Home healthcare is individualized care provided by nurses, therapists, or other skilled providers in the comfort of a patient’s own home. Patients can recover faster, surrounded by family and friends, under the continuing supervision of a physician. When a physician decides it's better for a patient to be in his or her own home during recovery, it’s time for home healthcare.

Anyone who is under a physician’s care and requires the services of a registered nurse and/or a physical therapist on a part-time, intermittent or even long-term basis may be eligible. Prior hospitalization is not necessary to qualify for home healthcare. We provide quality care that helps to reduce the stress that you or a caregiver may experience on a day-to-day basis. We can help you decide on the type of home care that best meets your needs.

The Home Care Network coordinates numerous aspects of patient care and offers a full range of homecare services including:

• Nursing
• Wound and Skin Specialists
• Physical Therapy
• Occupational Therapy
• Speech/Language Pathology
• Infusion Services
• Social Work
• Home Health Aides

If your physician or home care professional determines that you don’t require a nurse or therapist, RegionCare Nursing (a division of The Home Care Network ) can help you at home with aide services to assist with the following:

• bathing, dressing, personal care
• activity assistance
• preparing meals
• light housekeeping

If you should require a short-term hospital stay, North Shore-LIJ Staffing Services can provide private duty care at the hospital bedside.