Avera St. Luke’s Home Health - Recovering in the Home

Recovery at home from illness, surgery or injury or using home-based hospice services are increasingly popular and effective aspects of contemporary health care. At Avera St. Luke’s, we fully support the idea that in many cases, for many people, home care is the best care.

Our Home Health Services offer a broad range of health care and support services to people of all ages in the comfort of their own homes. Besides providing direct patient care, Home Health professionals can teach families what they need to know so they can properly care for a family member at home.

• Provide continuity of care from hospital to home
• Shorten hospital stays or prevent hospitalization
• Expedite recovery and return to regular activities of daily living
• Reduce the cost of illness
• Collaborate with other community agencies to facilitate providing skilled care in the home

Avera St. Luke’s Home Health is the recipient of the 2008 South Dakota Quality Award for Excellence in Home Care, the top honor in the statewide award program. The award acknowledges professional accomplishments in quality improvement and active collaboration to improve home health care in the state.

The patients served by Avera St. Luke’s Home Health gave such high scores on recent surveys that the organization received a 99 percent ranking for overall satisfaction, an all-time high for the department.