Referrals & Transfers

Who could benefit from Hartford HealthCare at Home Rehabilitation? 

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Does your patient have a difficulty with confusion at any level, including memory problems?

Physical Therapy

• Ambulation, gait abnormality, new assistive device
• Difficulty with stairs
• Falls risk or history of falls 

Occupational Therapy

• Dressing, grooming
• Bathing
• Feeding/meal preparation
• Patient has help at home for self-care

Physical / Occupational Therapy

• Bed mobility (scooting, turning, sitting up)
• Transfers (toilet, tub, sit to stand)
• Weakness or deconditioning
• Patient lives alone safety concerns
• Dyspnea / difficulty breathing at any level

Speech Language

• Pathology
• Swallowing
• Difficulty speaking clearly

Anyone requiring...

Treatment

• Wound care
• Catheter/tube care (insertion, removal / maintenance)
• Drainage tubes (Pleurx, pneumostat, suprapubic, foley, nephrostomy, hemovac)
• Enteral feedings
• Trach care / suctioning / oxygen
• Central line care / PICC
• Suture/staple removal
• Insulin administration
• Injections
• Infusion (antibiotics, pain management & nutrition)
• Ostomy care

Assessment

• Clinical status (diabetes, hypertension, heart failure, asthma, other unstable conditions)
• Wounds
• Pain
• Social surroundings
• Environment/home safety
• Self-care skills
• Response to new treatments / medications
• Rehabilitation needs
• Glucose measurement

Teaching

• Medication administration
• Disease management
• Self-care
• Special diets
• Speech, swallowing
• Therapeutic exercise
• Assistive devices, DME
• Stroke recovery program
• COPD management
• ADLs

Limited services or services not provided

• IV Care
• Lymphedema Therapy
• Medication administration
• Management of tracheostomy or ventilators
• Management of IV/infusion (but we do contract for this service)
• Pediatrics
• Daily Chronic care (service provided is intermittent and typically not daily)
• Speech Therapy Services (in Eastern CT)