Avera at Home

Avera at Home provides a variety of home care services that make it possible for individuals to remain in their home rather than long-term residential or nursing home facilities. Avera at Home is a full-service, accredited home medical equipment provider offering a variety of medical and health-related items for purchase or rent. Additionally, it provides quality home health care with a full range of skilled nursing, therapy, and home health aide services.Finally, Avera at Home provides hospice care for people facing a life-limiting illness or injury. Quality, compassionate care is provided in the patient's home or within a 16-bed residential and inpatient care hospice facility in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.Avera at Home continued to provide services to Covid-19 patients. Patients receive care at home via virtual methods, including phone, text and video chat interactions. Many of the patients would have been hospitalized without the Avera at Home services. The Avera at Home Home Monitoring helped keep people out of the hospital while still getting the healthcare they need.Avera at Home teams helped in many ways:- Providing follow-up care for patients after they left hospitals, clinics and emergency rooms- Setting patients up with important medical equipment, including oxygen- Supporting patients with ongoing, often daily, virtual visits or phone calls- Virtual monitoring of vital signs for at-home patientsThe ongoing connection, even when virtual, gave patients the confidence to continue their recovery at home.