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  • Range of Services

  • A team of skilled professionals and administrators provide specialized care within patients' homes under the direction of a physician. Services may include nursing care, rehabilitative therapy and assistance with personal care. Physicians often order home care after hospitalization or after a period of general mental instability. Not all home health agencies provide the same services.

  • The hospice philosophy maintains end-of-life care should emphasize quality of life. At its core is the belief each individual has the right to die pain-free with dignity, and families and friends should receive the necessary support to allow the individual to do so.

  • Rehabilitation, or rehab, therapy refers to the therapeutic, healing treatment that an Alacare Home Health patient receives after an illness or injury. The illness or injury could be cancer, a stroke or an injury following a fall. Alacare Home Health Therapists are specially trained and can assist patients in getting back to as full of a life as possible with the appropriate type of therapy.
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  • Related Services Information

  • Alacare Home Health & Hospice volunteers complete the circle of care that is extended to each Alacare homecare and hospice patient. Volunteers improve patients' quality of life by supplementing attention and companionship provided by Alacare medical staff. Additionally, Administrative Support Volunteers assist with clerical support duties in all branch locations throughout Alabama.

  • Home healthcare encompasses a wide range of medical care and assistance. A team of skilled professionals and administrators provide specialized care within patients' homes under the direction of a physician. Services may include nursing care, rehabilitative therapy and assistance with personal care. Physicians often order home care after hospitalization or after a period of general mental instability.

  • Alacare has taken steps to provide excellent customer service by enhancing its communication efforts. Alacare follows special requests, physician preferences, guidelines and parameters upon receipt of referrals. An experienced home health nurse is available, upon request, to provide in-home coordination of services for patients who have complex needs or require complex procedures.
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  • About Us

  • Alacare Home Health & Hospice is dedicated to providing patients with the highest level of skilled nursing, rehabilitative, palliative and hospice care available in the most cost-effective environment-the patient's own