Specialty & Skilled Nursing Programs

With our specialty and skilled nursing programs, we can help patients who are living with chronic illnesses and mental health conditions as well as those who are temporarily recovering from a recent surgery or illness. These skilled nursing services, like all of our home care services, are available to patients living in the St. Louis area who have had services prescribed to them by their primary care physician, nurse, psychiatrist, or other medical care provider. Our skilled nursing services include, but are not limited to psychiatric mental health nursing, enterostomal therapy, and home infusion services.

To learn more about our skilled nursing services for you or a loved one who needs assistance in treating a chronic or long term illness or recovering from a recent surgery, injury, or disease, please contact our home healthcare agency. As an experience home health agency in the St. Louis area, we can work with you and your physician to determine which of our specialty and skilled nursing programs are best for the treatment and management of you or your loved ones physical and mental health.

Our Homecare Skilled Nursing Programs

Psychiatric & Mental Health Skilled Nursing Program

With mental health nursing services, our skilled nurses can address and treat the mental health needs of home care patients by offering assessment, diagnosis, and treatment services for individuals suffering from mental illnesses, psychological disorders, and other types of emotional or mental distress. At IDEAL Home Health Care, we specialize in providing skilled nursing care for elderly patients with our geropsychiatric programs. These specialty and skilled nursing programs are ideal for patients and their caregivers who require temporary treatment or education for an acute episode or the recent exacerbation of a mental illness.

Enterostomal Therapy Skilled Nursing Programs

Enterostomal therapy is a type of skilled nursing that specializes in providing wound care, ostomy care, and continence care. Specifically, these skilled nurses specialize in the management and treatment of patients with urinary and fecal diversions, draining wounds and fistuals, fecal and urinary incontinence, and chronic wounds. This skilled nursing service is ideal for patients who are older or those who suffer from multiple chronic diseases. It is also an important skilled nursing service for patients who have recently undergone or will be undergoing fecal or urinary diversions as nurses can provide counseling, education, and treatment for these patients.

Infusion Therapy Skill Nursing Programs

Home infusion services are intended to assist, educate, and treat individuals who require the administration of medication or nutrients through a needle or catheter. With this skilled nursing program, nurses can treat a variety of short term conditions or help patients cope with long term and chronic illnesses. In addition to the actual administration of IV infusion therapy, this skilled nursing service assists patients by providing important information, teaching patients or their family members how to administer IV medications, and managing a patient's infusion treatment program and supplies.

Learn More About Our Skilled Nursing Programs

If you would like to learn more about any of our specialty or skilled nursing programs or you are interested in our skill nursing programs for you or a loved one, please contact our home healthcare agency today!