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Services

Licensed nurses and aides provide all patient care throughout The Aspen Group service areas. Staff members assess and monitor the patient's health-care needs, educate patients and caregivers and collaborate with attending physicians to promote continuity of care.

Basic skilled nursing services may include:

  • Assessment
  • Disease state management teaching
  • Injections
  • Urinary catheter insertion/maintenance
  • Wound care management
  • Parenteral feedings and care
  • Infusion therapy

Admission Services
An Admissions Coordinator:

  • Processes home health referrals quickly and conveniently
  • Assesses each patient's needs
  • Collaborates with branch office and physicians to address patient's needs
  • Identifies patients with complex diagnoses and recognizes the need for specialty services

Additional functions of Admission Services include:

  • Providing staff consultation on home health-care orders
  • Delivering necessary forms to physician offices
  • Providing homecare evaluations prior to hospital discharge or in a physician's office for select cases
  • Providing patient summaries, including orders, medications, changes in plan of care, and progress notes
  • Submitting claims directly to third-party payors as allowed under current law

Contact Information:
E-mail: Contact via email
Phone: 208-529-0800

Diabetes Education
A Certified Nurse:

  • Provides consultations and education with patients, caregivers, staff, and physicians
  • Assists the primary nurse with ongoing diabetic instruction and care

Contact Information:
E-mail: Contact via email
Phone: 208-529-0800

Enterostomal Therapy/Wound Care
A Certified Enterostomal Care Nurse:

  • Assesses patients' gastrointestinal, genitourinary and integumentary disorders that may include:

    • Stomas/Fistulas
    • Vascular ulcers
    • Pressure ulcers
    • Draining wounds
    • Ulcers
    • Injuries
  • Provides direct patient care
  • Provides consultation and education for the patient's primary caregiver and additional nursing staff
 

Contact Information:
E-mail: Contact via email
Phone: 208-529-0800

Home Care Aides
The Aspen Group home care aides are certified medical professionals. Aides ensure patient care is provided in the safest and most healthful environment possible. It is important patients, family members, caregivers, and physicians understand what home care aides may and may not do.

Supervised by a Registered Nurse, an Aspen Group Aide:

  • Assists patients with personal care and hygiene services (oral hygiene, bathing or linen changes)
  • Provides personal grooming (hair, nail and foot care)
  • Provides limited housekeeping services

Contact Information:
E-mail: Contact via email
Phone: 208-529-0800

Hospice
A Hospice Nurse:

  • Strives to enhance the patient's quality of life
  • Collaborates with a hospice medical director and an interdisciplinary team of professionals
  • Ensures safety, comfort and dignity for hospice patients in their homes
  • Education and support services also are offered for individuals affected by loss.

Contact Information:
E-mail: Contact via email
Phone: 208-529-0800
For additional information on hospice care, visit The Aspen Group's hospice page.

Medical Nutrition Therapy
A Registered Dietitian:

  • Consults with patient caregivers and The Aspen Group staff regarding nutritional needs
  • Evaluates patients' risks of nutritional deficiencies, hydration needs and parenteral, enteral and oral intake supplementation needs
  • Forms dietary plans and educates patients to maintain these plans to achieve maximum nutritional benefits
  • Participates in ongoing consultation and evaluation as needed
  • Modifies dietary plans in accordance with special needs (IV or tube or enteral feeding)
  • Enteral feeding provides the nutritional requirements through a tube into the stomach or small intestine.

Physicians requesting such services for a patient are expected to see the patient within 30 days prior to the initial home care certification.

Qualifying Criteria for Treatment
The geriatric patient must:

  1. Have a permanent, non-function or disease that permits food from reaching the small bowel or small bowel disease that interferes with the digestion and absorption of an oral diet; and
  2. Require tube feedings in order to receive the sufficient nutrients to maintain weight and strength adequate for the patient's overall health status.

Coverage
Medicare covers administration, supplies, the necessary nutrients and equipment if coverage requirements for enteral nutrition are met.

Contact Information:
E-mail: Contact via email
Phone: 208-529-0800

Medical Social Services
A Licensed Medical Social Worker:

  • Evaluates social, emotional, familial, financial, and environmental settings that affect the patient's plan of care
  • Assists family or caregivers through a variety of services
  • Provides patient and family counseling
  • Secures appropriate community resources, long-term planning and crisis intervention for patients and families

Contact Information:
E-mail: Contact via email
Phone: 208-529-0800

Mental Health Nursing
A Credentialed Mental Health Nurse:

  • Provides in-depth assessments of a patient's mental status
  • Assists caregivers in coping with behavioral issues and stress that may influence patient attitude and behavior
  • Follows the prescribed treatment plan and educates the patient on the plan
  • Monitors the patient's compliance with medication regimen
  • Evaluates the effectiveness of psychopharmacology
  • Aims to facilitate the patient's recovery process and avoid hospitalization

Contact Information:
E-mail: Contact via email
Phone: 208-529-0800

Occupational Therapy
A Registered Occupational Therapist:

  • Focuses on rehabilitative and adaptive techniques
  • Aims to enable individuals to become more independent in activities of daily living (ADLs)

Occupational Therapy Services may include:

  • Home safety evaluation
  • ADL training
  • Energy conservation skills
  • Training on prosthetic or assistive device use
  • Sensory-motor evaluation

Contact Information:
E-mail: Contact via email
Phone: 208-529-0800

Palliative Care
Through the The Aspen Group Plus Program, A Trained Nurse:

  • Oversees pain control and symptom management
  • Provides coping skills for the disease process (of terminally ill patients)
  • Provides comprehensive physical, emotional and spiritual care services

Physical Therapy
A Registered Physical Therapist:
 
  • Evaluates and develops individual therapeutic plans for patients with mobility problems and functional limitations
  • Aims to maintain and restore strength, increases endurance and range of motion, relieves pain and improves functional capabilities

Physical Therapy services include:

  • Gait training
  • Therapeutic exercise
  • Transfer techniques
  • Recommendation and training in assistive device use

Contact Information:
E-mail: Contact via email
Phone: 208-529-0800

Speech Language Pathology
A Registered Speech Pathologist:

  • Evaluates and develops treatment plans for patients with communicative and swallowing disorders
  • Serves patients with speech and language impairment (aphasic post-CVA patients and those with memory and attention deficits not related to moderate to end-stage dementia)

Contact Information:
E-mail: Contact via email
Phone: 208-529-0800


Terminal Illness Services
Through the The Aspen Group Program, a Trained Nurse:

  • Provides palliative care for Medicare patients
  • Attempts to eliminate pain and control symptoms and side effects of ongoing treatment

Contact Information:
E-mail: Contact via email
Phone: 208-529-0800