Staff Writer
Aroostook Home Health Care and Valley Home Health Care held a ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house for their new location on South Main Street in Caribou on Thursday, Dec. 13. The new 4,000 square foot location will better accommodate the staff of 70 employees. Aroostook Home Health Care and Valley Home Health Care served over 1,000 Aroostook County residents in the past year between the three offices in Fort Kent, Caribou and Houlton. All three locations have recently expanded and currently employ 175 Aroostook County locals.
Aroostook Home Health Care provides in-home services to clients who are: disabled, bed or wheelchair bound, unable to perform daily tasks such as doing laundry or running errands, recovering after discharge from a hospital, nursing home or rehabilitation facility. Aroostook Home Health Care also provides respite for family caregivers.
Aroostook Home Health Care provides skilled and private duty nurses to clients to give hands-on care, aiding in bathing and toileting, medication management, light housekeeping, cooking, feeding, as well as bed to chair transfers for wheel chair bound clients. The local business also provides companionship as well as supervision and guidance when requested.
Aroostook Home Health Care also recently began offering children’s services for mentally handicapped youth. Another recent addition to Aroostook Home Health Care’s list of services is a Lifeline service, with personal emergency response units. For clients this means help is only the touch of a button away in the event of an emergency in the home.
In June of 2002 Aroostook Home Health Care purchased Valley Home Health Care.
“We purchased Valley Home Health Care to branch out and provide more comprehensive services to our clients,” said Tanya Sleeper, executive director.
Through Valley Home Health Care the local health care provider offers a number of extra services to clients which include: psychiatric nursing services, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech pathology and social services.
Valley Home Health Care is a good fit for clients who: have recently had surgery and are returning home, have recently been diagnosed with a new condition, or who have had a significant change in an existing condition, as well as clients requiring wound or ulcer treatment, or clients who need IV treatment at home.
Aroostook Home Health Care was established in 1983 and is licensed by the state with no deficiencies.
For more information about Aroostook Home Health Services call the Caribou location at 492-8290, the Fort Kent location at 834-2990 or the Houlton location at 532-9971. For more information about Valley Home Health Care call the Caribou location at 492-1149, the Fort Kent location at 834-3756 or the Houlton location at 532-9686.
