A: Home health care is part of a growing national trend to allow patients to remain in the comfort and familiar surroundings of their own homes for medical treatment during times of illness, disability and recuperation.

Patients who receive treatment at home get well more quickly and spend less money doing so than patients who must stay in a hospital to receive treatment.

Home health professionals provide high-quality health care services at home for people of all ages, helping them lead more normal lives -- even though some must receive constant medical treatment.

Staff provide care in many ways: they help terminally ill children; provide high-tech intravenous infusion services, such as nutritional and antibiotic treatments; provide physical, respiratory, occupational and speech therapy; and more.

Nurses, home health aides and rehabilitation professionals are available 24 hours a day to care for patients who have a range of health problems, as well as maternity and well baby services.

For referral to a UA physician, please call University Health Connection, (520) 694-8888.