Providing exceptional home health care in Lancaster and surrounding areas
Providing exceptional home health care in Lancaster and surrounding areas
Home health care in Elizabethtown, PA from Extended Family Care brings medical care right to the house. Our Registered Nurses and Licensed Practical Nurses provide skilled nursing at home, our therapists offer physical, occupational and speech therapy, and our team helps you settle back in after a hospital stay. It all happens in the home you know, at a pace that suits you, and it begins with a Free Assessment whenever you're ready.
Our home health care is for older adults who are getting better after an illness, an injury, surgery or a stay in the hospital. It's also for people living with a chronic condition who would rather heal at home, in their own bed and their own chair, with family close by.
Plenty of Elizabethtown families are in that spot. About one in six people in the borough is 65 or older, and close to 1,000 are 75 or older. That's a lot of parents and grandparents who want good medical care without having to leave the house to get it.
Our in-home health care in Elizabethtown, PA covers three main things: skilled nursing, therapy at home and help with the move from the hospital back home. Each one is shaped around the person and the treatment plan from their healthcare provider. The wider picture, including our non-medical help, is on our page about the full range of home care we offer in Elizabethtown.
Skilled nursing care at home in Elizabethtown comes from our Registered Nurses (RNs) and Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs). They're trained to care for people with complex medical conditions and people recovering from surgery or illness, and they bring the same skilled nursing care we provide at home across the Lancaster area right into your living room.
IV infusions are a big part of that. Our nurses can give fluids, medications or nutrients through an IV at home, which means fewer trips to the hospital. How often you need one depends on the treatment plan from your healthcare provider.
Wound care is another. Our nurses clean, dress and keep a close eye on each wound, with a real focus on preventing infection so it heals the way it should.
Diabetes care covers blood sugar checks, keeping medications on track and the everyday lifestyle changes that help keep diabetes under control. Our nurses also check vital signs and take the time to teach you and your family how to manage the condition, whether that's medications, wound care or a special diet, so you feel confident handling things day to day.
In-home physical therapy in Elizabethtown helps people rebuild strength and get moving again, right where they live. Your therapist looks at your specific needs and tailors the exercises and stretches to you, and you save the time and energy of getting to a clinic.
Occupational therapy helps with daily activities like dressing, bathing and cooking. It builds back the strength, coordination and endurance to do them with ease. Speech therapy helps people communicate again after a stroke or brain injury, working on speech and language a step at a time.
This kind of help matters here. About six in ten borough residents age 75 and older live with a disability, compared with roughly one in six of those 65 to 74. Families often notice that change at home first, when the stairs feel steeper or the tub gets harder to step into.
Our therapists help people recover at home after a knee replacement, a hip replacement, a stroke, a fall or another injury.
Many Elizabethtown residents come home from a hospital outside the borough, and the first days back are when steady support makes the biggest difference. Our hospital to home care in Elizabethtown starts with the discharge plan. Our team works closely with your healthcare team so the care at home picks up right where the hospital left off.
Medications come next. We help keep them organized and on schedule, and we help you bring any changes or concerns to your healthcare provider.
Getting the house ready helps a lot too. Clear walkways, grab bars in the bathroom and on the stairs, and the things you use most within easy reach all make it safer to move around while you heal.
Coming home alone is common here. About one in ten Elizabethtown households is a single person 65 or older living on their own. For them, follow-up care and therapy at home, plus emotional support through the change, keep recovery moving, and our page on how we help with the move from hospital to home walks through each step.
Families often ask about the difference between home health care and home care. Home health care is medical care at home, like skilled nursing and physical, occupational or speech therapy. Home care is everyday help with living at home, like company, personal care and someone there around the clock.
Extended Family Care provides both. Alongside nursing and therapy, we offer a companion for conversation, outings and help with meals, help with bathing, dressing and grooming, hourly and round-the-clock care, care for a loved one living with dementia and comfort and support through hospice.
That way a family can stay with the same agency as needs change. Someone who starts with wound care after surgery might later want a companion a few days a week, and we can help with both.
Extended Family Care is accredited as a home health care agency by The Joint Commission. Our family of companies has provided home health services since 1938, and today we serve parts of New York, Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Families looking for a home health agency in Elizabethtown, PA with that kind of history can count on nursing care from RNs and LPNs and a care plan built around each person. Our team takes the time to learn each person's needs and preferences before that plan is set.
Our clients say it well. J.L. wrote that Suzanne "knows what she's doing, is willing to answer my questions and even to ask questions of me." A.T. shared that Anna M. "went over and above to assist the client and client's family as well as the other staff involved with his care."
Lancaster County's Office of Aging has served older adults since 1974, and it runs an In-Home Services program for older adults across the county. The office is at 150 North Queen Street in Lancaster and is open weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, in nearby Hershey, is the regional hospital many Elizabethtown residents come home from. It's central Pennsylvania's only Level I Trauma Center for both children and adults.
Every home health agency in Pennsylvania is licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Health. The state checks that agencies meet basic health and safety standards, with a survey at the start and surprise surveys over time. Medicare certification is a separate, voluntary federal approval.
Getting started is simple. Fill out the short form on our Contact Us page to request your Free Assessment, and tell us a little about who needs care and what's going on. Someone from our team will follow up by phone and email to answer your questions and talk through what care at home could look like for your family in Elizabethtown. Take your time with it. No question is too small, and anything particular to your situation is something we're glad to go over with you.
Yes. Elizabethtown is one of the Lancaster-area towns we serve with skilled nursing, in-home rehabilitation and hospital to home care, along with Columbia, Ephrata, Hershey, Lititz, Manheim and other towns nearby.
Our skilled nursing care is provided by Registered Nurses (RNs) and Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs), right in your home.
Home health care is medical care at home, such as skilled nursing and physical, occupational or speech therapy. Home care is everyday support like companionship and personal care. Extended Family Care provides both.
Yes. Our Hospital to Home Transition service works with your discharge plan and helps with medications, getting the house ready, and follow-up care and therapy once you're home.
Yes. We provide physical, occupational and speech therapy at home, including after a knee or hip replacement, a stroke, a fall or another injury.
Yes, our in-home skilled nursing services can be covered by insurance. Every plan is a little different, so it's worth checking with your insurance provider about which services are covered and any limits or requirements that apply.
Yes. Extended Family Care is accredited as a home health care agency by The Joint Commission, and our family of companies has provided home health services since 1938.
