Millcreek Home Health and Hospice

Millcreek Home Health and Hospice is dedicated to providing the most compassionate, professional home health and hospice care for you and your loved ones throughout the greater Salt Lake Valley.

HealthInsight, the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization for Utah, ranks Millcreek Home Health and Hospice in the top 97th percentile for home health agencies nationwide. This ranking is the highest percentage of any home health agency ranked by HealthInsight listed in Salt Lake City. This ranking has earned Millcreek Home Health and Hospice an annual HealthInsight Quality Award for Utah for eight consecutive years (2007-2014). These accomplishments reflect the intimate and patient-oriented health care Millcreek Home Health and Hospice provides.

Millcreek Home Health and Hospice offers patients professional care without the taxing effort of leaving home for outpatient treatment. In the comfort of their own home, patients retain their sense of independence while improving their condition. Millcreek’s skilled team of Register Nurses, Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists and Home Health Aides design care around the patient’s unique needs and environment. Millcreek Home Health and Hospice recommends initiating home health care in a patient’s home, the earlier the better—very often this approach makes rehabilitation far more successful and preventing hospitalizations.

Millcreek Home Health and Hospice provides a wealth of services to care for our patients. One such service, Home Physical Therapy, focuses on improving function, strength, gait, and balance to improve patient safety—all in the comfort of their own homes. Patients learn the correct use of assistive devices and other tools for improving balance and mobility—this is profoundly helpful for those who find leaving the home physically and emotionally taxing.

Hospice care is a compassionate approach to end of life care. It is our goal at Millcreek Home Health and Hospice to help our patients live life fully, while maintaining dignity and hope in the face of life limiting illness. Millcreek Home Health and Hospice is dedicated to empowering our patients by identifying their participation as an integral part of the treatment process.

There is no cost to you when using Millcreek Home Health and Hospice because all Hospice services are covered 100 % by Medicare, Medicaid and most insurance plans. Millcreek Home Health and Hospice provides palliative care, which is the medical term used to describe the comfort achieved by patients through effective pain control and symptom management. Hospice and palliative care is aimed at improving comfort and providing dignity, not reversing the underlying disease.

Millcreek Home Health and Hospice offers hope for personal dignity and freedom from fears of isolation, abandonment, loneliness and physical pain. We understand we are guests in our patients’ homes, and we take this privilege very seriously.

At Millcreek Home Health and Hospice, we are deeply invested in improving quality of life for both our patients and their families through the administration of comprehensive home health and hospice care.

Millcreek Home Health & Hospice offers a highly skilled and experienced medical care team that includes section:

– Physician Medical Directors who make house calls. Two of them are certified in Hospice and Palliative Medicine.
– A Certified Wound Specialist who provides in-home treatment.
– A team of exceptional Registered Nurses with extensive experience and specialized training.
– Two Certified Lymphedema Therapists who provide in-home treatment.
– An incomparable core of therapists, specializing in physical, occupational therapy and speech therapy.
– A comprehensive social work department and Staff Chaplain.
– A remarkable team of compassionate certified home health and hospice care personal aides.