Home Health Care

As one of Illinois' oldest hospital-based home care agencies, Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Home Health Care has been bringing quality, gracious and skilled in-home care to thousands of area residents for more than 30 years.

The experienced staff of Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Home Health Care offers a wide variety of services that range from personal care to high-tech infusion services — all in the comfort of your own home.  Skilled care is provided by RNs and therapists with diverse clinical backgrounds in the care of patients with acute and chronic illness.

These services, when ordered and managed by your physician, instill confidence as you gradually gain independence.  We are dedicated to helping you improve your quality of life after leaving the hospital or any other time you require assessment, education and skilled intermittent care.

Scope of Professional Services

Our team is a caring, diverse group of professionals committed to providing the highest-quality home care and comfort.  Registered nurses; physical, occupational and speech therapists; medical social workers; and home health aides work with you and your family to promote an optimal level of healthy independence. 

We also have a certified wound care nurse who consults with staff and patients regarding complex wounds that are hard to heal.  Additional services can be provided by our dietitian, diabetic specialist and chaplain.

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Contact Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Home Health Care

One phone call from you or your physician leads to friendly, thorough, accessible and convenient professional care — 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.  Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Home Health Care is licensed in Lake, Northern Cook and Eastern McHenry counties and is accredited by The Joint Commission.  For more information, please call Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Home Health Care at (847) 535-8788.

What is Home Health Care?

The criteria that make a beneficiary eligible for home health care is defined by Medicare and most insurances as "skilled care, ordered by a physician, to a homebound individual, intermittently and for a short duration, after acute illness or an exacerbation of chronic illness, in a safe environment."

An individual is considered homebound if leaving home requires taxing effort, the help of another individual or the use of an assistive device.  It is usually due to illness or injury that an individual's ability to leave home is restricted.  In general, time away from home should be of short duration and infrequent.