Home Health can bring a variety of specialized services into the home on a part-time, intermittent basis for the acutely ill, terminally ill or convalescing patients of all ages.

Services provided include: skilled nursing, physical, occupational and speech therapies,wound care, medical social work, personal care services, in-home IV therapy, 24 hour, 7-days-a-week emergency on call, medical supplies, assistance with arrangements for medical equipment.

Referrals and Cost

Requests for Home Health services can be made by: physicians, hospital and social workers, the patient, family members, friends, neighbors and other agencies.

When eligible, services are covered by most insurance providers.

The Pottsville Hospital and Warne Clinic is certified by Medicare and JCAHO as a provider of Home Health Services.

Choose a high quality home health provider

When selecting a home health agency for you or a loved one, it is important to consider scope of services, availability and quality measures.

Compare The Pottsville Hospital and Warne Clinic Home Health Department to other providers in our region or nationally by linking to the provided Medicare website. Click here for directions!

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For additional information, please call (570) 621-5050.

Recently, our Home Health Department was named to the HomeCare Elite.  A news release summarizing this accomplishment follows.

THE HOME HEALTH DEPARTMENT OF

THE POTTSVILLE HOSPITAL

AND WARNE CLINIC

RECEIVES NATIONAL RECOGNITION

(POTTSVILLE, PA)  - The Home Health Department of The Pottsville Hospital and Warne Clinic today announced that it has again been named to the HomeCare Elite, a compilation of the most successful home care providers in the country. This ground-breaking review names the Medicare-certified agencies whose performance measures in quality, improvement and financial performance are among the top 25% of providers nationwide. Additionally, the new 2007 HomeCare Elite indicates those providers ranked in the Top 100 and Top 500 of providers nationwide.

     “We applaud the success of all the providers named to the 2007 HomeCare Elite”, said Bill Bassett, Senior Director of Market Strategy at OCS, Inc. “Being noted as one of the top performers in the nation in this very competitive environment shows that the Home Health Department of The Pottsville Hospital and Warne Clinic is dedicated to quality and performance.”

     John E. Simodejka, Hospital President/Chief Executive Officer credits the Home Health Staff with the Department’s ability to rank as one of the HomeCare Elite. “We set very high standards for all services that we provide to our community.  “I am very pleased to join with our Board of Directors and Medical Staff to recognize the efforts of this department and equally pleased to see that we have such a favorable national ranking.”

     "As performance improvement, both clinical and financial, continues to be a critical metric for home care agencies, it’s wonderful that we now have an award that recognizes our industry’s highest achievers,” said Tonya Nevin, Executive Publisher of DecisionHealth.  We congratulate The Home Health Department of The Pottsville Hospital and Warne Clinic on being one of the top 25% best performing home care agencies in the country."

     The 2007 HomeCare Elite is the first performance recognition of its kind in the home health industry.  The 2007 HomeCare Elite is brought to the industry by OCS, Inc., the leading provider of healthcare informatics and DecisionHealth, publisher of home care’s most respected independent newsletter Home Health Line. The data used for this analysis was complied from publicly available information.  The entire list of the 2007 HomeCare Elite agencies can be viewed by visiting the OCS web site (www.ocsys.com).

About The Pottsville Hospital and Warne Clinic Home Health Department

Introduced in 1984, the Home Health Department of The Pottsville Hospital and Warne Clinic is accredited by the JCAHO and PA. Department of Health to provide services including Skilled Nursing, Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapies, Medical Social Work and Certified Home Health Aids, all in the privacy and comfort of a patient’s own home.

     The Department has treated approximately 15, 000 patients in its more than 20 year history.  Referrals can be made directly by patients, family members, physicians and other healthcare facilities.  Inquiries can be made by calling (570) 621-5050.  To learn more about The Pottsville Hospital and Warne Clinic, please visit www.pottsvillehospital.com.

About OCS, Inc.

OCS is a healthcare information company with the nation’s largest and most comprehensive set of measures spanning clinical outcomes, financial performance, resource utilization, patient satisfaction and operational indicators for Home Care, Hospice, and Private Duty programs. The OCS suite of products and services provide healthcare organizations the insight to improve the quality of care for their patients while enhancing the effectiveness of their organization. Serving the needs of healthcare organizations, vendors and consultants, OCS provider clients consistently rank in the top one-third of all healthcare organizations in the country.