Please call 1-800-842-8275 for referrals or information on Roanoke Home Care & Hospice. Ask to speak with the Referral Nurse.

Roanoke Home Care & Hospice (RHCH) is the home care agency of Martin-Tyrrell-Washington (MTW) District Health Department and is composed of a home health division, hospice division, and home care division. RHCH is licensed by North Carolina and accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Health Care, Inc. for delivery of skilled nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, in-home aide, medical social services and infusion nursing. Roanoke Home Care & Hospice maintains offices in Williamston, Plymouth, and Columbia to provide services in the district to the residents of our community.

Home Health describes services provided in the home setting to keep the patient functioning independently at home. This service is multidisciplinary and driven by the payor sources with multiple rules and regulations established both federally and locally. The following disciplines are usually offered: skilled nursing, medical-social services, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech language therapy, infusion nursing, and home health aide services. The services are usually offered after a hospitalization or after an acute episode of illness.

HOSPICE SERVICES

Hospice is a term used many centuries ago to designate a resting-place for the weary travelers. It is now a multidisciplinary system of caring for those patients and their families who are terminally ill. The focus of the Hospice service is on the patient’s quality of life and the support of his/her loved ones and not on the disease. Hospice services stress palliative care (relief of pain and symptoms) as opposed to curative care. Most of the time Hospice services are provided in a person’s home, but could be provided in any setting, such as a hospital or nursing home.

The Community Alternative Placement (CAP) In- Home Aides Services Program is a program funded by Medicaid that provides certain in-home and community based services to a limited number of individuals to help them stay in their homes instead of being admitted to skilled or intermediate care facilities. This program provides services by a waiver and therefore does not have to follow the standard Medicaid rules.

Homemaker Services are funded by the Home and Community Care Block Grant. The Area Agency on Aging determines the need for services and distributes and administers the monies. The in-home services are intended to support older adults and their unpaid primary caregivers in their preference to be cared for at home by improving/maintaining their physical and mental health status, enabling them to maintain/regain independent functioning, and providing relief to their caregivers.

The Personal Care Services (PCS) Program is primarily a Medicaid reimbursable service for the provision of assistance with activities of daily living in the home setting including toileting and ambulation and housekeeping and home management tasks such as meal preparation, linen changes, dusting, and sweeping.

INFUSION NURSING

Infusion Nursing is a service provided to patients who require infusion therapy in the home. Infusion therapy may be necessary for a variety of reasons including pain management, hydration, antibiotic therapy, total parental nutrition, or chemotherapy.