1. By: Britney Volek

2.  Define Home Health
 What Percent of PTAs work in Home Health
 Salary Range
 Diagnosis
 Treatments
 Equipment
 Advanced Skill, Training, or Recognition
needed to work in Home Health

3. Home health is care/services provided to a
patient in the convenience of their home by a
professional caregiver

4.  Regionally
◦ 6.6%
 Table 8. Facility/Setting
◦ Acute care hospital 8.6 %
◦ Sub-acute rehab hospital (in-patient) 4.8 %
◦ Health system or hospital based outpatient
◦ facility or clinic 17.3 %
◦ Private out-patient office or group practice 33.1
%
◦ SNF/ECF/ICF 17.9 %
◦ Patients home/Home care 6.6 %
◦ School System (preschool/primary/secondary)
1.4 %
◦ Academic Institution (post-secondary) 5.0%
◦ Health and Wellness Facility .4 %
◦ Industry .2 %
◦ Other 4.8 %

5. Full Time PTA in Home Health
Median $53,500 annually
Salary will depend on the type of degree a person has
obtained
Higher % Masters
Bachelors
Lower % Associates
Salary will also depend on the PTAs experience

6.  Total Joint Replacements
 Fractures
 CVA/Stroke
 Progressive Neurological
Conditions
 Fall Risk
 Dementia
 Chronic Pain
 Incontinence
 Wounds
 COPD
 Heart Failure

7.  Gait Training
 Transfer Training
 Home Exercise Program Development
 Home Exit Management
 Fall Prevention
 Neuropathy Treatment
 Wound Care
 Incontinence Treatment
 Pain Management
 Progressive Resistive Exercise

8.  Factors
◦ What the patient is being treated for
◦ Depends on the environment
 Space/Size

9.  Bandages
 Platforms
 Therapy Balls

10.  Massage Cream/Gel
 Vital Sign Tools
 Portable Electrotherapy Machine

11. A PTA should have learned all requirements to treat
patients in their education
A PTA can always expand their knowledge by going
to State meetings or Classes/Seminars
The mind can never stop learning

12. Information
 http://www.apta.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Workforce_Salaries_and_
Stats&Template=/MembersOnly.cfm&NavMenuID=455&ContentID=71470
&DirectListComboInd=D&Token=BB9AF745-6371-4B26-9428-
08C47CC355EA
 http://www.homehealthsection.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticle
nbr=11
 http://www.homehealthsection.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&su
barticlenbr=14
 http://wfnetwork.bc.edu/glossary_entry.php?term=Home%20Health%20Ca
re,%20Definition(s)%20of&area=All
Pictures
 http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&biw=1318&bih=552&tbs=
isch%3A1&sa=1&q=physical+theapist+with+patient&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&o
q=&gs_rfai=