Whether you or your loved one needs in home help with recovery, ongoing support with a serious illness or compassionate end-of-life care, our interdisciplinary offers an individualized approach to meeting your specific needs.
Our Medicare-certified and Washington state licensed providers use an interdisciplinary, individualized approach to meeting healthcare needs in your home
LEARN MOREPalliative care improves the lives of patients and families facing serious illness. It focuses on relief of pain, symptoms, and stress -whatever the diagnosis.
LEARN MOREOur caring and compassionate team provides high quality, compassionate end-of-life care for people with terminal illness.
LEARN MOREOne press of the lightweight, waterproof help button activates a small in-home unit that puts you in touch with a caring Lifeline monitor who is there to help, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
LEARN MOREWhidbeyHealth Home Health provides an interdisciplinary, individualized approach to meeting healthcare needs in your home. When you need help, it's a relief to know you can receive exceptional healthcare right at home.
WhidbeyHealth Home Health is a Medicare-certified and Washington state licensed home health agency providing services to all of Whidbey Island.
This team of caring professionals includes physical therapists, occupational therapists, registered nurses, licensed professional nurses, a certified wound care nurse, a speech therapist, a medical social worker and certified nursing assistants.
"A home healthcare worker gets the bigger picture of what's going on in the patient's life and in their home," says Home Health director Karen Schanno.
"It's not just physical needs that are fulfilled, but social needs, as well," Schanno says.
"My mother-in-law and I loved the Home Health staff. Very professional, yet kind.
They considered all our needs and their humor helped
in such delicate circumstances."
─ Patient Family of WhidbeyHealth Home Health
In collaboration with your physician, our team provides the skilled care you need in your home setting. Whether recovering from surgery or an acute illness, our individualized caring approach can help you to return your optimum condition.
This care may prevent unwanted hospitalization, allow quicker discharge from a facility and enable patients to stay at home through an acute illness or convalescence.
Our Home Health team received the Guardian of Excellence Award in 2013 in recognition of exceptional patient satisfaction.
Home Health is covered by Medicare, Medicaid and most private insurance companies.
Please contact your insurance provider if you have questions.
For more information regarding our financial services, policies, help estimating the cost of your visit/procedure and financial assistance programs, visit Financial Services.
Palliative care improves the lives of patients and families facing serious illness. It focuses on relief of pain, symptoms and stress - whatever the diagnosis.
Comfort, Relief, Compassionate Care
Our team works closely with your primary provider or hospitalist to provide the best supportive care for patients and families facing serious illness. Here is what we do:
People living with any serious or debilitating illness e.g., cancer, congestive heart failure, lung disease, kidney failure, liver disorder, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia.
Palliative care helps through all stages of illness.
Palliative care provides the best results when it is introduced early in your care, at the same time curative treatments are provided.
Palliative care is not hospice. Both use a team of experts to provide pain relief and comfort care, but palliative care can be appropriate at any stage of serious illness. Hospice care is a type of palliative care but is intended for patients with six months or less to live.
Carla Jolley MN, ARNP, AOCN, CHPN, Palliative Care (pictured right) provides the initial palliative care consult, which can be done with inpatients, with outpatients in our Cancer Care clinic or at a skilled nursing facility. Patients experiencing a decline in their ability to function can receive their consultation in their home or in assisted living. Our interdisciplinary team includes a master’s level social worker and an experienced chaplain; the goal of care is to support the whole person and their family system.
Depending on your needs, a team member can be involved for a short time or as part of your long-term care plan and needs.
We are committed to providing excellent palliative care whether a person has been recently diagnosed, is in active treatment, has completed therapy or is nearing end of life.
Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers typically cover palliative care services. It is similar to seeing other specialists such as cardiologists.
Palliative care requires a provider's order. However, anyone may request a referral, after which we will contact your physician or provider to discuss our program. We work in partnership with your provider to offer an extra layer of support for you and your family.
One press of the lightweight, waterproof help button activates a small in-home unit that puts you in touch with a caring Lifeline monitor who is there to help, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
For added safety and convenience, use the home communicator as a speakerphone, which allows you to answer the phone without rushing to pick up the handset.
Lifeline is the only personal emergency response service in the industry to offer the waterproof Auto Alert button, which is worn around the neck. If a subscriber falls and cannot press the button, it will automatically send a call for help.
Visit the Lifeline website to learn more about this valuable service.
WhidbeyHealth Hospice Care provides high quality, compassionate end-of-life care for people with terminal illness.
WhidbeyHealth Hospice Care is Medicare-certified, which means that someone on Medicare receives hospice services at no cost.
WhidbeyHealth Hospice Care provides services that are customized to the needs of the patient, which include:
We are proud of our commitment to providing quality care and services to veterans and their families.
The professional staff and volunteers at WhidbeyHealth Hospice Care are committed to the physical, emotional, social and spiritual well being of their patients and the people who care for them.
We provide care wherever a patient lives, whether it is their personal residence, a skilled nursing facility, an assisted living facility or an adult family home. We serve all of Whidbey Island.
Hospice is a family-centered, holistic approach to patient care. The hospice team visits regularly to provide care, answer questions and make the patient as comfortable as possible. We focus exclusively on the patient's goals and wishes.
Our team supports patients and families with comprehensive expertise in the management of physical, emotional and spiritual needs. For most hospice patients, “comfort care” means spending the last months of their lives within familiar surroundings with family, friends, pets and relaxed routines.
"It is hard at this time to express the full gratitude that I have for your kind and expert care."
− Patient family member
Our Hospice Care team includes:
Hospice care is appropriate when the patient’s physician determines that curative efforts are no longer appropriate and when life expectancy is six months or less.
Patients have the option to return to curative therapy at any time. Any patient, family member, friend or physician can call WhidbeyHealth Hospice Care and get immediate information about how we can help.
Hospice care can begin immediately upon referral from the patient’s physician. A representative from WhidbeyHealth Hospice Care typically visits the patient within 24 hours to evaluate his or her eligibility and needs and to begin care.
Hospice care is covered under Medicare, Medicaid and most private insurance.