Home Health Care in Town 'n' Country, FL

Town ‘n’ Country started as a planned neighborhood of single-family homes and townhouses built on what was once dairy land near Hillsborough Avenue and Memorial Highway. For the families who live here now, home health care in Town ‘n’ Country, FL, means skilled help can come to the house when someone gets sick, has surgery or needs to rebuild strength.

What is home health care in Town ‘n’ Country?

Think of it as part of your doctor’s treatment plan carried out at your kitchen table. A Making Memories Home Health nurse or therapist comes to your home in Town ‘n’ Country on a schedule your doctor approves, gives hands-on skilled care, and teaches you how to keep making progress when no one from our team is there. It is part-time care. It is not a sitter service or 24-hour help, and it never takes the place of 911 in an emergency.

Here is what our clinicians most often do in this neighborhood:

• Skilled nursing to check vital signs, watch for warning signs of heart failure or COPD, and teach blood sugar control for diabetes.
• Physical therapy after a fall, a stroke or a joint replacement.
• Speech therapy when swallowing, speaking or memory has become harder.
• Catheter care for urinary catheters. We change or remove a catheter only with a doctor’s order.

Living at home in Town ‘n’ Country

Homes here range from single-family houses to townhouse communities where the bedroom may be up a flight of stairs. Stairs, tight bathrooms and low lighting are common reasons for a fall after a hospital stay. Our therapists look at your space with you and suggest simple changes. The Florida heat is another concern. Diuretics and certain heart medicines can leave you dried out faster in that heat, so ask your nurse how much to drink and keep insulin and other medicines out of a hot car.

Who qualifies for care in Town ‘n’ Country

Here is the Medicare checklist, in plain terms:

• An order and a plan. A doctor, or an NP, CNS or PA who qualifies as an allowed practitioner, certifies your need for care at home and periodically looks over the care plan we write.
• A skilled need. You need nursing or therapy on a part-time basis, meaning intermittent skilled nursing, physical or speech-language therapy, or occupational therapy that carries on from earlier care.
• Homebound status. It takes you considerable and taxing effort to get out of the house. An occasional quick trip to a medical appointment, your place of worship or adult day care is okay.
• A recent visit. Your provider met with you in person about the condition behind your referral, no more than 90 days before or 30 days after home health begins.

What Medicare pays for in Town ‘n’ Country

Because we are Medicare-certified, Medicare can pay for your visits with us once you meet that checklist. What it leaves out: supervision around the clock, meals, and housekeeping or bathing help on its own. 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. Our insurance page has more details.

How to start home health in Town ‘n’ Country

Usually your doctor, or the discharge planner at the hospital where you stayed, sends Making Memories Home Health a referral. Medical offices use our referral form or our fax line, (813) 931-0017. Your family can get things moving too: dial (813) 931-0015 during weekday office hours (8:30 AM to 5:00 PM) and tell us who your doctor is. We take it from there, getting orders, checking coverage and booking your opening visit. Our current patients can phone an on-call nurse at any hour, 24/7.

Areas we serve in Town ‘n’ Country

Town ‘n’ Country is an unincorporated area of Hillsborough County, west of our office and bordered on the south by the city of Tampa. Our nurses and therapists head west along Hillsborough Avenue and Waters Avenue, and they use Memorial Highway, Sheldon Road, Linebaugh Avenue and the Veterans Expressway to get around the neighborhood. We visit homes in ZIP codes 33615, 33634 and 33635, including Town ‘n’ Country Park near the Hillsborough Avenue and Memorial Highway intersection, Bay Crest Park, Timberlane and Countryway near the Upper Tampa Bay Trail.

Hospitals whose discharge planners we coordinate with include HCA Florida West Tampa Hospital on Webb Road, AdventHealth Carrollwood and St. Joseph’s Hospital in Tampa.

Next door to the northeast, we also care for families in Carrollwood. See every area we serve in Hillsborough County.