Returning from the hospital must be more like the start of a healing process and less like the start of uncertainty about the next steps. Familiar surroundings, familiar bed, the comfort of the rhythms of a place that belongs completely to you and the ones you love. For most patients, going home is more than just where they want to be while they heal; the research shows that being at home is where they heal best with the help of proper professional assistance.

Patient home care services fill the void between being discharged from the hospital and being healed. With the help of patient home care services, a qualified professional comes to your place for the treatment so that healing can occur in the setting that is most comfortable to you.

Why Home Based Patient Care Delivers Better Outcomes

Under the conventional patient treatment paradigm, one would have to visit hospitals and clinics for all follow-ups, dressing of wounds, medication, and other sessions irrespective of their physical well-being, ability to move around, or the inconvenience associated with constant traveling when they are already drained by the effects of sickness, operation, or living with the burden of disease. 

This puts pressure on patients who have undergone an operation, frail elderly persons for whom traveling is extremely tough and sometimes unhealthy, or persons who are dealing with chronic diseases and need professional care regularly in a way that hampers rather than helps their healing process.

The home-based care service provides a solution to all these challenges at once. People receive care in a familiar and emotionally safe environment where stress levels are considerably reduced, and people feel comfortable being in such a healing environment. Care is provided directly to the patient by professionals and not vice versa, which saves patients’ energies and helps them in healing. Moreover, family members are able to get naturally involved in caring for their loved ones without having to exhaust themselves physically and emotionally during hospital visits.

What Professional Patient Home Care Services Cover

• Post-operative recovery and wound care: Patients who have had an operation and need to be discharged from the hospital need professional wound dressing, monitoring for any infections, management of drains and proper administration of medication. Professional identification of any surgical complications early on prevents small problems from becoming big medical emergencies which would lead to costly hospital readmissions that will cause a major setback to recovery.
• Management of chronic diseases: People with conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, respiratory diseases and renal disorders will greatly benefit from being professionally monitored, having their medication managed, diet planned and lifestyles supported through home nursing services without the stress of constant trips to the outpatient department using up the energy needed to recover and cope.
• Intravenous therapy and injectable drugs: Intravenous fluid and antibiotic therapies and other drug therapies that used to take patients to hospitals or clinics can now be taken at home by professionals without compromising clinical standards, effectiveness of the treatment and the professional management that medical treatment requires.
• Vital signs assessment and health evaluation: Regular tests of blood pressure, blood sugar, oxygen saturation, and temperature provide the treating physician with reliable and up-to-date information regarding the patient's progress in the period between official examinations, which is possible thanks to the absence of the need for visits to the clinic that will waste the patient's energy better spent on recovery and healing.
• Care for the elderly and full daily assistance: Patients who require assistance with movement, personal hygiene, taking medications, nutrition, preventing falls, and companies receive all-round dignified care that keeps the patient's independence and quality of life as high as is possible due to their individual condition during the whole course of assistance.
• Physiotherapy and rehabilitation at home: Patients after operations, stroke, neurologic event, and heart attack get huge benefits from physiotherapy at home when rehabilitation starts in the real-life environment where the patient spends all his time instead of the clinical one that is hard to reach due to exhausting trips.

Choosing the Right Patient Home Care Provider

Home care service quality rests solely in the hands of the professionals who deliver the care every day in your loved one’s home, which will be determined by their professionalism, integrity, and skills. Choosing the provider based on careful assessment ensures the safety of your family member and gives your family real peace of mind, knowing that care is in competent hands at such an emotionally challenging time.

Seek providers whose nurses and caregivers are certified professionals who are registered with the relevant nursing or healthcare boards, as well as those whose background check is impeccable to ensure that they not only have the necessary qualifications but are also of good character and can be trusted in the home setting. Select a provider who will ensure continuity of care by having the same professional familiarize himself or herself with the patient and his or her needs over a period of time as opposed to using different caregivers each time.

It is important to select a provider who ensures that there is continuous communication between him or her and the patient's physicians at all times.

Your Loved One Deserves to Heal at Home With Professional Support

Not only is recovery a physiological phenomenon gauged by clinical parameters and progress made. Recovery is also a process that is experienced psychologically and most fully and most naturally in an environment that is truly safe, truly familiar, and truly enveloped by the presence of those who matter most to the patient throughout each phase of the process.

To receive patient home care services that deliver true medical expertise along with true human compassion right at the doorstep of your loved ones, call Swaasaa Healthcare and provide your family members with the professional assistance they deserve in each phase of their recovery process.