• Physical Therapy • Speech Therapy
• Massage Therapy • Hand Therapy
• Occupational Therapy
Maryland's Therapy Leader
| Homecare Staffing With Gateway
Tremendous Growth, Tremendous Experience
Currently the fastest part of our staffing division, Home Care is an area of health care that we have a tremendous amount of experience in. We have surveyed our staff and repackaged how we deliver these services in such a way that it has become tremendously more successful for all involved.
Accuracy, Flexibility and Professionalism
For the agencies we service, we have established our own quality control center to ensure the timeliness and accuracy of all documentation required. For the therapists we have the flexibility and dependability they are looking for with in their career. We have just about any type of split position one might want between work settings or full time with every Friday off. It’s all very well worked out to achieve maximum satisfaction for all involved.
Our Physical Therapists- - Evaluate patient and caregiver safety in the home, regarding ambulation, transfers and lifting; in order to identify adaptive equipment needs.
- Make home safety recommendations to reduce the risk of injury, to patient and caregivers.
- Participate, as part of a team, to provide treatment which will maximize patient independence, and minimize risk of injury.
- Develop a realistic home exercise program, in writing, which the patient can perform to achieve his or her own sense of accomplishment on a daily basis.
- Develop and administer a treatment plan designed to achieve the patient’s goals.
Our Occupational Therapists- - Evaluate a patient’s level of safety and independence in their home.
- Recommend home modifications to increase safety with Activities of Daily Living (ADL)
- Provide therapeutic interventions, to include ADL training, functional transfer training, safety awareness training, and adaptive equipment training, to increase a patient’s independence with ADL’s.
- Determine appropriate adaptive equipment needs to assist with increasing patient independence.
- Provide home exercise programs to increase a patient’s upper extremity strength and/or to maintain upper extremity range of motion.
- Provide family education, regarding how to encourage patients to participate in ADL’s, and how to encourage carryover of home exercise programs.
- Determine upper extremity splinting needs and help patient or family to obtain splints as appropriate.
Our Speech Therapists- - Provide evaluations, and appropriate testing and treatments, for patients with speech and/ or language disorders, cognitive deficits, and swallowing disorders.
- Evaluate swallowing dysfunctions and modify patient’s diet accordingly.
- Teach the patient and family how to reduce the risk of aspiration.
- Maximize communication by improving patient’s sound production along with work clarity.
- Work with the patient to improve their safety with eating and swallowing.
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