Our skilled practical and registered nurses will deliver a number of quality healthcare services which include:

• Wound care
• Post-surgical care
• Disease management
• Diabetes management etc.

We make sure that proper procedure is done by professionals in providing catheter care, IV and respiratory treatments, infusion therapy, and others.

Personal Care is one of the main services in the Home Health Care industry. It includes assistance with everyday activities to help the ones in need and make the elderly life peaceful. Personal care services are related to assistance with dressing, hygiene, and incontinence services.

Our palliative team works with the patient’s physicians to better understand the psychological, physical, social, or spiritual distress of serious illness and its treatments. Some of the problems that palliative care addresses are:

• Anxiety
• Confusion
• Constipation
• Depression
• Diarrhea
• Family concerns, stress, and fear
• Loss

Dementia care offers memory care services, medication management, and attention. Often in later stages of dementia, it's too difficult for a family to take care of their loved ones as they need more specialized, expert care from trained professionals.

Wounds of ill people may be slow to heal, resistant to standard therapies, and prone to infection. These difficult-to-heal wounds require the specialized treatment of a wound center. Examples of wounds we treat include:

• Diabetic foot ulcers
• Lower leg ulcers
• Pressure ulcers
• Bone infections (osteomyelitis)
• Soft-tissue infections
• Radiation injury
• Post-surgical wound delayed healing
• Non-healing traumatic wounds

Occupational Therapy Services help patients to restore their independence and mobility. Our occupational therapists will assist you in:

• Patient re-education
• Home safety
• Engaging in recreational activities
• Patient assessment on energy management and conservation
• Assessment and evaluation of health and basic skills
• Planning and implementation of therapeutic programs
• Basic level skills education and training
• Device assistance training, and work simplification (laundry, meal preparation, bathing, grooming, eating, etc.)

Our physical therapists offer services that include, but are not limited to:

• Orthopedics
• Pain management
• Body mechanics
• Education and training in the use of assistive devices
• Improving range of motion
• Muscle re-education
• Sports rehabilitation therapy
• Flexibility training
• Aquatic (pool) therapy
• Arthritis care
• Back and neck care
• Hand therapy
• Pre- and post-surgery care

The main goal of speech therapy is to help a patient regain communication skills. So, they can easily interact with the environment and express their needs and desires. The therapy also focuses on regaining the ability to eat and swallow without the help of the other people. The advantage of the speech therapy is it can be performed at their home and every therapy is designed according to the patient’s needs. This is especially important for people suffering from dementia or cognitive impairment.

Medical social workers create long-range plans, such as advance care planning, and educate both patients and their families about community resources and support. Medical social services include:

• Assessing social and emotional factors<
• Advanced care planning
• Community resource planning
• Advanced directives
• Crisis intervention
• Counseling
• Teaching regarding coping with loss and change

GVA Home Healthcare Services is committed to delivering the highest quality and most efficient non-medical emergency transportation services to our clients. We provide professional “door-through-door” local and long distance non-emergency medical transportation. Our specialized transportation is available to all, including senior citizens, people with limited mobility, people using wheelchairs, and parents of children with special needs.