Excellence at
Home

Providing the highest quality of care to our Southern Indiana families, from the comfort of home

Home Health Services

At Carefirst Rehab Home Health Services, our licensed and experienced therapists, nurses and home health aides will work with you, your physicians and your family to develop an individualized plan of treatment specific to your needs and meet your personal goals and achieve your highest level of potential.

Home Therapy and Rehabilitation

Our Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapists provide in-home therapy services to expedite the recovery process from illness or injury. Our highly-skilled Physical and Occupational Therapists will come to your home to provide therapeutic exercises, balance improvement, gait training, and instruction on the use of assistive devices.

Improving Speech and Swallowing

For some patients, speaking and swallowing problems can be vital to their overall health and communication ability. Through performing swallowing evaluations and recommendations to modify diet and food intake, our speech therapist is able to promote better quality of living for our patients in the home.

Recent Stroke Recovery

After surviving a stroke episode, most may experience decreased mobility on the affected side of their body. Our clinicians will work with you or your loved one to help you progress towards your goal of regaining your previous functional level and/or achieve your maximum rehabilitation potential, through performing and recommending various therapeutic exercises that you can do in the comfort of your own home.

Cardiac Rehab

In-home cardiovascular rehabilitation aims to help individuals who are suffering, or those that are at risk, from heart disease through performing therapy exercises focusing on reducing the risk of future cardiovascular episodes and ultimately improve the patients’ overall health. We will collaborate with your family members, caregivers, doctors and other healthcare providers involved in your care to generate a plan of treatment specific towards your condition.

Pulmonary Rehab

For patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and other lung-related diseases, pulmonary rehab can be beneficial for patients as it aims to help improve overall pulmonary function. After discharging from an inpatient setting, we can continue pulmonary rehab at home through continuously educating the patient about the disease, applying breathing techniques, teaching energy conservation techniques and performing exercise training.

Nurse On Call

Our primary purpose is to give you the quality skilled services you need. We offer a 24-hour phone line so you can contact us for any medical need. You may contact us any time should you have a clinical question or have an emergency. Our Registered Nurse will be there to take your call.

Part of our goal is to educate our patients about their disease processes, potential complications, and the importance of being proactively involved in their own health care.

Everyday, we strive to offer compassionate and high quality home health care with unparalleled customer service that is patient-centered.

The needs of our valued patients and their families will always be our highest priority.

Maintenance

Maintenance therapy is a form of intervention that has a focus towards maintaining, preventing or slowing down unnecessary decline in a patient’s health condition and functional level. The goal of a maintenance program is to minimize the impact of a medical condition. Under this therapy program, our qualified therapists will assess the patient in the home and establish a maintenance program fit for the patient’s needs.

Wound Care

Our clinicians are wound care trained. We want to ensure that you receive the special care and treatment your doctor recommends. Our clinicians will come to your home to provide the necessary wound care that you need, as ordered by your doctor. We will train and educate your family members and/or caregiver/s and provide all information required to help heal your wound/s and to prevent any new wound formation and potentially decrease hospital stays.

Pain Management

Our therapists and nurses work hand-in-hand to provide patient education, instructing the patient on proper ways to use medications, including pain medications, at home. Our clinicians are also trained to assess the patient’s level of pain by asking a series of standard questions to accurately measure it. Vital signs will also be monitored regularly.

Medication

We understand the significance of being compliant with taking medications to our patients’ health. With Carefirst Home Health, our clinicians are trained to perform ongoing medication monitoring to determine their actions, indications, special precautions, patient’s response to therapy, side effects, allergies and contraindications, and to ensure appropriateness and continuity of care and to identify the potential complications from the therapy being provided.

Meet our Home Health Team

Russell Porras

Our Carefirst journey is continuous progress that is geared towards a better tomorrow for our patients, our team, and our community.

Russell Porras - President, Owner

Erika Starck

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

Erika Starck - Director of Clinical Operations

Tracy Franklin

“Sometimes I inspire my patients; More often they inspire me.”

Tracy Franklin - Clinical Outcomes Manager

Andy Malvar

Andy Malvar - Director of Administrative and Business Operations

Russell Porras

Our Carefirst journey is continuous progress that is geared towards a better tomrrow for our patients, our team, and our community.

Inno Espende - Event Manager

Erika Starck

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

Trina Mercado - Event Manager

Tracy Franklin

“Sometimes I inspire my patients; More often they inspire me.”

Divine Lopez - Human Resources Manager

Kristina Porras

Kristina Porras - Supplies and Logistics

Kamini Doshi

I want to inspire people. I want my patients to look at me and say, "because of you I didn't give up".

Kamini Doshi - Physical Therapist

Emily Smith

Coming into clients homes, you sometimes feel like you become part of the family. Allowing people to remain active and present in their home with their loved ones is so meaningful to the patient and to me."

Emily Smith - Physical Therapist

Brooke Arndt

My passion is connecting with others on a personal level to optimize their rehab potential and gain lifelong relationships.

Brooke Arndt - Physical Therapy Assistant

Meranda Darden

"I love helping people overcome the obstacles in their life to achieve their personal best."

Meranda Darden - Physical Therapy Assistant

Lisa Hutchins

“It is such a blessing to play a small role in our patients success on their road to recovery. Working in their home provides them with a safe and familiar place to heal, become stronger and to get back to doing what they love.”

Lisa Hutchins - Physical Therapy Assistant

Maria Miller

Maria Miller - Physical Therapy Assistant

Dolly Gray

Speech language pathology is more than just my career, it is my passion. To teach, to love, to guide, and to encourage.

Dolly Gray - Speech Therapist

Lindsey Bradshaw

When a patient smiles at you and takes your hand and says thank you for taking care of me and making me feel better, you realize that all things you do in nursing is worth if for a moment like that. Nursing to me is not a job but a privilege.

Lindsey Bradshaw - Registered Nurse

LorieVi Masuecos

Care for one...that's love! Care for all...that's nursing.

LorieVi Masuecos - Registered Nurse

AnnMarie Harris

AnnMarie Harris - Registered Nurse