Wellness-At-Home Firm offers Behavioral Health Services also called Psychiatric or Mental Health Services. We have nurses and technicians who work in behavioral health settings and are very knowledgeable in caring for these types of patients. Our services include:

  • Consultations, assessments, and evaluations by psychiatric nurses.
  • Improve coping, communication, and other skills through in-home mental health treatment with a social worker.
  • Management of symptoms and illnesses, medical education, coping mechanisms, and communication abilities. Venipuncture and monitoring of blood levels of psychotropic medication.
  • Medication administration monitoring and management
  • Care coordination with the patient’s medical team and the health care team referrals to beneficial local services.
  • Education for patients and family members about behavioral symptoms, medications, and management.

A psychiatric nurse works with your doctor, your caregiver, and you to develop a unique treatment plan. We’ll learn about your requirements and difficulties in order to find solutions and open doors that will keep you safe at home. Your doctor will request visits from your mental health home care team after an initial examination.

The goal of Psychiatric health care is to

  • Prevent and decrease hospitalizations
  • Expand access to mental health services
  • Provide follow-up treatment
  • Help families maintain community living and improve their quality of life.

According to the Department of Human Services Division of Mental Health and Addiction services a Health Home must have the capability to provide all of the following services, as warranted based on members’ needs, in accordance with guidance from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS),:

  • Comprehensive care management: an interactive method created to better manage physical, emotional, and social health issues.
  • Care coordination: the implementation and oversight of a comprehensive plan to aid in locating the right connections, referrals, coordination, and follow-up to required services and supports.
  • Health promotion: To urge people to adopt healthy behaviors and to advance better health management and wellness, promote healthy living ideals.
  • Comprehensive transitional care (including appropriate follow-up from inpatient to other settings): services with a focus on coordinating the transfer of patients between facilities offering various levels of care.
  • Individual and family support: Activities, resources, or services targeted at lowering obstacles to goal accomplishment, increasing health outcomes, and boosting health literacy and self-efficacy abilities.
  • Referral to community and social support services: Find resources and make recommendations, such as those for medical and mental health treatment, entitlements and benefits, respite care, housing, transportation, legal services, educational opportunities, and employment.
  • Use of health information to link services as feasible and appropriate.

It is expected that the use of a behavioral health home model will result in improved health outcomes for the consumer base, better quality of treatment, improved cost-effectiveness; improved consumer experience with care; and declines in the use of hospitals, emergency departments, and other costly inpatient care.

If the Behavioral Health Home program may be of interest to you.

Please get in touch with us if you or a loved one does not have a formal diagnosis or if you are unsure of whether their mental health issue will make them eligible for help. Our Psychiatric Mental Health Board Certified DON at Wellness-At-Home will provide the information that you need.

There are eligibility criteria for Mental Health Care services:

To be eligible for Medicare health care services, a patient must have Medicare Part A and/orPart B and, per §1814(a)(2)(C) and §1835(a)(2)(A) of the Act:

  1. Be confined to the home;
  2. Need skilled services;
  3. Be under the care of a physician;
  4. Receive services under a plan ofcare established and reviewed by a physician; and
  5. Have had a face-to-face encounter with aphysician or allowed non-physician practitioner (NPP). Care must be furnished by or underarrangements made by a Medicare-participating Home Health Agency (HHA)

Patient Eligibility: Confined to the Home

The patient may be considered homebound (that is, confined to the home) if absences from the home are:

  • infrequent;
  • for periods of relatively short duration;
  • for the need to receive health care treatment;
  • for religious services;
  • to attend adult day care programs; or
  • for other unique or infrequent events (e.g., funeral, graduation, trip to the barber).

Patient Eligibility: Examples of Confined to the Home:

A patient who is blind or senile and requires another person’s assistance in leaving their residence.

A patient who has just returned from a hospital stay, involving surgery, may be suffering from resultant weakness and pain and; therefore, their actions may be restricted by their physician to certain specified and limited activities such as getting out of bed only for a specified period of time or walking stairs only once a day.

A patient with a psychiatric illness that is manifested, in part, by a refusal to leave home or is of such a nature that it would not be considered safe for the patient to leave home unattended, even if they have no physical limitations.