With our skilled nursing care, a licensed nurse will work with you or your loved one’s physician and visit the home to provide high-level medical care.
With our skilled nursing care, a licensed nurse will work with you or your loved one’s physician and visit the home to provide high-level medical care.
Medicare-certified skilled nursing can be a vital support for your older loved one, whether they’re recovering from an illness, managing a chronic condition, or transitioning from a rehab unit or hospital.
Skilled nursing provides a range of services for your specific plan of care including:
Medicare-certified skilled nursing is care from a licensed nurse in your home that has been ordered by your physician as part of a written plan of care. Health Care Connectors is an ACHC-accredited, Medicare-certified home health agency licensed by the Connecticut Department of Public Health. Our nurses provide pain assessment and management, wound and dressing care, injections and medication administration, ostomy care and education, tube feeding, catheter care, tracheostomy care, and monitoring of vital signs and drains.
You qualify if your physician certifies that you need skilled nursing or therapy on an intermittent basis, you are homebound, and you receive care from a Medicare-certified agency. Homebound means leaving home takes considerable effort or help; it does not mean you can never leave. A prior hospital stay is not required. Medicare covers 100 percent of the cost of eligible home health services.
Visit frequency follows your physician’s order and your needs, typically one to two visits per week, with each visit lasting about an hour or less. Skilled nursing is intended for a limited period, often several weeks, to stabilize your condition and teach you or your family to manage it.
Medicare-certified visits end when the goals in your plan of care are met. If your family wants nursing care to continue, or wants more hours than Medicare allows, our concierge private nursing can begin at that point with no eligibility requirements, so there is no gap in care. Many clients use both at the same time: Medicare-certified visits for the core plan and private nursing for the hours in between.
Yes. Health Care Connectors has certified wound and ostomy nurse specialists who oversee care for non-healing wounds, infections, and new ostomies, and who train patients and family caregivers on day-to-day management.
Last reviewed: September 2026
When daily living skills (such as getting dressed or taking a shower) become a problem, occupational therapists can help rehabilitate weak areas and teach compensatory strategies so patients can continue to enjoy everyday life.
Our physical therapy services can help improve strength and balance needed to increase safety with walking and to reduce the risk of falls. It can also help reduce pain and increasing overall mobility.
We have skilled speech therapists available to address your loved one’s communication issues. They can work with them, their caregivers, and physicians to help improve not only their speech but also swallowing, memory and problem solving skills, organization, and more.
Our specialized Pulmonary Home Health Program provides expert care to improve outcomes and reduce readmissions for patients with high-risk COPD or chronic lung disease.
Home health aides provided by Medicare can help with daily self-care tasks like incontinence care, bathing, dressing, and other needs.
Medical social workers connect you and your caregivers with the community resources you need.
