Medicare will fully fund home care services if a patient meets four criteria: 1) their doctor decides they need medical care at home, 2) they need skilled nursing care or physical/speech therapy, 3) they are homebound, and 4) the home care agency is Medicare-approved. St. Francis Home Care is Medicare-approved. The document then provides details on the types of services St. Francis Home Care provides, including skilled nursing care, occupational and physical therapy, and social work services to help patients recover from illnesses or injuries at home.

1. Home Care
Paying for Home Care
Private insurance carriers fund home care
services differently. Please refer to your
insurance policy for more information.
Medicare fully funds home care services if
you meet all of the following criteria:
• Your doctor decides you need medical
care in your home, and
• You need at least one of the
following services: intermittent (and not
full-time) skilled nursing care or physical
or speech therapy or a continued need
for occupational therapy, and
• You are homebound (see inside for
further explanation), and
• The home care agency providing services
is a Medicare-approved program.
St. Francis Home Care fulfills this
requirement.
Providing skilled nursing care,
occupational and physical
therapy and social work services
in the comfort of your home.
HomeCare

2. Occupational Therapy
• Working on ways to complete tasks
efficiently
• Adapting to dressing, cooking, cleaning
and laundry
• Exercising and strengthening upper
extremities
Physical Therapy
• Evaluating home and bathroom safety
• Providing home exercise programs
• Assessing mobility with stairs, doorways
and bathrooms
• Evaluating transfers
• Evaluating caregiver safety
For more information call 785-295-8240.
Services ProvidedSt. Francis Home Care
St. Francis Home Care provides skilled
nursing care and other health care services
at home when you are recovering from
an illness, injury, surgery, stroke or other
disabling event. Nurses and therapists
evaluate your ability to perform daily
activities and they provide information
and instruction to adapt to your current
condition with the goal of you becoming
as independent and high-functioning as
possible.
Services are provided on a short-term
basis and patients must show progress to
continue receiving services.
Home Care requires a referral and order
from a primary doctor or a referring
doctor. Patients receiving home care
services must be homebound.
Skilled Nursing
• Assessing cardio-pulimonary and GI/GU
status
• Administering IVs and injections
• Maintaining and caring for central lines
• Changing and caring for urinary catheters
• Managing pain
• Instruction on PEG/Enteral feeding
• Teaching about medications, the disease
process, wound care, catheter care, IV care,
pain management
Social Work
• Providing information about community
resources and services
• Accessing financial resources
• Assessing depression
• Providing short-term (four to six) therapy
sessions
Homebound means that it takes a
considerable and taxing effort to
leave home, your trips away from
home are infrequent and of a short
duration, and you need help to do
so. Patients who are homebound
are still allowed to attend all
medical appointments, church
services, some family gatherings
and haircut appointments.
Homebound