2. Define Home Health
What Percent of PTAs work in Home Health
Salary Range
Diagnosis
Treatments
Equipment
Advanced Skill, Training, or Recognition
needed to work in Home Health
3. Home health is care/services provided to a
patient in the convenience of their home by a
professional caregiver
4. Regionally
◦ 6.6%
Table 8. Facility/Setting
◦ Acute care hospital 8.6 %
◦ Sub-acute rehab hospital (in-patient) 4.8 %
◦ Health system or hospital based outpatient
◦ facility or clinic 17.3 %
◦ Private out-patient office or group practice 33.1
%
◦ SNF/ECF/ICF 17.9 %
◦ Patients home/Home care 6.6 %
◦ School System (preschool/primary/secondary)
1.4 %
◦ Academic Institution (post-secondary) 5.0%
◦ Health and Wellness Facility .4 %
◦ Industry .2 %
◦ Other 4.8 %
5. Full Time PTA in Home Health
Median $53,500 annually
Salary will depend on the type of degree a person has
obtained
Higher % Masters
Bachelors
Lower % Associates
Salary will also depend on the PTAs experience
7. Gait Training
Transfer Training
Home Exercise Program Development
Home Exit Management
Fall Prevention
Neuropathy Treatment
Wound Care
Incontinence Treatment
Pain Management
Progressive Resistive Exercise
8. Factors
◦ What the patient is being treated for
◦ Depends on the environment
Space/Size
11. A PTA should have learned all requirements to treat
patients in their education
A PTA can always expand their knowledge by going
to State meetings or Classes/Seminars
The mind can never stop learning
