Compassionate Skilled Support in the Comfort of Home
Skilled home care provides short-term, intermittent medical care delivered directly in the comfort of a patient’s home. Designed for individuals recovering from acute, chronic, or disabling illness, this service allows patients to receive professional healthcare support while remaining in familiar surroundings.
Our coordinated, compassionate team focuses on maintaining independence at home. Care may include skilled nursing, rehabilitation therapies, and social services, all tailored to each patient’s needs.
What Is Skilled Home Care?
Skilled home care supports recovery when a patient needs professional medical care for an acute illness, injury, or hospitalization but can safely remain at home. Often used as a bridge between hospital and residential settings, it focuses on relieving symptoms, managing pain, rebuilding physical strength, and enhancing overall quality of life.
Skilled home care:
- Addresses specific medical and social needs
- Focuses on improving a patient’s condition, with the expectation that they will be discharged from service after recovery
- Differs from hospice care, which is advanced illness with the focus on comfort, not recovery
Who Is Skilled Home Care For?
Skilled home care is provided to patients with illnesses who need temporary medical support for a specific health issue.
This includes individuals who:
- Live with chronic or advanced illness (such as cancer, heart failure, COPD, or neurological diseases)
- Are recovering from major surgery
- Need medical monitoring, treatment, or rehabilitation to regain strength and stability
Care is tailored to the patient’s condition and goals, with services adjusted as recovery progresses.
What’s Involved in Skilled Home Care?
Skilled home care is delivered by an experienced clinical team with the goal of supporting recovery while minimizing disruption to daily life.
It may include:
- Medical Management: Coordination between skilled nurses and physicians to manage medications and treatment plans.
- Pain & Symptom Management: Personalized strategies to ease discomfort and improve daily living.
- Social Work & Care Planning: Guidance on navigating insurance, care transitions, and family needs.
- 24/7 Support: Around-the-clock on-call support to ensure peace of mind at all hours.
Eligibility & Coverage
To qualify for skilled home care, patients must:
- Be under the care of a physician with an established, regularly reviewed plan of care
- Be homebound, meaning leaving home requires considerable effort and assistance; any absences from home are infrequent or only last for a short time.
- Require skilled services, such as intermittent nursing care, physical therapy, speech-language pathology, or occupational therapy
The Connecticut Hospice works with Medicare and has contractual arrangements with most commercial insurance plans. Co-payments may apply. Our team can help you review coverage and next steps.
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A Comprehensive Approach
At The Connecticut Hospice, families and caregivers are an essential part of the care experience. That’s why we support patients and the people who love them together.
Care plans are shaped around shared goals, personal needs, and what matters most in daily life. Our interdisciplinary team works across settings and services to ensure care is coordinated, responsive, and attentive to the emotional, social, and spiritual well-being of everyone involved.
We help bring clarity and compassion to serious illness, so patients and loved ones can focus on the moments that matter most.
How Can We Help?
Make a Donation
As a local not-for-profit, The Connecticut Hospice relies on donor support to provide individualized services and therapies not fully covered by Medicare, Medicaid, or private insurance.
Your generosity helps ensure that every patient and family receives the care, comfort, and support they need, regardless of circumstances.