Pacifica Medical is a CHAP Accredited, Medicare Certified Licensed Home Health Agency offering the highest level of care outside a hospital or nursing home. Home health Services are a benefit provided with no out of pocket cost to Medicare and privately insured patients. Call today and we can work with your physician to help you qualify for in-home services based on your medical condition and certain criteria.
We provide family focused patient care, including patient and family caregiver teaching, coordination of equipment, supplies, and available community services. We offer weekend and holiday admissions, and 24/7 nursing oversight.
ABOUT US:
PACIFICA HEALTH AND MEDICAL adheres to the belief that life is sacred, that delivery of home care should be made in a loving compassionate and professional manner; that home health agency can help patients attain wholeness, healing reconciliation and unity not only through medication and treatment but also by fostering love and peace; that home health workers should respect every person, regardless of age, sex or sexual orientation, handicap or physical disability race or religion and ensure the fair, just and equitable treatment of personnel and staff; and that the ideal home health agency should make every effort to reach out to the members of the community in an effort to better serve its home health and home care needs.
WHAT WE CAN DO FOR YOU:
• CARDIOVASCULAR AND PULMONARY DISEASE MANAGEMENT
• DIABETIC CARE AND MANAGEMENT
• FALL RISK PREVENTION
• INFUSION THERAPY AND IV ANTIBIOTIC SERVICES
• POST SURGICAL CARE
• PERSONAL NURSING AND HOME CARE
• TRAVEL/VACATION/TRANSPORTATION NURSING
• TOTAL KNEE AND HIP REHABILITATION
• WOUND CARE MANAGEMENT
Home Health Specialty Services:
Pacifica Medical offers many Home Health Specialty Services for common chronic conditions and sudden-onset events and Programs to prevent re-
hospitalization:
• Arthritis
• Diabetes
• Stroke
• Wound Care
• Congestive Heart Failure
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
• Residence Safety & Fall Prevention
OUR SERVICES:
SKILLED NURSING:
Our nurses provide the highest quality of care and exemplify the values of compassion, commitment, and professionalism. We work closely with your physician to develop a specific care plan tailored to meet all of your nursing needs. Each of our nurses is highly skilled in disease management, observation, assessment, and education, catheter care, wound and ostomy care, IV infusion and injections, tube feedings and care, nutritional assessment and specialized care for other chronic conditions.
PHYSICAL THERAPY:
Our highly qualified physical therapists provide services that will help restore function, improve mobility, relieve pain and prevent or limit permanent physical disabilities that you may have incurred from injuries or disease. We work with your physician to develop and implement a customized plan specific to your condition. We provide gait and balance exercise and training, strength and endurance training, individualized home exercise program, adaptive equipment assessment, safety training, and have a specialized fall
prevention program.
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY:
Our occupational therapists aim to improve your ability for daily functions and work environment tasks by providing you with the skills needed for the performance of daily living. Our therapists will help you to develop, recover or maintain motor functions and reasoning abilities. Our services include therapies for activities of daily living, strength and endurance training, perceptual and fine motor training, adaptive equipment assessment, splinting and home safety program.
SPEECH THERAPY:
Pacifica's speech therapists concentrate on patients with impaired speech, language and voice disorders. Our therapists assess, treat, and help to prevent speech, language, voice, and swallowing fluency. We provide treatment for voice disorders and speech articulation, such as inappropriate pitch, or harsh voice, dysphasia, inability to produce speech sounds or produce them clearly, language disorders, cognitive disorder treatment, dysphasia and swallowing treatment.
MEDICAL SOCIAL WORKERS:
Our medical social workers offer compassionate counseling and advocacy as they tackle your social, financial, and medical needs. We provide you with community resources and coping techniques that will help you with personal, emotional and financial problems, and assistance with long or short-term placement in a care facility, if appropriate.
HOME HEALTH AIDE:
Our certified home health aides lend a helping hand in daily activities such as personal care, hygiene needs including grooming and bathing, transfers, walking, light housekeeping, meal preparation, and compliance with doctor's orders and medication management. Aides also enhance the life of the patient through companionship and fostering continuance of activities for enjoyment such as reading the paper, assistance in gardening and other appropriate activities based on the particular needs, abilities, or limitations of a patient.
OUR STAFF:
Our employees meet the highest standards and adhere to the following criteria: State licensing and health requirements, extensive background screening, thorough reference screening, CPR certified, and follow a strict code of ethics. We insure our employees for general and professional liability and workman's compensation so you don't have to worry about legal problems. Our employees are appropriately trained and have recent experience in their assigned areas of care or service.
INSURANCE:
• Medicare
• Blue Cross
• Blue Shield
• United Health
• Assurant Health
• Beech Street/Viant
• CIGNA Healthcare
• Great-West
• CIGNA
• Coventry National Network /First Health
• Health Net
• Humana
• ChoiceCare (Commercial)
• Humana & ChoiceCare (Medicare Advantage)
• Sutter Health
LICENSES & ACCREDITATIONS:
• CA STATE LICENSED
• MEDICARE CERTIFIED
• CHAP ACCREDITED
MISSION STATEMENT:
Pacifica provides a personalized, caring and respectable healthcare environment that is patient and family oriented
for disease prevention, community centered health restoration, maintenance and education that reflect our lifetime
commitment to excellence in service, practice and leadership for the community we serve.
THE PACIFICA EXPERIENCE:
• Servicing all of San Diego County, including outlying areas
• We offer a family-center approach to care so you receive more communication.
• Our commitment to integrity and quality care means a higher level of service.
• Our services are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with nurses available 24 hours a day allowing you peace of mind.
• Visits are conducted around client and family schedules
• Admissions performed by local and friendly staff
• Providing you with the intimate care and attention that you deserve.
• We are locally owned and part of a community.
• Licensed, bonded, highly insured.
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