Health at Home

Your own home is the most comfortable place to be. As medical care changes, having the best care at home is more important than ever. As hospital stays become shorter and shorter, more technical and skilled medical procedures are being done in the home. Amberwell Health at Home staff is highly trained to meet your needs; they are compassionate and often feel like one of the family.

Wherever you are hospitalized, be sure to ask for Amberwell Health at Home when you come back home to Atchison.

Home health services often include:

• Wound and ostomy care.
• IV management and administration.
• Lab draws in the home
• Full rehabilitation services, Physical therapist, Occupational therapist and Speech therapist.
• Medical Social Work to help with life planning.
• Personal attendant care for bathing.
• 24/7 on call Nurse
• Local staff able to respond quickly to your needs and an active part of the community

Hospice Services

When curative treatments are no longer helpful and recovery is not possible, Amberwell Health at Home will provide comfort care wherever the patient’s home may be. Under the direction of the patient’s physician, the hospice team will do everything possible to alleviate pain and discomfort. The focus of care is to enable the patient to live every day as well as possible.

The hospice team includes the patient, caregivers, physician, nurses, nurse aides, a social worker, a chaplain, and trained hospice volunteers. We all work together to alleviate whatever form of suffering the patient is experiencing: physical, emotional, or spiritual. It is a great comfort for our patients and their families that nurses are available locally to respond quickly to any concern that arises at any time of the night or day. Hospice philosophy has been summarized this way by Dame Cicely Saunders, founder of the modern hospice movement: “You matter to the last moment of your life, and we will do all we can, not only to help you die peacefully, but to live until you die.”