Hughes Health and Wellness is a Board-Certified Nurse Practitioner service that provides residents with convenient, holistic, comprehensive home visits. The goal is to reduce acute hospitalizations by timely managing acute and chronic conditions.

Primary Care Services:

• Physical exams
• Evaluate and treat acute illnesses
• Evaluate and treat exacerbations of chronic conditions
• End-of-life care management
• Blood work and urine sampling to assess for UTI
• X-ray, EKG, and Ultrasound in residents’ apartments

Dementia Care Services:

• Holistic care and treatment of behavioral disturbances in Alzheimer’s and other dementias
• Initial and ongoing cognitive assessments
• Personalized treatment plans tailored to the patient’s individual needs
• Treatment is pharmacological and non-pharmacological in approach
• Physiological, environmental, and communication triggers are identified if present
• The Nurse Practitioner educates the care team on strategies to alleviate and avoid triggers that are contributory or causative factors in behavioral disturbances
• If necessary, and with health care proxy permission, the Nurse Practitioner will prescribe and manage medication(s) to treat behavioral disturbances