An innovative, team approach to healthcare, focusing on holistic treatment of the patient and family – all in the comfort of home.
LakeView Home Health Services lets patients take the hospital home with them as an extension of their care, in a cost-effective manner. Whether they’re recovering from an illness or accident or have a permanent disability, LakeView Home Health Services can provide patients with the care they need in the comfort of their home. We serve patients in Van Buren, Kalamazoo and Cass counties.
Unique mental health component
Unique to LakeView Home Health Services is its mental health component. Through this program, we can address a patient’s mental as well as physical health needs, which often are interrelated.
Accreditation and licensing
Insurance coverage
Our team of professionals
Specialty programs
Mental health services
Cardiovascular program
Wound, ostomy and incontinence management
For more information
Accreditation and licensing
LakeView Home Health Services is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, and all nurses, therapists and social workers are licensed.
Insurance coverage
Most LakeView Home Health Services are covered by Medicare, Medicaid and commercial insurance. As a service to our patients, we submit claims to insurance providers and process all the necessary paperwork.
Our team of professionals
Our team of dedicated professionals provides personal, professional care that is based on the needs of each patient and coordinated by a registered nurse.
Registered nurses
- Coordination of services for safe and effective in-home care
- Observation and assessment of medical status and response to treatment
- Care-plan instruction
- Teaching care of chronic illness
- Medication management
- Post-surgery and wound care
- Infusion therapy
- EKG and IV diuretic therapy
Medical social workers
- Resource planning and assistance
- Planning for alternative living arrangements
- Community referrals
Occupational therapists
- Assessment and instruction regarding home safety
- Energy conservation techniques
- Instruction in activities of daily living
Physical therapists
- Walking and transfer skills
- Muscle strengthening
- Assessment and rehabilitation
Speech-language pathologists
- Communication skills
- Retraining for swallowing and eating
Home health assistants
- Personal care, bathing, dressing
- Caregiver relief
Specialty programs
LakeView Home Health Services offers a full range of specialty programs not found elsewhere, including:
- Psychiatric nursing
- Cardiovascular nursing (includes EKGs and IV diuretics)
- Dementia rehabilitation
- Fall intervention
- Skin/wound care
- Ostomy/incontinence
- Pediatric nursing
- Pediatric rehabilitation (occupational, physical and speech therapy)
Mental health services
Our program supports individuals in maintaining independence in the community while learning to cope with mental illness. The program offers:
- The largest team of experienced, certified psychiatric/mental health nurses in Southwest Michigan
- Mental health consultation and evaluation services
- Services provided in adult foster care facilities
- Caregiver support and education about dementia, Alzheimer’s and other disorders
- 24-hour and weekend on-call support from psychiatric nurses
- Priority access to LakeView’s inpatient geropsychiatric unit
- Coordination with community agencies and resources
- Specialized dementia-rehabilitation protocol
Who could benefit from home health services?
- Homebound clients with psychiatric symptom, with or without medical problems
- Clients with a new psychiatric diagnosis needing close management
- Chronic mental health clients experiencing an acute episode
- Medical clients showing psycho-social symptoms that are inhibiting their progress
- Clients with impairments that make it impossible to access outpatient mental health services
What does the mental home health team provide?
- Psychiatric/mental health nurse
- Medication administration, management and education
- Supportive counseling
- Teaching and training of client and caregivers
- Case management for total care coordination with physicians and community resources
Additional support services tailored to each patient’s condition are provided by medical social workers; physical therapists, occupational therapists and speech-language pathologists; and home health aides.
What are the benefits of mental home health care?
- Reduced length of hospital stay
- Reduce use of emergency and crisis intervention services
- Improved quality of life
- Improved patient compliance with medication and treatment
Cardiovascular program
LakeView Home Health Services in uniquely qualified to provide extensive cardiovascular services in the home.
Goals of the program
- In-home treatment as directed by the physician to regain/maintain optimal health
- Prevention of progression of the disease process
- Decrease hospital length of stay and readmission rate
- Great emphasis on teaching patient/family to manage own care and medications
Services
- Cardiac assessment by RNs with competencies in cardiac assessment
- Cardiac education for patient/family
- Post-acute care CHF, acute MI, post CABG, post-valve replacement, endocarditis and cardiomyopathy
- Diet instruction/modification
- Medication teaching, monitoring of medication changes and anticoagulant monitoring
- Dressing changes, infusion therapy, venipuncture for lab monitoring of unstable conditions and medication changes
- X-rays and Holter monitoring in home in conjunction with the Nursing Home Group
- In-home simple spirometry teaching
- Single lead and 12-lead EKGs by RN staff
- Pulse oximetry every visit until stable
Staff qualifications
- RN case managers with cardiac/critical care experience
- All nursing staff BCLS certified
- Cardiovascular nursing staff with training and competency testing in basic EKG and cardiac drugs
- Registered dietician available for consultation
- PICC line-certified RN, certified infusion therapy nurse
- Nursing supervisor/program manager with six years experience as cardiac nurse
Wound, ostomy and incontinence management
Our team of professionals includes certified wound, ostomy and incontinence nurses as well as physical therapists and occupational therapists.
Consultation and treatment recommendations
- Acute non-healing wounds
- Chronic wound care
- Lower extremity ulcers
- Pressure ulcers
- Compression therapy
- Specialized wound dressings and devices
- Mechanical, chemical and autolytic debridement
- Fistula management
Incontinence care
- Skin management
- Bladder training
- Bowel training
Ostomy care
- Pre-operative stoma site marking
- Enterostomal care
- Urostomy care
- Pouching difficulties
Patient and family education
Board-certified nurses
Our team includes these specially qualified healthcare providers:
Laura Darr, RN, BSN, CWOCN
- Board-certified wound, ostomy and continence nurse
- 10 years experience in acute and chronic would care
Cynthia Davis, RN, BSN, CWCN
- Board-certified wound-care nurse
- 21 years experience in acute and chronic wound care
For more information
For more information or to make a referral to LakeView Home Health Services, call:
269.657.2800
800.573.6789
269.657.1676 FAX
info@lakeviewcares.com
