Columbia Montour Home Health & Hospice

What is home health care? Home health care is professional services prescribed for your specific illness or injury, provided in the comfort of your own home.

Care may include nursing, home health aide services, nutrition and social work counseling, and physical, occupational and speech therapy.

Carrying on the time-honored tradition of Visiting Nurses Association, Columbia Montour Home Health has been established in this community since 1967. Our highly qualified professional and technical staff provides care to residents of Columbia and Montour counties, lower Luzerne, upper Northumberland and surrounding counties.

For the patient. Hospice works with the family or nursing home staff to provide care for the patient who is terminally ill. Goals of care are established with the patient and family and a care plan is developed to help meet realistic and achievable goals.

The hospice team provides the patient with medical care to relieve pain and other symptoms arising from a life-limiting illness. Medications are ordered by the primary physician or hospice doctor. Laboratory services related to symptom control deemed essential to treatment or for recertification are provided by the hospice program.