Home Health Care
Serving La Palma, CA and surrounding cities in Orange County
Home Health Care in La Palma, CA
How often do visits happen?
Medicare’s answer has a few parts, and it helps to see them together:
- If you qualify, there’s no set limit on the number of home health visits. Care continues as long as your provider keeps ordering it and you keep meeting the conditions.
- “Part-time or intermittent” usually means skilled nursing and home health aide services combined for up to 8 hours a day, with a maximum of 28 hours a week.
- For a short time, if your provider decides it’s needed, you may be able to get more frequent care: under 8 hours a day and up to 35 hours a week.
- Visits follow the doctor’s orders. Our staff should visit as often as your provider orders. (medicare.gov)
In real life, most people get a few visits a week from a nurse or therapist, each lasting under an hour or so, rather than long shifts.
Planning the rest of the day
Because home health isn’t round-the-clock care, it helps to sketch a simple weekly plan with your family:
- Who is home in the mornings when medicines are due?
- Who can drive to follow-up appointments?
- Who can stay overnight for the first few nights, if needed?
Our nurse will help you fill in that plan at the first visit, and we’ll adjust visit times where we can so a family member can be there.
Close-by help
The La Palma Community Center on Walker Street runs the city’s older adult programs. The county’s 2026 senior center list notes recreational classes and information and referral services. It’s a good first call when you need to find meal programs or transportation in the area.Hospitals La Palma families come home from
Besides La Palma Intercommunity Hospital, many La Palma residents are discharged from UCI Health – Los Alamitos or from Providence St. Jude Medical Center in Fullerton. We mention these only as places people come home from. We’re an independent agency.A few things about us
- Every call reaches a real person, around the clock.
- Care can often start within 24 hours.
- Online requests are returned within minutes.
- Families can ask for a Vietnamese-speaking nurse.
- In the CMS (Medicare) October 2026 data release, our home health agency has a Quality of patient care star rating of 5 and an HHCAHPS patient survey summary star rating of 4 (survey period April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2026). You can look us up on Medicare Care Compare.
Related reading
Want help mapping out the first week at home in La Palma? Get in touch.What home health care in La Palma covers
Home health is part-time skilled care at home that a doctor or nurse practitioner orders after an illness, injury, surgery or hospital stay. Medicare Part A and/or Part B usually covers it when the patient is homebound and needs intermittent skilled services, and Medicare Advantage plans offer it with their own approval steps.
Who may be on the care team
- A nurse for medication management, wound care, injections and monitoring of chronic conditions
- Physical, occupational and speech-language therapists for mobility, self-care, communication and swallowing
- A home health aide for bathing and grooming while skilled visits continue
- A medical social worker for benefits questions, caregiver planning and community services
La Palma neighborhoods and nearby hospitals
Our clinicians drive from our office at 13800 Arizona St #200 in Westminster to homes throughout La Palma, from the streets around Central Park on Walker Street to homes along the greenbelt walkway between Valley View Street and Barbi Lane. La Palma Intercommunity Hospital is on Walker Street, and many residents also come home from UCI Health – Los Alamitos on Katella Avenue or West Anaheim Medical Center. 24/7 Care at Home is an independent agency and is not affiliated with these hospitals.
Care in Vietnamese and English
Our staff speaks Vietnamese and English. If a grandparent is more at ease in Vietnamese, ask for a Vietnamese-speaking nurse when care is arranged and we will work to match you, so therapy exercises and medicine changes are clear to everyone in the home.
How referrals work
Physicians, nurse practitioners, hospital case managers and rehab discharge planners can send us a referral. Families can also contact 24/7 Care at Home directly; you do not need a referral to ask questions. We obtain the doctor’s order, confirm Medicare or plan benefits with you, and set up the first visit, when the nurse or therapist reviews medicines, checks stairs and the bathroom, and agrees on goals with you and your doctor. Our agency holds a CMS Care Compare 5-star quality rating and 4-star patient survey rating (Oct 2026).
La Palma home health FAQ
Is there a limit on home health visits?
If you qualify, Medicare does not limit the number of home health visits, while your doctor keeps ordering care.
How many hours a week can care last?
In most cases, skilled nursing and aide services combined can total up to 8 hours a day and 28 hours a week.
Can my parent choose which agency comes to the house?
Yes. Medicare asks the ordering provider to give you a list of agencies that serve your area. Tell the hospital case manager or the doctor’s office which agency you prefer.
Nearby home health pages
More home health pages near La Palma include home health care in Buena Park and home health care in Cypress. You can also read about home health across Orange County, or read this information in Vietnamese: Chăm sóc sức khỏe tại nhà ở La Palma (tiếng Việt).