SALMON VNA Services

Enhancing your quality of life is our goal. We evaluate which healthcare services you or your loved one need and coordinate their delivery. Our team of caring and professional visiting nurses work closely with you, your family and your physician. We provide:

• Alzheimer’s care
• Chronic disease management and education, including cardiac disease, COPD, diabetes and asthma
• Case management
• Dementia care
• Enteral therapies
• Geriatric care
• Infusion therapy
• Medication reconciliation, management and education
• Nutrition guidance
• Oncological care
• Ostomy care and education
• Pain and symptom management
• Post-operative care
• Pulmonary care
• Stroke care and education
• Ventilator care
• Wound care

If you are pregnant or just had a baby, we can help. We care for women and children before and after childbirth with prenatal, postpartum, neonatal, infant and early childhood services provided by our highly trained and experienced nurses. Our services include:

• Breast feeding support and education
• Case management
• Early maternity discharge support
• Infant and early childhood services and education
• Newborn assessment and care
• Pediatric care
• Postpartum visits

In addition to our wide variety of on-site services, premium amenities and exceptional programming, The Willows provides scheduled transportation to shopping, banking, pharmacies, grocery stores and organized community and social events.

For patients with mental or psychiatric illness, we provide specialty nursing care that strives to improve functioning, enhance engagement in treatment and asses and monitor medication effectiveness and adherence.

• Care related to specific diagnoses, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and dementia with behavioral disturbances
• Case management
• Caregiver education
• Comprehensive mental health and nursing assessment
• Home safety assessment
• Medication administration and education
• Psychoeducation
• Symptom management

Our skilled physical, occupational and speech therapists can work to restore your physical function and help you live more safely and independently. Home therapy can include:

• Evaluation of adaptive equipment needs
• Fall prevention strategies
• Establishment of in-home exercise for general well-being
• Home safety assessments and environmental recommendations
• Pre- and post-joint replacement therapies
• Cognitive approaches for early and mid-stage dementia management
• Reversing weakness in the neck, trunk and limbs
• Caregiver education addressing aspects of physical and cognitive decline
• Treatments to accelerate recovery, such as phototherapy, ultrasound and electrical stimulation
• Safe swallowing strategies and exercises for people at risk for aspiration, weight loss or weakness related to physiological problems

Sometimes you need assistance with personal care, hygiene needs, exercises and meal preparation. Our certified home health aides help with:

• Bathing
• Eating
• Transferring
• Toileting
• Dressing
• Exercise assistance
• Light meal preparation

• Telehealth – Access daily, in-home monitoring that transmits a patient’s vital signs for analysis by trained clinicians in real-time, helping the person manage their care at home and promptly alerting our team to any changes in the patient’s condition.
• Fall Prevention Program – Get an assessment of any issues through a plan of care that enhances a person’s safety and independence at home. We use a multidisciplinary approach to determine a patients’ abilities and home environments.
• Palliative Care – We provide focused medical care for people living with a serious illness, working on providing relief from the symptoms and stress of the illness. The goal is to improve quality of life for both the patient and the family.
  This level of care is appropriate at any age and at any stage in a serious illness, and it can be provided along with curative treatment.
• At Risk Care Management – At SALMON, we focus on high level needs of our most vulnerable and challenged patients. The focus of the At Risk Manager is to ensure that any ancillary needs of the patient are met. This can be community needs, added agency support or wellness support. Whatever the need, our At Risk Case Manager is here to ensure our patients feel cared for.