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Examples of skilled care are wound care & dressing changes, new amputees that need assistance adjusting to their home with this new event, Just to take vital signs doesn’t qualify as skilled care as he has his vital signs checked 3x/week on dialysis. Ditto PT & OT - not acute.
Home PT & OT May not stay in for long if they feel he has reached his maximum potential. But it’s worth a try. My guess is no.
As far as being home bound, the patient is allowed to go to doctors visits and dialysis treatments, he will be ok with maintaining a home bound status.
I don’t know what skilled services he qualifies for.
I was also a dialysis RN for many years too.
Home care aids can provide hygiene such as bathing, but once or twice a week and for as long as he has home care (usually 60 days). If the agency has aides- at times we had minimal aides to provide hygiene due to staffing & then were sent to the patients with the greater need.
Maybe hire a private aide for hygiene a few times a week?
Who will go grocery shopping for him?
He should qualify for transportation to and from dialysis too. Usually patients pay a small amt according to his income, but I am thinking he won’t have to pay for this.
As for Hospice or Palliativd care (not sure what PC is at this time), dialysis is considered life sustaining treatment this dialysis patients rarely do dialysis if they choose hospice. Not sure about PC.
Sorry for this change in coverage. It’s really hard navigating the system but again, I would utilize the social worker provided at dialysis. Insist on a one on one meeting, and make her/him committ to a time. Her job is to help your dad. Keep on her!
What PC actually can provide is still apparently not clearly known as I get different responses from different people, but what I wrote above is what a very competent doctor told us.
Is he by any chance a Veteran?