Services

In-home Care:

At Abraham Healthcare we provide professional and dependable in-home services in the state of Maryland. The services include: 

 

Personal Care

Skilled Nursing

Respite Care

Live-in care

Companionship

Private Duty Nursing

Attendant       Care

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Personal Care:

Personal care service means a service that an individual would normally perform personally, but for which the individual needs physical assistance because of advanced age, infirmity, or physical or mental limitation. They are non-medical services that extend the ability of people to live in their own homes. These services are provided by our experienced caregivers under the supervision of the Registered Nurse. Abraham Healthcare offers the following personal care services: 

1. Assistance with one or more activities of daily living  
2. Delegated nursing functions, such as assistance with or administration of medications   
3. Ambulation, such as assisting consumer to move about independently, transfers consumer from chair to bed, chair to toilet, and from bed to chair. 
4. Perform the following additional services which are directly related to our consumer’s medical need and are essential to their health and comfort in the home:

   • Light housekeeping and home management, 
   • Plan and prepare meal according to our consumer’s need,  
   • Feed our consumer who is incapable of self-feeding,  
   • Accompanying the consumer to clinics, physician offices, or other trips which are made for the purpose of obtaining medical diagnosis or treatment,  
   • Shopping for groceries or household item required specifically for the consumer’s health and maintenance.
Personal hygiene and grooming, such as assistance with:
• Bathing of patient, including bed bath or shower,
• Skin, hair, mouth and dentures care,
• Dressing and changing briefs, 
• Toileting, including going to and from and the use of commode  

 

    

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Attendant Care:

Attendant care services means hand-on assistance specific to the functional needs of a consumer with a physical disability and includes assistance with activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living. Attendant care is a living at home waiver program and services includes assistance with:

1. Bathing and personal hygiene routines,
2. Toileting, including bladder and bowel requirements, bed pan routines, incontinence care, and movement to and from the bathroom,
3. Mobility, including transferring from a bed, chair, or other structure and moving about indoors or outdoors,
4. Moving, turning, and positioning the body while in bed or in a wheelchair,
5. Eating, nutritional planning, and preparing meals including prescribed special diets,
6. Dressing and changing clothes,
7. Medications or other remedies that are ordinarily self-administered, when ordered for the consumer by a physician

8. Instrumental activities of daily living which includes:   

   • Preparing a light meal,
   • Perfoming light chores,
   • Shopping for groceries,
   • Traveling beyong a walking distance,
   • Reading of specific items, and
   • Planning and making decisions

 

 

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Respite Care:

Respite care provides short-term supportive care to an individual when the primary caregiver is unavailable due to a planned temporary absence, unexpected illness, emergencies or need some rest and relief. Abraham Healthcare can provide capable caregivers that can assist for as little as a few hours to long weeks of vacation. At Abraham Healthcare Services, respite care are:

1. Provided to consumers who are, due to physical or cognitive impairments, are unable to care for themselves;
2. Furnished on a short-term basis because of the absence or need for relief of a family member or individual normally providing the the care;
3. Provide a period of rest and renewal for the family member or other caregiver;
4. Provided at planned intervals, in a time of crisis, as needed;
5. Provided in the consumer's home or place of residence, or an assisted living facility.

Services offered includes:

1. Supervising a cognitively impaired consumer to asssure their health and safety; and
2. Assisting a functionally impaired consumer to perform activities of the daily living.

 

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Live-in care:

In some cases, your loved ones need constant care and supervision. We encourage you to consider having a live-in caregiver over putting your loved one in a nursing home or Assisted Living facility. Live-in care is when a caregiver resides with the client to service all of the client’s needs on a daily basis. Our caregivers  adjust to the clients’ need and schedule to provide the highest level of care needed. It is highly speculated that loved ones cared for at the home live much longer and happier than those cared for in nursing facilities. Our live-in caregivers become part of the family and render support throughout the course of each day. Live-in care services offered includes: 

1. Personal care, to include: bathing, showering, dressing, toileting etc.
2. Medication reminder/assistance
3. Assistance with mobility
4. Shopping and errands
5. Preparing and cooking of meals & snacks
6. Laundry/linen change

 

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Companion Care:

A companion care service consists of non-medical care, supervision, and socialization activities provided on a one-on-one basis to an adult or children. All that is needed sometimes is a care and company. In most situations, having another individual in the house with your loved ones gives you the added assurance you need in case of an emergency. All of our companions are experienced, trained, CPR and First Aid certified. Services Offered includes:

1. Companionship and safety supervision; includes accompanying consumer on walks, accompany to restaurants, stand-by bathing assistance,
2. Conversation- cognitive stimulation, includes playing games or cards, read aloud from books/periodicals, help with hobbies/crafts with the consumer, 
3. Medication reminders,
4. Meal preparation, includes planning of meals, monitoring diet, and serving meals to consumer,
5. Shopping and errands; includes picking up meals,  pick up/drop off dry cleaning, and bringing in mail,
6. Light housekeeping; includes making of bed,  mopping and sweeping, dusting, vacuuming floors, washing and arranging dishes, laundry and linens changes, kitchen and bathroom cleanups, garbage disposal. 
7. Assist with grooming & dressing.

 

 

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Skilled Nursing:

We provide skilled nursing services, within defined scope of practice, to consumers based on the initial nursing assessment and the care plan develop by the registered nurse. Skilled Nursing Care is provided for patients who require intensive medical support following an illness or accident. Abraham Healthcare offers the following skilled nursing services:

1. Nursing Assessments
2. Nurse monitoring
3. Wound Care and Management
4. IV Therapy
5. Catheter Care and Training
6. Diabetic Care and Education
7. Cardiac Care and Restorative Functioning

 

 

 

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Private Duty Nursing:

Private Duty Nursing  is the provision of skilled nursing care in the home by a Registered Nurse or a Licensed Practical Nurse. The purpose of private duty nursing is to assess, monitor and provide skilled nursing care in the home on an hourly basis; to assist in the transition of care from a more acute setting to home; and to teach competent caregivers the assumption of this care when the condition of the member is stabilized.

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Referral Process:

To make a refer you can do any of the following:

• Request for a referral form, complete it and fax it to our agency on 410-254-3005.
• Call the office between 9am – 5pm, Monday through Friday to make a phone referral on 410 254 3004 or 410 705 8154.
• Call to request for a packet or a for a representative on 410-254-3004
• Request Information on our website: www.abrahamhealth.com or E-Mail Us at info@abrahamhealth.com

 

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Who do we serve ?:

We provide in-home care and assistance to:

• Senior citizens,
• Older Adults with physical disabilities, infirmity, or physical or mental limitation.
• Young adults with disabilities, infirmity or physical or mental limitation.
• Children with acute illness, infirmity or physical limitation

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Who can refer ?:

At Abraham Healthcare, the following can refer patients to our service: 

• Individuals,
• Family Members,
• Department of Social Services Case managers,
• Department of Aging - waiver Case managers,
• Nursing homes social workers
• Physicians,
• Other Service providers, and
• Other Healthcare facilities.

Abraham Healthcare responds to all referrals within 24 hours of receipt and has a registered nurse on call.

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How do you pay?:

We accept individuals with: 

• Medicaid [Waiver for Older Adult & Living at Home Waiver],
• Some Private Insurance
• Private Pay and,
• we offer sliding scale fee for Individuals with no medical insurance.

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