Skilled Home Health

Call Us First

Call Us First is vital to eliminating emergency room visits and rehospitalizations. Elara Caring reviews Call Us First with every visit and phone call with patients and caregivers to ensure they know how and when to reach us to support care.

Benefits include:

• 24/7/365 availability
• Reduces emergency room visits and hospitalizations
• Increases patient comfort by managing symptoms in the home
• Relieves anxiety because someone is always available to help
• Provides intervention before a health decline becomes a crisis

COPD

Our COPD program is designed to equip patients to successfully manage unique pulmonary diagnosis needs to ease symptoms, lower the risk of complications and improve quality of life.

Benefits include:

• Same day start of care
• 24/7/365 availability
• Reduces hospitalizations
• Superior patient and caregiver experience
• Custom care plan based on individual needs
• High flow nasal cannula if prescribed
• CPAP/BiPAP if prescribed
• Pleural drains management
• Tracheostomy care
• Patient-specific durable medical equipment

Diabetes

BLOOM is a diagnosis-centric care plan that addresses the specific needs of each diabetes patient. Treatment and lifestyle changes can ease symptoms, lower the risk of complications and improve quality of life. BLOOM is focused on personal goal setting, physical movement, nutrition, educational activities and diabetes disease management and wellness with a plan that addresses:

Better blood sugar control
Lifestyle adjustments
Ownership to take control over diabetes
Opportunity to embrace and support wellness
Movement toward better health

ElaraConnect

Our ElaraConnect platform proactively identifies patient needs and connects them with the appropriate level of care. We utilize state-of-the-art telehealth equipment that supplements direct patient care and promotes conversation, interaction and learning opportunities between patient and clinician. The platform includes the following programs:

• Engage—virtual engagement
• Monitor—remote patient monitoring
• Check In—ongoing connection as needs change
• Transition—intervention when a higher level of care is needed

Fall Prevention

Our Better Balance fall prevention program is designed to assess and address the core problems of adults who fall and/or lose their balance. The first step in applying successful treatment is to determine the root cause. Developed by medical clinicians, Better Balance utilizes evidence-based standardized testing to identify specific patient dysfunctions that may be contributing to balance issues, then formulates an individualized and targeted care plan.

Better Balance addresses:

• Strengthening
• Muscle imbalance
• Fear of falling
• Adaptive equipment needs
• Postural training
• Home/environmental hazards
• Functional deficits
• Physician communication
• Personalized coordination of care

Heart Failure

This diagnosis-centric care program focuses on self-assessment, heart failure disease management and wellness. We provide an added layer of support with our telehealth program that provides equipment to supplement direct patient care and promote conversation, interaction and learning opportunities between patient and clinician.

Benefits include:

• 24/7/365 availability
• Reduces hospitalizations
• Direct line to the Elara Clinical Team to help manage concerns and symptoms
• Plan of care and integrated care pathways
• Multidisciplinary care team including nurses, physical and occupational therapists, social workers and home health aides
• Heart failure patient guide

Hip and Knee Replacement Recovery

This diagnosis-centric care program designed for patients preparing or recovering from hip or knee joint replacement surgery is focused on recovery after surgery, rehabilitation and wellness. We provide an added layer of support with our telehealth program that provides equipment to supplement direct patient care and promote conversation, interaction and learning opportunities between patient and clinician.

Benefits include:

• 24/7/365 availability
• Reduces hospitalizations
• Direct line to the Elara Clinical Team to help manage concerns and symptoms
• Plan of care and integrated care pathways
• Multidisciplinary care team including nurses, physical and occupational therapists, social workers and home health aides
• Orthopedic patient guide

Incontinence

This physical therapy program not only improves patient continence but also improves quality of life by strengthening the pelvic floor muscles that influence bladder and bowel function. Incontinence is not a normal part of aging, and 80% of urinary incontinence sufferers can be cured or improved.

Our clinician assessments address self-awareness/management, mobility, dietary factors, social activities, safety, medication factors, strength/flexibility, environmental clues and voiding patterns. Then our physical therapists implement a four-step approach utilizing:

• Physiological quieting
• Core strengthening
• Pelvic floor strengthening
• Dietary recommendations

Low Vision

Our low vision rehabilitation program is designed to improve function and quality of life focusing on preventing accident and injury. Our occupational therapists teach patients how to use their remaining vision more effectively by incorporating techniques and adaptive equipment to maintain independence and safety at home.

Benefits include:

• 24/7/365 availability
• Customized Assessment
• Low vision patient guide

Mental Health

Our Mindful CARE program recognizes that the emotional and physical demands of providing care can strain even the most capable caregiver. This program provides support with:

Compassion
Acceptance to
Recognize and
Embrace

The program promotes awareness of mental wellness among patients and caregivers, improves early detection of new or exacerbating symptoms of anxiety and/or depression and facilitates effective follow-up interventions for caregivers who show significant signs and symptoms.

Older Adult Mindfulness

EMBRACE is a mindfulness program for older adults that guides them through the emotional journey of aging that focuses on the awareness of present experiences with acceptance. Mindfulness and acceptance-based interventions have shown to have beneficial effects for older adults with depression or chronic pain. EMBRACE applies mindfulness and acceptance-based interventions that have been shown to improve quality of life and physical health.

Activities in the program motivate the patient to:

Engage
Motivate
Believe
Respect
Accept
Collaborate
Explore

Stroke

The Elara Caring diagnosis-centric program for stroke helps manage lifestyle changes, medication and stroke rehabilitation, which can reduce the risk of a recurrent stroke and improve the disabling effects of a past stroke. Our multidisciplinary clinical team includes physical and occupational therapists, speech therapist and social workers who focus on self-assessment, disease management and wellness. We provide an added layer of support with our telehealth program that provides equipment to supplement direct patient care.

Our stroke program addresses the comprehensive needs of stroke patients including:

• Transition home coordination
• Medication
• Weakness
• Pain
• Physical Movement
• Balance
• Activities of daily living
• Diet
• Swallowing
• Speech
• Anxiety and depression
• Vision changes
• Mobility
• Education
• Lifestyle changes
• Safety

Benefits include:

• Same day start of care
• 24/7/365 availability
• Stroke patient guide

Sepsis

Elara Caring partners with Sepsis Alliance in a collaboration to improve care, outcomes and early identification of patients with sepsis in the home care setting. This program is designed to put lifesaving protocols in place so that every Elara Caring team member and patient/caregiver knows how to spot the signs of sepsis and to act immediately.

Signs of sepsis:

Temperature—can be higher or lower than normal
Infection—may have signs and symptoms of an infection
Mental decline—patient may be confused, sleepy or difficult to rouse
Extremely ill—patient may experience severe pain, discomfort or shortness of breath