St. Luke Home Health & Hospice

Your Health, Your Community, Our Priority

Our home care services at Southwest Health aims to provide patients with quality medical care in the comfortable, familiar environment of home. Everything we do at our Mississippi hospital centers on our patients' well-being-this mission of excellence extends to our hospice and home care services. At St. Luke Home Health & Hospice, we work hard to ensure that our patients have access to safe, therapeutic environments.

ASK YOUR DOCTOR ABOUT SEEING IF YOU NEED ST. LUKE HOME HEALTH to get you back to good health!

What Is the Difference Between Hospice Care & Home Care?

Hospice care has the following attributes:

Hospice is a philosophy of care
Hospice is holistic in approach, and includes nursing, physicians, social services, counseling, spiritual care, therapies, and volunteers
Skilled care is not essential, but is available
Homebound status not essential; care can be given wherever the patient resides
Inpatient respite care is available
Bereavement counseling is provided
Written bereavement care plan required.
Care continues if patient lives longer than six months
Up to 24-hour nursing care at home is available for acute pain and crisis management
The patient / family is viewed as a unit of care
Patients are terminally ill
Nurses specialize in pain and symptom management
Purpose of program is comfort, not cure
There is a heavy emphasis on emotional and spiritual support for the client and family

Home care is different and defined by these attributes:

Home care is a method of delivering nursing care
Nursing is involved, along with other therapies as necessary
Home care must be skilled care
Home care must be homebound
No respite care is available
Home care does not include bereavement counseling
No care plan is required as the client is discharged on death and the family is not followed
Home care is discharged when skilled need no longer exists
24-hour nursing care is not available
Care is client-oriented
Home care encompasses a wide range of client problems from those affecting newborns to the terminally ill
Nurses use a variety of skills
The purpose of a home care program is rehabilitation and cure
There is an emphasis in home care on physical care

You Open Your Home. We Open Our Hearts.

Home care lets you stay where you are and enjoy the most independence and self-reliance possible while receiving the medical care you need. Our hospice experts strive to provide you and / or your loved one with the trained services and pain management necessary to live in comfort in your familiar environment. Our team of registered nurses, home health aides, chaplains, caregivers, and social workers all work together to provide the best care possible.

Learn More About St. Luke Home Health & Hospice

St. Luke Home Health & Hospice serves communities throughout the McComb area, including Pike, Amite, Franklin, Lincoln, Copiah, Lawrence, Walthall, Covington, Marion, Lamar, Jeff Davis, Simpson, and Smith counties. You or your pastor, doctor, family member, spouse, friend, or anyone else can call us at any time for hospice / home care service. We'll develop a treatment plan designed around your needs. We look forward to serving you.

NEW COLLINS OFFICE! CALL 601-712-1021

Columbia Office: Call 601-690-0894

Brookhaven Office: Call 601-833-4619

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Contacts:

donna.gardner@smrmc.com - St Luke Home Health and Hospice Executive Director

julie.roberts@stlukehomehealth.org - Hospice Director

maria.kilian@stlukehomehealth.org - Liberty Office

kellie.brady@stlukehomehealth.org - Collins Director

keisa.allred@stlukehomehealth.org - McComb Director

david.brown@stlukehomehealth.org - Columbia Director

elizabeth.king@stlukehomehealth.org