Home Care FAQs

Home health care focuses on treating and managing an illness, injury, or medical condition that may or may not follow a hospital stay or medical diagnosis. Home health care is delivered directly to a patient in their home by licensed medical professionals including nurses, therapists and home health aides. Care centers on helping patients maintain or regain their independence.

You may qualify for home health care if:

• You have recently been discharged from a hospital or rehabilitation facility
• You have been told by your physician that you need physical, occupational or speech therapy
• You are unsteady on your feet or fearful of falling
• You are unsure of how to manage your medications

At Beth Israel Lahey Health At Home, we accept several insurance plans — many plans cover home health services at no cost to you. To find out more, call us at 781-756-2488 (or toll-free at 855-413-6342).

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Beth Israel Lahey Health At Home offers a full range of medical assistance and rehabilitative services to assist in your recovery and to enhance independent disease management from your own home.

Services include:

• Skilled nursing
• Physical, occupational and speech-language therapy
• Cardiac and pulmonary care
• Neurorehabilitation
• Wound care
• Infusion services
• Medication management
• Pain management
• Patient education to promote self-management
• Telehealth/remote monitoring
• Treatment for balance/fall prevention

Home health care provides medically necessary services that are prescribed or ordered by a physician. It does not provide services such as cooking, cleaning or bathing. To qualify for home health services, patients must meet the “homebound” requirements to qualify for Medicare, which means their condition prevents them from being able to safely leave the home without assistance.