Gentiva offers variety of health-related services

From Staff Reports

   KINGSPORT -- Gentiva Health Services offers a variety of health-related services.
   The Web site (www.gentiva.com) states, "Our customers include managed care organizations, employers, governmental agencies, hospitals and individuals, who rely on us as their single source for a variety of home health services."
   Gentiva's services include skilled nursing services, physical, occupational, neurological and speech therapy, home health aides and personal care assistants, home medical equipment, respiratory therapy, pediatric and perinatal care, rehabilitation, disease management, and network services for managed care organizations and self-insured employers.
   Gentiva offers assessment, catheter care/changes, enteral/parenteral therapies, infusion therapies, medication instruction, monitoring of acute conditions, bathing and other personal care, PT, OT, and ST therapies, teaching ostomy care, wound care/dressing changes, education on disease management, venipuncture, nutrition counseling, and ostomy management.
   Gentiva has the ability to handle a wide range of cases, from the simple to the complex. Common diagnoses include angina, burns, CAD, Chronic Airway Obstruction, Congestive Health Failure, CVA, diabetes, depression, Dysphagia, hypertension, incontinence, neurogenic bladder, osteoarthritis, PVD, Senile Osteoporosis, Ortho-Total knee/hip, ulcers/open wounds.
   Under the direction of a clinical team leader, highly trained clinicians provide interdisciplinary services to patients. Team members include RNs, LPNs, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech/language pathologists, home health aides, social workers, registered dietitians, certified nursing assistants, personal care assistants, physicians and other medical specialists.
   Nationwide, Gentiva has more than 50,000 employees. Locally, the firm has 85 employees and serves Elizabethton as well as all of Northeast Tennessee.
   For more information, call 230-1000.