Home Health Care - Dignity Health Mercy Memorial - Bakersfield

About Home Health Care - Dignity Health Mercy Memorial - Bakersfield

Home Health Care - Dignity Health Mercy Memorial - Bakersfield is a outpatient services clinic that offers many services, including wound care, chronic disease management, and infusion therapy. Visit Home Health Care - Dignity Health Mercy Memorial - Bakersfield located at 1600 D St, Bakersfield, CA. This Bakersfield outpatient services clinic is one of the best in California. As part of the Dignity Health network, Home Health Care - Dignity Health Mercy Memorial - Bakersfield is dedicated to delivering high quality, compassionate care and access to Bakersfield and nearby communities.

Services We Offer

• Wound Care
• Chronic Disease Management
• Infusion Therapy
• Catheter Care
• Pain and Symptom Management
• Medication Instruction, Monitoring
• Bowel Management
• Skin Integrity Monitoring

Wound Care

Wound care involves every stage of wound management. This includes diagnosing wound type, considering factors that affect wound healing, and the proper treatments for wound management.

Chronic Disease Management

Chronic disease care is ongoing support to assist individuals impacted by a chronic health condition the medical care, knowledge, and resources they need to better manage their lives.

Infusion Therapy

Infusion therapy is a means of delivering medication and fluids via a needle or catheter, such as an IV line. This allows medication and fluids to be delivered directly into the bloodstream at a controlled rate.

Catheter Care

Catheter care involves keeping the drainage bag below the level of your bladder and keeping the catheter secured to your thigh to prevent it from moving. Don't lie on your catheter or block the flow of urine in the tubing and shower daily to keep the catheter clean.

Pain and Symptom Management

Pain and symptom management is important in a number of circumstances, such as chronic health conditions and end-of-life care. With the management of main with pain medications and other interventions, a person's quality of life and their ability to concentrate and function improve.

Medication Instruction, Monitoring

Medication instruction and monitoring is designed to help patients learn about their medication and how to properly manage it and to ensure that they do so safely. This includes learning the names of the medications they are on, what each type of medication does for them, and when and how to take it.

Bowel Management

Bowel management is the process which a person with a bowel disability uses to manage fecal incontinence or constipation. A simple bowel management technique might include diet control and establishing a toilet routine.

Skin Integrity Monitoring

Skin integrity monitoring is done when there is a risk of pressure wounds, signs of infection, and other issues with the integrity of the skin that is vulnerable to injury or illness and does not have the ability to heal.