Homebound Health Services
Remember it is your choice… your health…your agency!
Pointe Coupee Homebound Health has been serving the citizens of Pointe Coupee, as well as parts of Iberville, West Baton Rouge, West Feliciana and Avoyelles parishes for over 35 years. We have a proven record of success. Pointe Coupee Homebound Health has also been named as a recipient of the 2023 HHCAHPS Honors Elite, a prestigious award recognizing home health agencies that continuously provide quality care as measured from the patient’s point of view.
Our staff is highly professional and provides service above and beyond what is required. Pointe Coupee Homebound Health Services provides Nursing Care, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy, Medical Social Worker services, and Home Health Aide services for patients with a wide variety of illnesses and conditions.
If your doctor or health care professional tells you that you need home care, don’t come home without us!
SERVICES PROVIDED:
Wound care including management of negative pressure devices
IV therapy
Advanced Illness Management Program
Epidural pain pump management
Chronic and acute disease management for diabetes, CHF, COPD, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and others
Monitoring of PT/INR in the home for patients on “blood thinners”
After surgery care: including use of specific joint replacement protocols and heart surgery protocols
Medication management, injection administration teaching
Low vision education
Vestibular rehabilitation
Dementia care
Fall prevention
VitalStim therapy
YOU MAY NEED HOME HEALTH CARE IF YOU ARE CONSIDERED HOMEBOUND AND YOU ARE:
Frequently hospitalized or visiting the emergency room
Taking multiple medications with frequent medication changes
Forgetting to take medications and/or injections or need instructions on administering your own injections
Having a decline in personal hygiene, including trouble dressing or bathing
Recently home from the hospital or nursing home
Experiencing a notable weight loss
Recently diagnosed with a new condition or illness
Experiencing unstable vital signs, such as an uncontrolled blood pressure
Experiencing a problem with low vision
Having a joint replaced or heart surgery
In need of wound care
Hospice Services
Loving care at home when you need it most.
Pointe Coupee Hospice has been in operation since 2001 and offers our most experienced nursing team for pain management and symptom control. Hospice offers a team approach to manage a patient’s medical, emotional, and spiritual needs. Care is patient and family centered to meet individual needs. Our hospice team believes that every person has a right to dignified and pain-free end-of-life. We work closely with our hospice physician, Dr. Ashley Bordelon, as well as your primary care or specialty physician to manage symptoms. Medical social work, chaplain, and volunteer services are hospice care components that help to support patients and families emotionally, spiritually, and socially. Hospice care can also include many of the other home health services that you are familiar with such as physical, speech & occupational therapy.
Hospice care is most often provided where the patient lives, whether in their own home, the home of a family member, a nursing home or assisted living facility. Inpatient hospice care in the hospital can also be provided if most appropriate.
Our team provides comforting and compassionate care to patients and their families with a goal of enhancing quality of life at a time when every moment shared and memory made is most precious.
We have a proven record of success. Pointe Coupee Hospice has also been named a 2021 Hospice CAHPS Honors Elite recipient, a prestigious award recognizing hospice agencies that continuously provide quality care as measured from the patient’s point of view.
SERVICES PROVIDED:
Skilled visits from our licensed hospice team members
Home medical equipment
Medication and supplies
Respite care
Spiritual support
Hospice aides to help with personal care
Education, support, and guidance for caregivers and families
Pain and symptom management
We Honor Veterans program
Grief support
24/7 availability
OUR HOSPICE TEAM:
Patient and family
Primary care physician
Hospice medical director
Nurse practitioner
Registered nurses
Licensed practical nurses
Hospice aides (CNAs)
Social worker
Chaplain
Volunteers
Speech therapists
Occupational therapist
Physical therapist
Registered dietitian
Pointe Coupee Nutrition Program
A healthier you, day by day.
People who eat a healthy diet live longer and are at lower risk for serious health problems such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and obesity. For people with chronic diseases, healthy eating can help manage these conditions and prevent complications.
The Pointe Coupee Nutrition Program provides a complete education/training experience based on the needs of the patient and the recommendations of the physician. This program is a free service. The Pointe Coupee Nutrition Program has a Registered and Licensed Nutritionist and Certified Diabetes Educator available by appointment.
MEDICAL NUTRITION THERAPY SERVICES PROVIDED:
Chronic disease
Diabetes
Renal impairment
Heart disease
Weight management for adults and pediatrics
High blood pressure
Abnormal blood lipids
Poor eating habits
Pregnancy nutrition counseling
Gastrointestinal conditions
Diabetes education
Nutritionist
Melissa Guillory, RDN, LDN
Certified Diabetes Educator
Jeanene Thibaut, RN, CDE
Health Services Foundation
Your support matters
Established in 2008 to assist residents in our parish with health issues and resource development, this foundation has four funds established to help us reach our goals.