Home Health Care in Carrollwood, FL

Carrollwood is just up North Dale Mabry Highway from our office. Its quiet streets around Lake Carroll, the neighborhoods of Carrollwood Village and the shops along Dale Mabry Highway are part of our everyday drive. Families here call Making Memories Home Health when a loved one is leaving the hospital, getting over surgery or struggling with a long-term illness, and they want home health care in Carrollwood, FL, from a team that knows the area.

What is home health care in Carrollwood?

It is medical care, ordered by your doctor, that comes to you. A nurse or therapist visits your Carrollwood home a set number of times each week, does the skilled work your plan calls for, and teaches you and your family what to do in between. Care is part-time, not 24-hour. Anything urgent, like chest pain or sudden trouble breathing, is a 911 call.

The care Carrollwood families request most often includes:

• Wound care after surgery or for wounds that heal slowly.
• Home IV therapy, such as IV antibiotics or fluids, and PICC line care. We do not insert PICC lines; your hospital or infusion team places them and our nurses care for them at home. We do not supply the drugs; an infusion pharmacy set up by your doctor or hospital delivers them.
• Medication management for the new, longer pill list many people bring home from the hospital.
• Occupational therapy for bathing, dressing and kitchen tasks.

Older homes, mature trees and safety at home

The original part of Carrollwood, around Lake Carroll, is one of the area’s older suburbs, with mature oaks shading many yards. An older house may have a step at the front door, narrow hallways or a small bathroom, and those details matter when you are using a walker for the first time. Our therapists check your entry, hallways and bathroom, then show you safer ways to get around. If roots have lifted the sidewalk or the driveway is uneven, mention it so your clinician can plan the safest path to the door.

Who qualifies in Carrollwood

Medicare sets four main conditions. First, a physician, or an NP, CNS or PA acting as an allowed practitioner, certifies that you need home health and keeps reviewing your plan of care. Second, your needs are skilled: part-time nursing, physical therapy, speech-language therapy, or occupational therapy you are continuing. Third, you are homebound, so getting out of your Carrollwood home is a considerable and taxing effort. A rare, brief outing for a checkup, a worship service or adult day care does not disqualify you. Fourth, you saw your provider face to face for this problem sometime in the 90 days before your first home visit or the 30 days after it.

How Medicare covers home health in Carrollwood

Meet those four conditions, choose a Medicare-certified agency like ours, and Medicare can pay for your visits. Help around the clock, meal delivery, and personal care or housekeeping by itself are not part of the benefit. We accept Traditional Medicare, plus long-term care plans and private pay. Medicare Advantage coverage and our participation depend on your specific plan, so we verify both before care starts. Call (813) 931-0015 to verify your coverage. Plan details are listed on the insurance page.

How to start care in Carrollwood

Care begins with a referral: your physician or the hospital’s discharge planner names Making Memories Home Health as your agency. A physician’s office can submit the referral through our website or by fax at (813) 931-0017. If you would rather begin with a phone call, dial (813) 931-0015 between 8:30 AM and 5:00 PM, Monday through Friday. We will gather your information, call your doctor’s office for orders and check your benefits. Then a nurse or therapist visits to build your plan of care with you. Current patients have an on-call nurse available 24/7.

Areas we serve in Carrollwood

Carrollwood is an unincorporated community in Hillsborough County with Tampa mailing addresses, mainly in ZIP codes 33618 and 33624. Its eastern border follows North Dale Mabry Highway, the same road our office is on. From there, our clinicians use Busch Boulevard and Gunn Highway, Fletcher Avenue, Bearss Avenue and Ehrlich Road to reach homes across the community. We visit Original Carrollwood around Lake Carroll, Carrollwood Village, the streets near the Carrollwood Cultural Center on Lowell Road, and neighboring Northdale and Citrus Park.

AdventHealth Carrollwood stands on North Dale Mabry Highway, the same road as our office, and its discharge planners are among the hospital teams we coordinate with. Others include St. Joseph’s Hospital-North in Lutz plus Tampa General Hospital and St. Joseph’s Hospital closer to downtown.

Our bilingual team speaks English and Spanish. Living a little farther north? See our page on Lutz, or view all of Hillsborough County.