization of activities of daily living
• Fall injury prevention programs
• Gait training / rehabilitation
• Home care during chemotherapy induced debility
• Cardiopulmonary rehabilitation (for situations such as)
  • Congestive heart failure
  • COPD / CAO
  • Post heart attack / myocardial infarction
• Stroke rehabilitation (especially after discharge from the rehab facility)
• Chronic disease management (training for patients and their family on issues of managing chronic diseases such as)
  • Diabetes
  • Multiple Sclerosis
  • Parkinson's
  • Congestive heart failure
  • COPD / CAO
  • Hypertension
  • Arthritis
• Pain management
• Urinary incontinence rehabilitation
• Observation & Assessment during periods when your condition has a likelihood of exacerbation of worsening

Who Qualifies for Home Health

Medicare requires that patients meet the definition of homebound. This simply means that, in your current condition, leaving home requires a considerable and taxing effort and that you therefore leave the home infrequently. It can also mean that your doctor has ordered you to not leave the home for a while due to your current medical condition. Homebound is not the same as bedbound. Most homebound patients can still move about their homes, and some homebound patients can even go for walks.

Home health services also require that a patient have a "skilled need." This means a patient must need more than our aide services that assist patients with activities of daily living such as cleaning, bathing, grooming, and light meal preparation. Skilled need means you need the services provided by nurses and therapists such as diet teaching, exercise design and supervision, medication teaching, collecting lab specimen, or skilled observation.

Finally, home health services require the authorization of a physician. SunCare Home Health does not require patients to see a new physician. Instead, we believe it is better for us to work with your physician whom you already know and trust. When patients are Medicare beneficiaries, physicians can and should bill for the work of coordinating care with SunCare Home Health.

How to Get Started

• Anyone can make a referral for home health. Help is just a phone call away!
• Referrals are also made by discharge planners and social workers.
• A doctor’s order is required in order to provide home care that is covered by insurance.
• For your convenience, we will coordinate all care directly with your doctor. Simply provide us with the name of your physician when telling us about your health care situation.

For qualified patients, Medicare pays 100% of allowable charges from SunCare Home Health. Most insurances cover home health services. Please contact us to find out if we currently participate in your insurance plan.

Assisted Living Facilities

SunCare Home Health is well versed with all clinical and management issues, as well as Medicare and Michigan guidelines, when it comes to providing services to assisted living facility (ALF) clients. When SunCare Home Health teams up with an assisted living facility, we help that ALF stand above other facilities in the area. SunCare Home Health helps select Michigan assisted living facilities:

• Fall prevention programs
• Transfer training and safety
• Programs specific to dementia care
• Programs to help with loss of range of motion
• Programs to help with gait impairment
• Programs to help with age related loss of function
• Pain management programs

Advantages of ALFs working with SunCare Home Health:
Medicare allows SunCare Home Health to provide nursing and physical rehabilitation services at assisted living facilities. For ALFs, the benefits of teaming up with SunCare Home Health are:

• Nursing services included
• Payment for services are not capped
• More communication with physicians and family
• Better reimbursement for care allowing for better care
• Medicare pays 100% of patients' nursing and rehabilitation bills from SunCare Home Health
• SunCare Home Health's more comprehensive team can provide more services that Medicare allows rehab only providers to supply in ALFs.