To get Medicare home health care:

1. Your doctor must decide you need medical care in your home, and make a plan for your care at home; and
2. You must need at least one of the following: intermittent (not full time) skilled nursing care, or physical therapy or speech language pathology services; and
3. You must be homebound.  This means you are normally unable to leave home.  Being homebound means that leaving home is a major effort.  When you leave home, it must be infrequent, for a short time, or to get medical care; and
4. The home health agency caring for you must be approved by the Medicare Program (Lutheran Senior Services Home Health is Missouri state-licensed and Medicare Certified.)   

Medicare guidelines from: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services CMS publication - 10969