Home Health provides necessary health care services at home for patients recovering from surgeries, injuries, and illness when hospitalization is no longer necessary, but they are unable to perform normal activities on their own.

Who Can Receive Services

Lexington Regional Health Center’s Home Health covers a 45-mile radius around Lexington including Dawson, Gosper, Buffalo, Custer, Phelps, Furnas, and Frontier counties. We are certified by Medicare and Medicaid and work with private insurance companies who offer home health benefits. The agency is able to care for newborn through geriatric patients from both traditional and non-traditional family structures with a variety of social, cultural, psychosocial, spiritual, and educational backgrounds.

Services Available

Home Health offers a wide range of services. Medical services include dressing changes, medications, IV services and blood draws, pain management, and speech and rehabilitation services. This service also offers 24-hour on-call staff, assistance from home health aides, skilled nursing services from RNs and LPNs, along with treatment plans and physicians’ reports. Home medical equipment, health fair opportunities, and transportation for everyday activities, including shopping and doctor’s appointments, are also available.

Assessing Patient Needs

A Lexington Regional Health Center Home Health admission nurse makes an initial assessment within 48 to 72 hours after receiving a referral from a physician that a patient is home from a medical or care facility. The admission nurse coordinates with the patient and the family to make the initial assessment.

When meeting the admission criteria, Lexington Regional Home Health nurses work closely with physicians to evaluate and determine the best and most appropriate services to help patients get better. Reassessment occurs according to the physician’s plan of care and as the patient’s condition warrants.

Home Health nurses believe nursing consists of assessing and meeting the client’s needs by:

  • Implementing and coordinating a plan of care designed by a registered nurse after consultation with the patient and the family, and in compliance with the physician’s orders.
  • Assisting patients to establish and attain healthcare goals as described.
  • Educating patients in order to promote and maintain their health and goals, as well as to take responsibility for continuing those measures to attain and maintain the highest level of function.
  • Promoting patient quality of life in all areas of care.

The purpose and goals of Lexington Regional Health Center’s Home Health Department are:

  • Assure quality nursing care according to ANA/NLN Nursing Standards for Geriatric and Home Health Nursing
  • Offer home care as a reasonable alternative to acutely, chronically, or terminally ill clients
  • Provide and promote continuity of care for clients at home, to and from the hospital, nursing home, or extended care facility
  • Promote the highest level of rehabilitation and independence through restorative nursing care using a team approach and collaborating with therapy disciplines as appropriate
  • Offer care and support for terminally ill clients and families, including but not limited to, physical, psychosocial and spiritual care, as they desire
  • Provide knowledgeable staff in numbers sufficient to provide an appropriate level of care and frequency of visits in the home
  • Provide quality management through continuous evaluations of client care through review processes
  • Provide quality care by teaching and monitoring client’s response
  • Provide high-quality health care services in a cost-effective manner

For more information regarding Home Health services, please contact the department at (308) 324-8300.

Lexington Regional’s Home Health hours are 8:00 am — 4:30 pm, Monday — Friday.

Nurses may be reached after hours and on the weekends by calling the office at (308) 324-8300.