About Us

Welcome to Reading Home & Community Supportive Services website

 

Reading Home & Community Supportive Services is a Home Health Care Agency in Reading, Pennsylvania. We are a privately-owned and operated provider, serving Berks County.

 

Reading Home & Community Supportive Services consists of the most qualified professional home health care team in the industry. Every effort we exert is directed towards our clients’ benefits. You can take peace in the knowledge that all our working personnel has completed the necessary licentiate education, certified for operation, and have gone through a thorough pre-employment procedure inclusive of criminal record and background checks, reference checks, license verification, as well as a necessary drug test.

 

Being in the business of home care, we put great value on your trust, this, being our fuel and motivation to employ with dignity, enthusiasm and master fastidiousness. Seeking external help and letting someone handle your loved one’s welfare is a big stake for someone to risk. It requires a lot to emotional management and investment. It is for this reason that we maintain our spirit burning to meet and exceed your expectations and willfully earn your golden trust.

 

Depending on needs and approval of your attending physician, Reading Home and community Supportive Services may render services to enable you to function independently at home, increase your level of comfort and improve your overall health. 

 

In time of distress and challenge, we are here to let you know that someone is willing to help with genuine compassion. Consider home healthcare from Reading Home & Community Supportive Services today.

 

Purpose

 

• We believe home health services are an essential part of the health delivery system. By providing continuing care to clients in their own homes, home health services minimize the effects of illness, accident, or disability.

 

• Reading Home & Community Supportive Services recognizes the intrinsic worth of aged, diseased and/or disabled persons. We believe the contributions of these persons are no less important than the contributions of other members of our society. Reading Home & Community Supportive Services recognizes that these persons are entitled to retain or regain their maximum participation in society.

 

• We recognize that the aging process is an unavoidable part of life. We understand chronic disease and disability may be part of that process.

 

• In providing care to individuals, Reading Home & Community Supportive Services recognizes that clients and families have inalienable rights to self-determination. They have the right to participate in planning for their care, to make decisions about their health care, and to maintain their independence as long as feasible.

 

• Health education is an integral part of Reading Home & Community Supportive Services program.

 

• Reading Home & Community Supportive Services recognizes that staff behavior, attitudes, knowledge, and understanding have an important influence on helping clients attain and maintain their optimum health.

 

• Therefore, we are committed to the rehabilitation of aged, diseased, and/or disabled individuals within the structure of their home environments, allowing maximum contribution, independence, and retention of self-respect.

 

• When rehabilitation or recovery is not realistic, we commit to providing dying individuals with appropriate care and coordinated services, supporting their dignity and self-respect.

 

Objective

To provide:

 

• A coordinated team approach to therapeutic, rehabilitative, and supportive health care services using skilled nursing, home health aides, medical social services, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, nutritional consultation and a system of referral, follow up, and evaluation.

 

• Home health care services and training, which allow clients and their Caregivers to assume personal responsibility for clients’ health and personal needs.

 

• Review vehicles for continuous examination of the care clients are receiving from the agency.

 

• Educational opportunities within the health care system for employees through an ongoing in-service program, short term training for students, and participation in professional organizations.

 

• Coordinated liaison with health and social service to meet the needs of the community through joint efforts, meetings, and community awareness programs.

 

• A physical work environment conducive to maximum employee performance.

 

• To recruit and retain highly qualified personnel through:

  • Screening

  • Testing

  • Evaluation

  • Probationary employment status

  • A competitive compensation policy structured to recognize responsibility.