Home Health Care

Home Health Care in the Spokane Region

Regaining health following an accident, surgery, stroke, or chronic illness is often best accomplished in your own home. Sunshine provides the medical side of home care through our compassionate staff.

Sunshine Home Health believes that healing and well-being are best achieved when a patient’s familiar home lifestyle is maintained during treatment. At-home rehabilitation therapy is extremely beneficial because people are surrounded by family, friends, neighbors, and even pets; allowing their minds and bodies to focus on healing. Parents can get the help they need without it weighing on their children’s minds.

While in the comfort of the patient’s home, our nurses, therapists, and home health aides provide mom or dad with the specialized in-home health care and treatment they need. Some of the services that we provide include fall prevention; mobility and balance skills; diabetes management; wound care; medication management; IV infusion and tube feedings; cognitive and memory strategies; speech therapy and swallowing exercises; nutrition and diet education; community service connections; medical social work services.

Our local nurses are also available by phone 24 hours a day to answer questions or concerns. Secure technologies help us streamline our process so we can concentrate on the patient instead of paperwork

Sunshine Home Health can also serve as an intermediary between patients and their insurance companies to minimize any undue stress. Contact Sunshine Home Health to learn more about our home health services and how to get started on the path to healing and well-being without leaving your home.

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Specialty Home Health Programs

Firm Footing

Sunshine Home Health’s Firm Footing Program is focused on safe mobility and fall prevention and takes into account current mobility, vestibular impairments, and peripheral neuropathy. We assess every person for fall risk upon admission and immediately act on that fall risk is identified.

Firm Footing is an evidence-based treatment program, designed to help decrease a person’s fall risk. It utilizes tests and measures that have been associated with identifying fall risk and appropriate treatment measures. These results are used to develop a customized treatment program to meet the needs of each person. Patients go through a three-level exercise program and progress through these as indicated and tolerated, resulting in a unique program tailored for each person to address their specific deficits. Many Sunshine clinicians are specially trained in vestibular rehab and screen patients for vestibular impairments. Once identified, treatment is provided for this as well.

All patients are also screened for sensory changes due to peripheral neuropathy, which is very common and often related to chemotherapy, diabetes, or other conditions. Our very experienced physical and occupational therapy team implements the right assessment and treatment tools to improve balance, strength, and confidence to maximize function and minimize falls.

Medicare-Certified Home Health Care

Home health provides skilled care to help people regain health and mobility while they remain at home. Medicare Certified Home Health requires a prescription from a physician and is covered by a person’s medical insurance benefit. It is often called “Medicare Certified” even when a person is not of Medicare age because most insurance companies have the same guidelines as Medicare.

A person must need intermittent skilled nursing care, or therapy (physical therapy, occupational therapy, or speech therapy) to qualify for this benefit. Short-term bathing assistance and Social Services are also covered while a patient receives skilled nursing services. A person must be homebound, where it is a taxing effort to leave home and usually requires assistance. For more detailed information, see the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services site. Private duty, custodial care, companion care, and transportation are not covered by Medicare and most medical insurance plans.

There are many Home Care companies in Spokane County and navigating the path of covered services can be overwhelming. We can help. For more information about Home Care and/or Private Duty Care, please contact one of our transition or outreach coordinators at (509) 321-9050.

Acceptance to Service: This is updated as frequently as necessary to stay current with our status regarding our admission policies and capacity.

• Services offered at Sunshine Home Health Care: Nursing, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy*, Speech Therapy, Medical Social Work, Home Health Aide/Bathing* and Medical Nutrition Therapy
• Current status of new admissions: Admitting patients but limited availability due to high patient census and limited availability of clinical staff

• Patients we serve: Sunshine Home Health Care provides care for many different diagnoses and clinical presentations. Our patient population is generally adults, and our referrals come from hospitals, nursing facilities, provider offices, and congregate living facilities. We do not have clinicians who specialize in pediatric care. Acceptance of patients with patients with diagnoses that require specialized training is evaluated on a case-by-case basis. The following are some examples of specialized care we are/are not able to accommodate presently. Please note: All referrals are reviewed by the clinical leadership to ensure we can meet the needs of the patient and below is not an exhaustive list:
  • We provide wound care including sharp debridement, wound vacs, dressing changes, chronic and acute skin integrity issues.
  • We manage many skin and circulatory conditions but do not provide daily lymphedema wrapping
  • We are not currently able to accept patients with new tracheostomies.
  • We can and do assess for vestibular dysfunction but do not have therapists who specialize in treatment of vestibular dysfunction at present.
  • We provide care to many with Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia diagnoses but to not have specialization in mental health care.
  • We have clinical staff trained in treatment of neurological deficits such as Parkinson’s Disease, CVA, and Spinal Cord injuries but have limitations with new quadriplegic cases.
  • We provide a full range of post-operative care.
  • We do not accept patients with current or known recent drug use, with violent tendencies, or other conditions where the safety of the home care providers would be in jeopardy.
• Agency Policy regarding visit frequency: Sunshine Home Health Care does not provide daily visits for any discipline with limited exception. Our discipline frequencies range based on patient need, but daily needs of any particular discipline are best met in an inpatient setting. Exceptions to this are for very short duration and are approved by clinical leadership for specific cases such as short-term daily nursing in order to teach caregivers or daily PT for intensive training or crucial post-op care. When staffed for bathing visits, they are offered a frequency of 1time/week.
• Sunshine Home Health Care accepts patients who have insurance that we are contracted with to provide care. We also will provide care in private-pay situations. In all cases, patients must be under the care of a qualifying provider who orders and signs for the home health services rendered. (Qualified providers are: MD, DO, DPM, PA-C, and ARNP)

How Can We Help?

Each person is unique in their needs. We’d love to talk with you about how we can customize the care and treatment of you or a loved one. Please give us a call at the phone number below.

Sunshine Home Health
10410 E 9th Ave Bldg B
Spokane Valley, WA 99206
(509) 321-9050
Fax: (509) 924-3343

Additional Sunshine Services Include:

• Enhanced Assisted Living
• Rehabilitation — Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, and Speech Therapy
• Adult Family Homes 
• Memory Care — Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia Care
• Mental and Behavioral Health Care

Download the Sunsine Home Health Brochure (PDF)