Utah Home Health and Hospice

Lighten Home Health provides personalized, patient-centered care. Each patient will have a personal Case Manager whose responsibility is to ensure the well-being of each patient.

Lighten Health

This is why we are different.

CDC
Approved

We provide a CDC approved fall prevention and balance program.

Stem Cell Technology

We provide extensive wound care in patients homes using new stem cell graft technology.

Personalized Care Plans

We create personalized care plans based on patient needs and conditions

Prevent
Hospitalization

We prevent hospitalizations

Home Health

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Helping You Restore Your Lifestyle

Home health can include care given in the home by skilled medical professionals (clinicians) including, skilled nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech therapy.

Home health can also include non-medical care, such as social services or assistance with daily living from a home health aide. The goal of home health is to help patients get better, reach a level of independence, become as self-sufficient as possible, and reduce the risk for unnecessary hospitalizations.

Skilled nursing

Rehabilitative Services: physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy

Medical social services and counseling

Personalized case management

Home health aide services

Advanced wound care

IV infusions

Lymphedema therapy

Otago fall prevention program

Hospice

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Helping You To Get The Most Out Of Life's Journey

Hospice is not a place, rather, a type of care focused on the patient and their needs. Our Hospice service is designed to come to you; whether it is a single-family residence, assisted living, nursing home, or apartment.

The goal of hospice care is to provide physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual comfort for those who are terminally ill.

Our comprehensive clinical team provides:

Skilled nursing

Medication for pain relief & symptom management

Medical equipment & oxygen supplies

Certified aides for personal care & homemaking

Spiritual care and family support

24/7 on-call nurse

Respite care (Caregiver support)

Dietitian consultant

Volunteer support program

Physician home visits

Medical Social Services to assist with end of life planning

Home Care and Hospice Services

Medicare provides home health and hospice services to patients who are homebound and need assistance caring for themselves at home. These services if aligned correctly to the patient's current condition increase quality of life and promote comfort. Home Health is a program that is 100% covered by Medicare and focuses on an individual's ability to rehabilitate. If a patient does not have rehabilitative potential and experiences uncontrolled symptoms and frequent rehospitalization and doctors visits they may be more appropriate for Hospice.

Hospice is generally misunderstood by the public but if understood correctly provides great benefits to patients and their families lives. When patients have attempted Home Health and have failed to reach goals or continue to decline physically they may be appropriate for Hospice. Other scenarios when patients may be appropriate for Hospice Care are when patients have decided to stop seeking curative treatments or have a terminal diagnosis that is significantly limiting their life and quality of life.

Home Health and Hospice are highly complimentary service lines. If a patient does not qualify for Home Health Care they may be appropriate for hospice as explained above. If patients that are currently receiving Hospice Care begin to recover they could once again qualify for Home Health Care.

Frequently Asked Questions

For Home Services

How long and how frequently will I be receiving services?

What services are provided on home health?

For Hospice Services

What’s the life expectancy for a patient that is on hospice?

How much money does Hospice care cost?

Medicare and Medicaid patients receive Home Health Care and Hospice Care at no cost to them. Home Health and Hospice Care is one of the few services that Medicare and Medicaid covers at 100%. If patients have other commercial health insurance plans patients can contact Lighten Home Health for a consultation on cost. Most commercial health plans do not cover Home Health and Hospice Care 100%.

Our Home Health Process

1. Whether in a hospital or at home, a patient needs a physician order to be written to receive home health services.

2. The patient’s physician will document diagnoses and patient history that will show the patient meets medical requirements to be admitted for services. Lighten will work directly with the Doctor to ensure the proper documentation is provided.

3. Our intake coordinator will verify insurance benefits to ensure the patient is covered to receive home health services.

4. Our scheduler from Lighten will call the patient and/or family to set up the initial evaluation in the patient’s place of residence with a Lighten nurse case manager and/or physical therapist.

5. During the initial evaluation, the nurse case manager/physical therapist will determine the frequency of visits and, with the patient, create a personalized plan of care.

Our Hospice Process

1. In order to be admitted for hospice services, a patient must first meet hospice eligibility requirements determined by the patient’s primary care physician.

2. The patient will receive an order to be admitted to hospice by their primary care physician. Lighten representatives will work with the Doctor to ensure proper documentation is provided.

3. Once the order is received, a representative from Lighten will call the patient and/or family to set up the initial evaluation in the patient’s place of residence with a Lighten nursing case manager.

4. A Lighten nurse case manager will come to the patient’s place of residence to perform the initial assessment who will help create a personalized plan of care focused on the needs of the patient.

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