Adult Nursing Services

Adventist Home Health provides skilled intermittent home health care services to adults. One of our most important goals is to help patients and their families become independent in their plan of care.

Program Goals

• Increasing patient and caregiver knowledge of the disease and recovery process
• Ensuring that the patient and caregiver comply with the medication regimen and rehabilitation program
• Assisting hospitals and physicians in decreasing a patient's length of stay
• Decreasing the incidence of a patient's hospitalization and need for emergency care

Commonly Treated Conditions

• Diabetes mellitus
• Coronary artery disease (CAD)
• Congestive heart failure (CHF)
• Chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD)
• Decubitus care
• Post-surgical wound care
• Ostomy care
• Feeding tubes
• Indwelling urinary catheters

Adult Nursing Services

• Assessment of cardiac and respiratory complications
• Care of and instruction in the management of surgical and non-surgical wounds
• Care of and instruction in diabetes management
• Administration and instruction in managing subcutaneous or intramuscular medication
• Instruction regarding the patient's medication regimen
• Insertion of and instruction in using urinary catheters
• Insertion of and instruction in using feeding tubes and equipment
• Instruction in oxygen administration and safety

Our Service Area

Montgomery, Prince George's, St. Mary's, Charles and Calvert counties of Maryland.