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Welcome to WestCare Home Health and Hospice. Since 1925, Harris Regional Hospital has been providing home health care services to patients in Western North Carolina. Through all of our services, our goal is to help create the best possible health and living conditions for our patients...in the comfort and privacy of their own home. Home Health provides a way for people in need of health care services to maintain their own way of living. It means offering services that smooth the transition from hospital care to independent living. Our services include:

• Physical Therapy
• Occupational Therapy
• Speech Therapy
• Skilled Nursing Services
• In-Home Aide
• Social Work Services
• CAP/DA
• CAP/C
• Lifeline
• Home Supportive Services
• Personal Care Services
• Self-pay Aide Services

WestCare Home Health's Office is located in Sylva but serves Graham, Haywood, Jackson, Macon and Swain.
If you have any questions please contact WestCare Home Health and Hospice at (828) 586-7410.

Physical Therapists from the WestCare Rehabilitation Team assist patients in their recovery from illnesses and injuries that create physical challenges in their lives. Patients are assessed with consideration given to their recovery environment and a treatment plan is developed to help them achieve success in reaching their goals.

The goal of Home Health Occupational Therapists is to safely increase the independence of their patients by helping them return to their prior level of function. Occupational Therapists help the patient build-up physical strength, and regain coordination and organizational skills. This in turn may lead to the patient being able to reassume activities such as bathing, dressing, meal preparation and household chores.

During a time of trauma or injury, the ability to communicate is one of the patient's greatest assets toward a speedy recovery. Speech therapy services evaluate, diagnose, plan and provide therapy in the home through prescribed and widely recognized exercise therapies utilizing the latest speech technologies to improve communication skills. In addition to serving WestCare Home Health and Hospice, the Rehabilitation Services Outreach Team serves patients of Mountain Trace Nursing Center and the Transitional Care Unit at Harris Regional Hospital. Our Pediatric Team serves children in area school systems, day care centers, in patients homes and outpatients in our Outpatient Centers.

WestCare Home Health staff provide skilled nursing care with the goal of improving a patients quality of life. These nursing services include:

• Assessment and Evaluation
• Disease Management
• Disease Process Education
• Care of Central Lines
• Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition
• Diet Management and Education
• 24 Hour RN Coverage for Crisis Care
• Education of Medication Management
• Wound Care
• Administration of Intravenous, Intramuscular and Subcutaneous Medications

Basic instruction in self-care procedures can often enable the patient to maintain the freedom of living in their own home.

Aides provide direct patient care and emotional support, help with lifes everyday tasks, such as bathing, grooming, dressing, feeding and home management. They are also trained to assist with a patient's physical activities. This service is available through several payer-option sources for clients who meet the criteria.

An illness or injury can put tremendous strain on patients' resources, their emotional well-being, even their family relationships. Medical Social Work services can help reduce this strain by connecting the patient and family with specific resources that are available to assist in meeting the patient's health care needs.

The Community Alternatives Program for Disabled Adults is a Medicaid program that provides In-Home Services such as:

• Screening and Assessment
• Adult Day Health Care
• Home Mobility Aids
• Lifeline
• Some medical supplies not otherwise covered under Medicaid
• Case Management
• In-Home Aid Services
• Respite Care - Institutional and Home-Based
• Home Delivered Meals

It is a less costly alternative to nursing home care. It is available to adults 18 and older who have significant health problems and are at risk for institutionalization. CAP-DA is available in Jackson County, and makes care at home a real possibility for many who face nursing home placement. Each county is limited to a maximum number of persons who may be served on the program each year. Local operations are handled by a county-designated lead agency. The lead agency for Jackson County is Harris Regional Hospital.

The Community Alternatives Program for Children is a Medicaid funded program. It offers a complete package of home-based services to medically high-risk children (birth to age 18) who would otherwise require long-term institutionalization in a hospital or nursing facility

LifeLine is a personal response service that gives you the confidence and freedom to live on your own. The moment your signal is received at the LifeLine Response Center your LifeLine team is called into action:

• Your personal profile is displayed on our computer.
• LifeLine Emergency Response Personnel immediately dispatch emergency services.
• Your designated neighbors, friends, family members and personal doctor are notified of your condition.
• LifeLine always stays in contact until the emergency is over.
• Have immediate access to medical care.
• Enjoy the confidence and security of knowing you are always protected.
• Remain active and independent.
• Reduce the anxiety of living alone.
• Be assured immediate notification of your physician if an emergency should occur.

Help is just a push button away 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for a small monthly fee.

Home supportive service is a block-grant funded program which offers help to the elderly who are unable to care for themselves. The service assists with essential household activities, meal preparation, chore services and incidental personal care.

Personal Care Services are beneficial to Medicaid recipients with ongoing medical conditions who wish to remain in their home but are in need of assistance with regular household management. PCS recipients can qualify for up to 60 hours of care per month with a physician's order.

Self-pay aide services are for people who do not qualify for Medicaid, Skilled services, or Block Grant funds, but need assistance to remain independent in their homes, and they or their families have the ability to pay privately for these services. These services are offered to individuals who, are elderly, disabled, or suffer from chronic illness, who need some assistance to remain independent in their homes, or those who are Post-Partum or Post-Surgery and need some assistance until they can care for themselves. Services include personal care activities such as bathing, grooming, dressing, etc. In addition to personal care, they may also need assistance with light housekeeping, medication reminders, home management, meal preparation, errands/shopping and assistance with the public transit system, and accompanying them to appointments. We also offer Respite in the home to give the caregivers a break.


Self-pay RN Services
This service provides an RN for an assessment, medication prefills, labs not otherwise covered by insurance or injecions.


(May use long term care insurance for above services.)

For information about this service contact us by clicking here.