UVM Health Network – Home Health & Hospice provides a wide range of high-quality, compassionate home health care for adults with acute and chronic illnesses.
Skilled Nursing & Therapy Services
Our skilled nursing services for adults include clinical assessment, care management and coordination, teaching, and treatments as ordered by your provider (physician, nurse practitioner or physician assistant).
Our skilled physical, occupational, and speech-language therapy services promote recovery and enhance independence.
For our patients receiving skilled nursing or therapy services, we offer home health aide care. Our licensed nursing assistants provide skilled services and help with activities of daily living, according to your plan of care.
Medical Social Work
We also offer social work services, including counseling and support to address financial barriers and unmet needs like access to food, medications, and stable housing.
Wound Care
Our complex wound and ostomy (an artificial opening in an organ of the body following an operation) services are managed by nurses who have specialized training and are certified in wound and ostomy care.
Wound care is appropriate for many post-surgical, slow-healing or problematic wounds, diabetes-related wounds, etc. Care for wounds can include cleaning and changing dressings, medication review, monitoring progress, managing pain, and patient education.
Our nurses can provide comprehensive ostomy care in your home, and coordinate with your physician on the best strategies to promote healing.
Remote Patient Monitoring Services
Our remote patient monitoring services allow for daily monitoring of your vital signs through the use of technology that transmits important information to a nurse located in the Home Health & Hospice offices.
By responding sooner to changes, we can often prevent an emergency department visit or hospitalization. These services are currently available for patients receiving Adult Home Health services who have a qualifying heart or lung condition.
For existing Adult Home Health patients, our Longitudinal Care program provides care management and support for high-risk patients who are no longer eligible for traditional adult home health services. Patients with multiple hospitalizations, emergency department visits, episodes of skilled home health services, or a combination of complex conditions are eligible to become enrolled.
The program offers remote patient monitoring and monthly home visits by a nurse and other supportive services provided by social workers and community health workers.
High-Tech Nursing Program (Pediatric & Adult)
The High-Tech Nursing program provides medically necessary care by registered nurses (RNs) or licensed practical nurses (LPNs), as authorized by the State of Vermont and as available based upon staffing.
Patients must maintain Vermont Medicaid eligibility, be a Vermont resident, be referred by their physician and assessed by the State of Vermont for eligibility.
Generally, patients must:
- Require skilled nursing care greater than what is provided via intermittent skilled nursing services
- Require services more extensive than those offered by a personal care attendant or a home health aide
- Require medical technology/equipment to maintain their health and safety
- Have two non-UVM Health Network primary caregivers that are able to manage the patient’s care needs.
To learn more about qualification for this program, please visit the Vermont Department of Health website, healthvermont.gov.
Foot Care Services
In the greater Burlington area, foot care services are available for those paying privately (not through insurance).
Trained nurses provide foot care services through individual appointments in home settings and clinics held at certain community and senior living locations. These services include a visual assessment of the foot and lower leg for changes in the skin, toenail clips and filing, inspection of footwear, massage, and referral to a medical specialist when necessary.
