Home Care After Surgery in Sacramento
A caregiver meets you at home on discharge day and helps with getting up, showering, meals and rides to follow-up visits. Book a few days or a few weeks.
Help With What's Hard Right Now
Non-medical care that fits around your doctor's plan and your home health visits.
Call us before discharge and we'll talk through the help you'll need.
We Started With One Hard Week
Our founder, Dana Tamsett, was a hospital discharge planner for eleven years. She saw people sent home on a Friday with nobody to help them up the front steps. So we do one job. We help in the first weeks after a hospital stay.
- ✓Care that starts the day you come home
- ✓The same one or two caregivers each visit
- ✓A text update to family after every visit
- ✓Book by the day or the week, and change it any time
What Help Usually Looks Like
Every plan is different. This is how the first weeks go for most of the people we care for.
Discharge Day
Your caregiver is at the house before you arrive, with the bed ready and a light meal on.
Days 2 To 4
Longer visits while moving around is hardest, with help to shower, dress and walk indoors.
The First Week
A ride to the first follow-up visit, and the groceries put away.
Week Two And After
Visits get shorter as you do more yourself, and we step back when you're ready.
Steady Hands For The Everyday
Short Walks Outside
Company on the first walks around the block, at your pace, once your doctor says it's time.
Reminders On Time
Your organizer is filled by family or the pharmacy. We remind you at each time on the list.
Company Over Tea
Recovery is slow and days at home can feel long. A chat over a cup of tea helps.
Call Us Before Discharge Day
With a day's notice we can usually have a caregiver at home when you arrive.
From First Call To First Visit
Call Or Send A Note
Tell us the hospital, the expected discharge date and what the doctor said about getting around.
A Short Care Plan
A care planner talks with you or the family and writes down what help is needed and when.
Meet Your Caregiver
We introduce your caregiver by phone, then they arrive on the day you come home.
Adjust As You Go
Change the hours or add an overnight with one call.
A Safer House For The First Weeks
On the first visit your caregiver walks through the house with you or the family. Loose rugs come up and a nightlight goes in the hallway. The things you use most come down to waist height.
- ✓A clear path from bed to bathroom
- ✓A shower chair and grab bar if you have them
- ✓Phone and water within reach of your chair
- ✓A list of anything worth buying or renting
Our Part And Your Nurse's Part
We're a non-medical home care agency. We work alongside home health nurses and therapists, never instead of them.
We help with daily life
Bathing, dressing, meals, housework, errands, rides and company.
We remind, we don't give medicine
Medication reminders on the schedule your nurse or pharmacist sets.
We follow the discharge notes
We follow the lifting limits and walking instructions from your care team.
We keep you up to date
Our caregivers follow your family's care plan, and we tell the family how each visit went.
After-Surgery Care Questions
How soon can care start?
With 24 hours' notice we can usually have a caregiver at the house on discharge day. Call as soon as you know the date, even if it might change.
How long do most people need help?
Most of our clients book one to four weeks. Visits are longest in the first few days and get shorter as you get back on your feet.
Does Medicare pay for this?
Medicare's home health benefit covers skilled care your doctor orders, such as nursing and therapy visits. It generally doesn't pay for help with bathing, meals and housework when that's the only help you need. Families usually pay privately or use long-term care insurance. Check your plan for the details.
How much does it cost?
Our hourly rate starts at $36, with a four-hour minimum visit. Overnights are a flat rate. You get the price in writing before care starts.
Can you help if I live alone?
Yes. Many of our clients live alone. We can cover the first nights, check in by phone between visits and send updates to a family member you name.
Are your caregivers trained?
Every caregiver is background-checked and registered as a home care aide, as California requires. Each one is trained in safe transfers and fall prevention before their first visit.
Tell Us When You're Coming Home
A care planner will call you back the same business day to plan the first visit.
- Visit us2730 Capitol Ave, Sacramento, CA 95816
- Call us(916) 555-0147
- Email ushello@tamsettcare.com