Home Health

Counties Served

  • St. Bernards offers Home Health Rehabilitative Services for Craighead and many of the surrounding counties.

Services Provided for Home-Bound Patients

  • Physical and Occupational Therapy
  • Speech Pathology

Purpose and Availability

  • The purpose of this program is to prevent extended, chronic or unnecessary hospitalization to patients by providing medical support and rehabilitation in the home setting under the direction of the physician, when the environment is determined to be conducive to the patient's total rehabilitation.
  • Available to persons in Craighead, Greene, Lawrence, Poinsett, Randolph, Mississippi, Jackson and Cross Counties.

Services Available

  • Intermittent and hourly skilled nursing
  • Home health aide
  • Physical, occupational and speech therapies
  • Medical social services

Range of Services Offered

  • Assessment and evaluation
  • Wound care
  • Blood studies
  • Injections
  • Teaching
  • Case management
  • Pain management
  • Language disorders
  • Assessment of social and emotional factors affecting patient's medical condition
  • Provides training and supervision to caregivers
  • Coordinates patient care with physicians to keep them informed of the patient's condition and progress

Special Programs

  • St. Bernards Home Health constantly seeks to meet the special needs of a growing health care community through our special programs, which include:
  • Intravenous Therapy
  • Ventilator Dependency
  • Newborn/Obstetrics
  • PediatricsAIDS

Additional Information

  • These services are available to Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance and private pay patients.
  • For additional information, call Home Health at 972-8816 or 972-4100.