Health at Home

Our commitment to your health and well-being doesn’t end when you leave the hospital or provider’s office. There are times when you may need health care in the comfort of your own home and Health at Home, a service of Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, is proud to bring high quality, compassionate home care to you through our local office.

Serving individuals throughout Pierce County, our trusted, skilled team provides the care you need to recover from an illness, surgery, or to manage a chronic disease — all in the comfort of your home. The Health at Home team works with you, your providers, and family members to design and develop the best approach to help quickly regain your health.

Home care services

Home care provides treatment or assistance to a recuperating, chronically ill, or disabled person in the home. Home care also includes specialized programs or prevention and health maintenance. You’ll find our results are better than most and our level of care and professional is unsurpassed. Our home care services include:

• Home Health Aides
• Occupational therapy
• Physical therapy
• Skilled nursing care
• Social work
• Speech therapy

You can have confidence in our extensive experience and commitment to the highest quality ideals. All our associates have undergone stringent personnel assessments that are unique to our industry and receive ongoing staff education. Our team approach to care provides you and your loved ones with optimal outcomes.

One call convenience

We make quality care simple. No matter when you call, you will always speak with an experienced home care associate who can ensure coordinated services and continuity of care. Our team’s goal is to provide excellent customer service and care to every patient; a registered nurse is available 24 hours a day to answer your questions.

Franciscan Home Care named as HomeCare Elite Top Agency for 2016

HomeCare Elite consists of the top 25 percent of all Medicare-certified agencies throughout the United States. Out of 9,406 agencies considered, 2,353 were recognized as “elite” for 2016; including Virginia Mason Franciscan Health Health at Home. Winners are ranked by an analysis of publicly available performance measures in the following areas:

• Quality outcome
• Best practices (process measure) implementation
• Patient experience (Home Health CAHPS® or HHCAHPS)
• Quality improvement and consistency
• Financial performance

The ranking is developed by ABILITY® Network, a leading information technology company helping providers and payers simplify the administrative and clinical complexities of healthcare; and sponsored by DecisionHealth, publisher of: Home Health Line, The Complete Home Health ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Coding Manual and The Home Health Coding Center.