Home Care
For over 25 years, Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana’s home care department has played a vital role in providing a full range of home health and clinical specialty programs to patients receiving treatment for a chronic or acute illness.
With care that includes registered dietitians, skilled nursing and physical therapy, the comprehensive team of home care specialists at Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical is able to provide full-service home treatment for issues such as:
- Cancer
- Congestive heart failure
- Myocardial infarction
- Hypertension
- Diabetes
- COPD
- Pneumonia
- Stroke
- Chronic wounds
- Orthopedic surgery (rehab)
- Post-surgical care
- Maternal/child health
Home care services at Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center can be initiated through referrals from:
- Physicians
- Hospitals
- Nursing facilities
- Residential care facilities
- Family members or friends
- Case managers
- Discharge planners
- Social workers
- Health plans
- Insurance companies
The multidisciplinary team of professionals and specialists are experienced in the care of patients who require unique home treatments. Our core team works in collaboration with a patient’s primary physician and includes:
- Registered nurses
- Certified home health aides
- Social workers
- Physical, occupational and speech therapists
- Registered dietitians
Our home care department embraces the San Fernando Valley community, providing a full-spectrum of home care services to everyone from new mothers and their babies to the elderly with chronic health problems. These services may include:
- Bedside prothrombin time monitoring
- Gastric feeding tube (G-Tube) for long-term enteral nutrition
- Injections
- IV therapy
- Ostomy management
- Patient assessment and monitoring
- Total parenteral nutrition
- Vacuum assisted closure (VAC) therapy used to promote healing of acute or chronic wounds, fight infection and enhance healing of burns
- Pain management
Specialty services
Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center also provides specialty home care services, including:
- Enterostomal therapy: Care for patients with non-healing or complicated wounds, use of wound VAC
- Cardiac team: Care for patients with congestive heart failure (CHF), myocardial infarction and post-op heart surgery. Care can include anticoagulation therapy
- Mother and baby: Follow-up, post-partum follow-up, bilirubin follow-up
- Pediatrics: Intravenous therapy, family teaching, G-Tube care