Home Care
Grand Itasca Home Care provides patient care in the comfort of one's own home or assisted living environment. We serve patients of all ages, from infants to elderly. Together with the patient, family and medical care provider, we create a care plan that meets the patient's needs while allowing them to remain safely in their home.
We take into account your physical, spiritual and emotional needs and work with your entire health care team to ensure quality and continuity of care.
An experienced Registered Nurse Case Manager visits each patient's home and can provide assessment, teaching, medication management and other skilled nursing procedures while evaluating the patient’s progress, coordinating services and helping the patient meet their health care goals. The Registered Nurse Case Manager is a resource that coordinates care with the patient's provider, family and other health care professionals.
Based on a patient’s goals and needs, Grand Itasca Home Care services may include home health aides, physical and occupational therapies, skilled nursing, social work and speech therapy.
Benefits for Patients
- Care in the comfort of home
- Improved health outcomes
- Reduced hospital readmissions
- Personalized, one-on-one care
- Support for independence
Who can benefit from Home Care?
- Multiple emergency room visits
- Recent hospitalization
- High risk for hospitalizations
- Multiple medications or medication changes
- High risk for falls
- New diagnosis
- Unstable condition
- Recent procedure or illness
Services we provide
Occupational therapists (OT) assess self-care skills such as dressing, bathing, and eating as well as more complex tasks such as meal preparation and light housekeeping.
Examples of OT interventions include adaptive self-care techniques, strategies to compensate for cognitive (mental functioning dealing with learning and reasoning) impairment, energy conservation, and strengthening.
OT interventions:
- Adaptive equipment and medical equipment assessments
- Caregiver and family training
- Equipment training
- ADL skills training
- Cognitive neuro rehab
- Education – energy conservation
- Education – home safety
- Equipment training
- Instruction – caregiver training
- Instruction – home exercise program
- Lymphedema
- Medical equipment assessments
- Perform manual procedures/modality treatment
- Therapeutic exercise
- Ultrasound
- Wheelchair evaluation and management
Please note: Long-term maintenance therapy is not provided
Physical therapists (PT) evaluate daily activities with a focus on safety, mobility, balance, and endurance.
Examples of PT interventions include transferring from one location to another (i.e. bed to wheelchair), walking, and stair training, as well as progressive strengthening, balance and fall prevention strategies.
PT Interventions:
- Aerobic capacity training
- Assessment – vestibular function
- Balance training
- Education – home safety
- Gait Training
- Home safety assessment
- Instruction – home exercise program
- Instruction – ways to minimize vertigo severity
- Lymphedema
- Muscle strengthening exercises
- Neuro rehab
- Pain assessment & management
- Perform manual procedures/modality treatment
- Soft tissue mobilization
- Therapeutic exercise
- Transfer Training
- Ultrasound
- Wheelchair evaluation and managemen
Please note: Long-term maintenance therapy is not provided.
- Assessments
- Cardiac assessment, oxygen monitoring, new oxygen teaching
- Case Management
- Catheter care
- Collaboration with Public Health & care coordinators
- Disease management
- Injections
- IV infusion therapy
- Lab work
- Medication management & teaching
- Ostomy care & teaching
- Pain management
- Patient/caregiver education, e.g., diabetes or heart failure
- Post-surgical care
- PleurX catheters
- Post-partum follow-up
- PT/INR management
- Symptom management
- Wound care
- Wound vacs
Speech therapists (ST) assess and treat speech, language, cognitive-communication, voice, swallowing, fluency and other related disorders.
Examples of ST interventions include treating speech, language, cognitive-communication and swallowing disorders in individuals of all levels, from infancy to the elderly, utilizing an individualized plan with both long-term and short-term goals established for each individual’s needs.
Speech & Language Pathology interventions:
- Instruct patient/caregiver on voice production
- Vital stimulation treatment
- Instruction feeding/swallowing techniques
- Articulation skills
- Auditory Processing skills
- Aural rehab
- Expressive verbal language
- Eye contact/attention
- Fluency
- Functional use of augmented/alternative com system
- Receptive language skills
- Swallow-oral motor ability
Please Note: Speech & Language Pathology services are limited. Please call 218-999-4663 (HOME) to check availability.
- Caregiver support strategies
Please note: Social worker services are not currently available. Our Home Care nurses partner with Clinic Care Coordinators/Social Workers and the Elder Circle social worker through the Home Visitor’s Program to help address patient needs.
- Bathing and dressing assistance is provided by a nurse or occupational therapist
About Us:
Joint Commission Accredited, Medicare Certified, licensed with the Minnesota Department of Health as a Comprehensive Home Care Agency
Service Area:
Grand Rapids and surrounding communities
Acceptance-To-Service:
We strive to ensure that patients are accepted for services/treatment on the expectation that our agency can meet the patient’s anticipated medical, nursing, rehabilitative, and social needs in the patient’s place of residence, in an appropriate and safe manner.
Paying for Care:
Different types of home health care services may be covered by insurance. Insurance plans vary from patient to patient. We can help you verify eligibility and coverage. Some common plans include:
- Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
- Commercial insurance i.e. Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Private Pay
- Medical Assistance
- Medicare
Grand Itasca Home Care Office:
111 SE 3rd Street Grand Rapids, MN
Office Hours: 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM, Monday-Friday
On-Call RN available 24/7 by calling 218-999-4663 (HOME)