Merit's comprehensive approach to managing all facets of rehabilitation—from traditional rehabilitation to complex catastrophic spinal cord, brain, and traumatic injury care—sets us apart as a unique rehabilitation home health care provider.

Our Clinical Rehabilitation Team Assesses All Aspects Of Home Care Needs:

Merit professionals provide:

• Assessments of home environment prior to hospital/facility discharge
• Plan of care development in collaboration with the patient, family, physician, case manager, discharge planner, and payer
• Education of family and staff caregivers
• Coordination of skilled nursing, therapy visits, and patient/family psychosocial services
• Coordination of custodial aides, homemakers, and live-in private duty caregivers
• Instruction in the use of rehab equipment and techniques to promote independence
• Ongoing coordination, oversight, and evaluation
• Communication with the patient, physician, case manager, discharge planner, and payer regarding the discharge process
• Videotaping of transfer techniques and physical therapy treatment methods for caregiver education

Merit Rehabilitation Consultant Services Include:

• Home environmental evaluations and recommendations
• Wound and skin care evaluations and recommendations
• Appropriate adaptive equipment needs planning
• Bed surface and equipment needs assessment
• Trust and guardianship catastrophic care assessment and management
• Community and facility rehabilitation education programs

For top quality, coordinated Home Health Care for those requiring Rehabilitative Services, Merit is the right choice.

For referrals and information, please call 888 - 637- 4848