Home Health Care – Admissions Status

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 in some geographical regions 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 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. 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 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 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 1 time/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)