Good Samaritan Society - Eugene Home Health

Home care services from the Good Samaritan Society help clients remain in their homes as long as possible. Home care assistance promotes health and independence for people of all ages while offering support and respite for their loved ones.

Staff members include registered nurses, certified nursing assistants and rehabilitation therapists.

Professional in-home skilled nursing services can include:

• Medical assessment
• Wound care
• Medication education
• IV therapy
• Pain management
• Rehabilitation
• Diabetes management
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• Maternal/infant visits

 Supportive in-home services include help with daily tasks such as:

• Meal preparation
• Medication reminders
• Laundry
• Light housekeeping
• Bathing
• Dressing

In-home care services

These non-medical support services are provided when you are ill or require assistance in your daily activities to be able to remain in your home.

• Bathing, grooming and dressing

• Simple meal preparation

• Medication reminders

• Light housekeeping and laundry

• Shopping
• Transportation
• Limited respite care

Skilled nursing care

Registered nurses coordinate all of our home care services. After an initial assessment, they provide skilled assessments and teach disease management and self-care.

• On-call nurses available 24 hours a day

• Diabetic teaching and management

• Wound care
• Colostomy and catheter care
• Injections

• Vital signs checks

• Blood draws for lab tests
• IV therapy

• Anticoagulation monitoring

• Medication management

• Management and evaluation of plan of care

• Consultation and family support