Continuum of Care Provided
At Heartland, we are committed to meeting our patients and their families along every step of their healthcare journey and walking with them through their journey. To accomplish this, we provide a comprehensive continuum of care that seamlessly integrates Home Care, Home Health, Senior Living, and Hospice Care, allowing us to personalize care plans to meet individual needs and goals. Our holistic approach ensures that every person receives the right care, at the right time, in the right setting, tailored to their unique circumstances.
Homemaking & Personal Care
While they both provide care within the comfort of your home and often are grouped together; Home Health and Home Care services are not the same. Home Health offers skilled services delivered by professionals while Home Care focuses on non-skilled services.
Additionally, you have the flexibility to elect Home Care services without being required to have Home Health services and vice versa.
Homemaking provides Non-Skilled Services such as
- meal planning and preparation;
- laundry,
- light housekeeping, and
- shopping/errands
Personal Care provides Skilled Services such as
- bathing and personal care;
- personal grooming;
- safety supervision,
- assistance with transfers, turning, positioning;
- assist with walking and
- a therapeutic maintenance exercise program;
Respite Care
Respite care is defined as the transfer of primary caregiving responsibilities to another person. Often this person is a trusted professional caregiver, relative or friend who steps in to look after the patient to relieve the caregiver from their responsibilities temporarily. Respite care generally is used for a few hours at a time while the caregiver has other responsibilities outside of the home. Caregiver relief is a crucial part of ensuring the loved one is taken care of yet actively works to prevent burnout that can stem from taking on the responsibility of becoming a primary caregiver.
Companionship
Companionship provides emotional, mental, and physical support to encourage overall wellbeing through friendship and socialization often achieved through:
- Conversations
- Playing games or listening to music
- Light activity such as taking a walk or sitting outside
- Time spent over a meal together
Safety / Dementia Supervision
We are dedicated to preserving and improving the happiness and independence of seniors living within the comfort of their own home. To enable them to do this, we understand that there are safety measures that often need to be taken. At Heartland, we take a holistic and interdisciplinary approach to each patient’s specific needs to create individualized care plans to meet care needs and goals within the home. Our care goes beyond the patient with ensuring caregivers & family members feel supported through their caregiving journey as well.
Nursing
Home Care nursing and Home Health skilled nursing work hand in hand to provide care and services within your home. Home Care Nursing services can include:
- check respiratory status
- check blood pressure, temperature, pulse
- medication set up and medication management
- monitor nutritional and hydration status
- diabetic teaching
- wound care & dressing changes
- bowel and bladder management
- pre and post op care
- draw blood samples
Some signs that it may be time to seek Home Care include:
- If you or a family member have concerns about being able to safely stay in your home
- After a hospital/nursing home stay, or following a surgery
- Difficulty walking
- Medication Management
- After a fall
- A significant change in your health
Skilled Nursing
Skilled Nursing includes the following services are available under Skilled Nursing and are provided within the comfort of your home:
- check respiratory status
- check blood pressure, temperature, pulse
- medication set up and medication management
- catheter care
- monitor nutritional and hydration status
- diabetic teaching
- wound care & dressing changes
- bowel and bladder management
- pre and post op care
- IV therapy
- draw blood samples
- colostomy / ileostomy care
Some signs that it may be time to seek Home Health include:
- If you or a family member have concerns about being able to safely stay in your home
- After a hospital/nursing home stay, or following a surgery
- Difficulty walking
- Medication Management
- After a fall
- A significant change in your health
Physical Therapy
Physical Therapy – includes the following services provided within your private home: home safety assessment; therapeutic exercise for flexibility and strength as well as home exercise instruction; range of motion exercise (ROM); fall prevention; gait training (walking); balance training; stair & transfer training; modalities for pain relief
Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy often work together to return patients of all ages and abilities to their optimal level of function. However, physical therapy focuses mainly on movement while occupational therapy focuses on returning to activities of daily living (ADLs.) Both occupations work closely with patients and their families to identify personalized goals, develop a plan to achieve those goals.
Home based physical therapy is used to treat many different conditions. This may include but is not limited to:
- fall prevention and treatment following a fall
- assist in recovery from and prevention of injuries both pre and post surgeries
- pain from a variety of conditions
- weakness or difficulty walking following hospitalization
- treatment of neurological disorders such as Parkinson's, Multiple Sclerosis, and Strokes
- chronic conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, obesity, cancer and a variety of chronic illness
The goals for physical therapy in the home can range from:
- returning to safe mobility both inside and around your home
- returning independence in living within your own home
- fall prevention
- relieving pain
Speech Therapy
Speech Therapy for adults involves assessing and treating swallowing issues, communication, cognition (thinking and understanding), and language and speech disorders.
With home health care speech therapy, the therapist can help you recover after an accident, surgery, or acute or chronic illness. You will also learn healthy lifestyle tips and exercises you can do on your own to think, communicate, and eat or drink more effectively.
TYPES OF CONDITIONS TREATED
Home based speech therapy can be used to treat a wide variety of conditions. If you've had a stroke, certain types of cancer, dementia, a brain injury or neurological condition, you may benefit from exercises to re-learn skills so you can stay independent at home. With home care speech therapy, we often treat patients with:
- Inability to talk or communicate
- Parkinson's disease
- Difficulty swallowing (dysphagia) or chewing, often a result of stroke, progressive neurological conditions such as Parkinson's, MS, head and neck cancer, or pneumonia
- Difficulty finding the right words or using or understanding language, or halting or unclear speech (aphasia or other communication disorders, often related to stroke or brain disorder)
- Using words out of order or trouble forming words (apraxia, often due to stroke)
- Slow, slurred or difficult to understand speech (dysarthria, often related to Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, stroke)
- Weakened vocal cords and/or larynx muscles
- Alzheimer's disease/dementia and related attention, memory, and problem-solving challenges
- Difficulty speaking, often caused by stroke or brain injury
- Articulation disorders, or the inability to form certain words
- Expressive and receptive language disorders often related to head injury or medical conditions
- Cognitive-communication disorders, often related to brain injury, stroke, or a neurological condition
Occupational Therapy
Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy often work together to return patients of all ages and abilities to their optimal level of function. However, occupational therapy focuses mainly on returning you to activities of daily living (ADLs) while physical therapy focuses more on movement. Both occupations work closely with patients and their families to identify personalized goals, develop a plan to achieve those goals.
Home based occupational therapy is used to treat many different conditions which can include:
- assistance finding equipment to allow for independent bathing, toileting, and ambulation
- assist in recovery from and prevention of injuries both pre and post surgeries
- pain from a variety of conditions
The main goals for occupational therapy in the home generally includes:
- returning to safe mobility both inside and around your home
- returning independence in living within your own home
- relieving pain
Personal Care & Homemaking
While they both provide care within the comfort of your home and often are grouped together; Home Health and Home Care services are not the same. Home Health offers skilled services delivered by professionals while Home Care focuses on non-skilled services.
Additionally, you have the flexibility to elect Home Care services without being required to have Home Health services and vice versa.
Homemaking Services provide Non-Skilled Services such as
- meal planning and preparation
- laundry
- light housekeeping
- shopping/errands
Personal Care Service provide Skilled Services such as
- bathing and personal care
- personal grooming
- safety supervision
- assistance with transfers, turning, positioning
- assist with walking
- a therapeutic maintenance exercise program
Medical
Through the dedicated effort of our Hospice Medical Director, Nurses and Aides, we focus on providing excellent comfort care along the end-of-life journey within the safety and comfort of your private home, wherever that may be. In providing comfort care at Heartland Hospice, we are striving to encourage physical well-being as we approach end-of-life. This is achieved through medication management and monitoring vital signs.
Social
Social care provided is a result of a combination of all disciplines including Social Work, Spiritual Counseling, Bereavement Support, and trained community Volunteers. The focus within social care is to provide companionship and encourage mental well-being. We achieve this through conversation and connection focused communication as well as quality time spent together.
Spiritual
We understand that every person’s spiritual journey and beliefs are specific to them and we meet the patient and their family wherever they are on their spiritual journey. Whether that leans more towards religious than not or vice versa, our spiritual care focuses on providing a comfortable spiritual presence during the end-of-life tailored to personal beliefs.
Family
Our passionate and dedicated Hospice team does not only focus on the care and comfort of the patients we serve, but also focus on ensuring family members and caregivers feel supported through their grief journey as well. Losing a loved one can be a life-changing and unimaginably hard experience to go through and we at Heartland want to walk beside you on this journey. To do this, we offer social, spiritual, and bereavement support prior to the passing of your loved one as well as support extending 13 months following their passing. This support includes conversations, assistance with planning and preparation of funeral arrangements, as well as a Living Through Loss Group that is available to Heartland families wherever they are along their grief journey.
Quality of Life
When choosing Hospice care it does not mean giving up hope, rather it means redefining hope to focus on having the best possible quality of life during the remaining time. At Heartland Hospice we do this by not only offering numerous interdisciplinary services but by truly providing those services to the patients we serve as well as their family members and caregivers. It is a team approach like no other that’s main goal is ensuring the remaining time is spent making the best out of every day.
Companionship
Companionship provides emotional, mental, and physical support to encourage overall wellbeing through friendship and socialization often achieved through:
- Conversations
- Playing games or listening to music
- Light activity such as taking a walk or sitting outside
- Time spent over a meal together
Support
Our motto is “From Our Hearts to Your Home” and for us, that is more than a saying, it is who we are at our core. We understand that the transition to a new home environment can be challenging. Our team is happy to work with you throughout the transition. Each of our residents are treated with respect, dignity and compassion.
Connection
In everything we do, we are striving and designing it to bring together residents, families, volunteers, and caregivers. We strive to turn each day into a day “lived well”. Guests are encouraged to join us on outings around town and in the local area. Shopping and outdoor excursions around the Black Hills are enjoyed by residents and guests alike. Even when loved ones cannot be present, our residents enjoy the family atmosphere and community spirit.
Activities
To engage residents and promote relationships, we provide a robust social calendar. We encourage each resident to take advantage of the many activities offered such as:
- Exercise Classes
- Bible Study & Devotions
- Community Outings
- Card Games
- Board Games
- Bingo
- Happy Hours
- Coffee Socials
Community
Our community proudly provides features and amenities such as:
- Covered patios and courtyard
- Beauty Salon / Barber Shop
- Numerous Living and Gathering Areas
- Excellent Nutrition Programs
- Countless Safety Prevention Measures for fire, accessibility, and emergency procedures