Home Bound - This means that due to your illness or injury it takes a considerable taxing effort for you to leave your home and your absences are infrequent and of short duration. You can still be considered homebound if you leave home to attend a religious service or to receive health care treatment, including regular absences to participate in therapeutic, psychosocial, or medical treatment in a state licensed / certified and / or accredited adult day-care program. If you are able to drive, then you probably do not meet the homebound requirement.

Home Care - Home care includes Medicare-certified home health agencies, hospice care, private duty services, home infusion therapy and home medical equipment.

Home Health - Medicare-certified home health agencies providing intermittent nursing, physical, occupational and speech therapy, medical social services and home health aide services. These services are ordered by a physician and focus on helping the patient to be as independent as possible.

Home Infusion - Home infusion therapy involves the administration of medications using intravenous, subcutaneous, and epidural routes (into the bloodstream, under the skin, and into the membranes surrounding the spinal cord).

Home Medical Equipment - Home Medical Equipment (HME) is any equipment that provides therapeutic benefits or enables the beneficiary to perform certain tasks that he or she is unable to undertake otherwise due to certain medical conditions and or illnesses. HME includes equipment such as wheelchairs, hospital beds, traction equipment, canes, crutches, walkers, kidney machines, ventilators, oxygen and other medically needed items.

Hospice - A facility or program designed to provide a caring environment for supplying the physical and emotional needs of the terminally ill.

Health Watch - Health Watch is a personal monitoring system that provides immediate response to any situation 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week at the push of a button.

Private Home Care - A program that provides individuals of all ages with nursing, personal care, homemaker and companion services in homes or facilities (hospitals, nursing homes, assisted-living facilities) up to twenty-four hours a day. Services are paid by the individual. Generally, specific criteria must be met in order for insurance companies, workers compensation or government programs to cover the cost of the services.

Respiratory Services - OSF Home Medical Equipment specializes in the management of chronic respiratory conditions. They offer many services including (but not limited to) supplemental oxygen, respiratory medications, nebulizers, ventilators and aerosol therapy.