Horizon Healthcare Services - Comprehensive Infusion Services

At Horizon Healthcare Services, our infusion therapy services involve more than just compounding and delivering intravenous medications. Clinical pharmacy excellence serves as the basis for a range of therapies provided to treat a variety of disease states. Horizon's range of services includes 24-hour availability of pharmacists and specially trained home infusion nurses, care coordination, infusion compounding, infusion equipment and supplies, delivery, billing, patient and family education programs, flexible, customized treatment programs, skilled reimbursement specialists, and a rigorous performance improvement program. HHS also provides ongoing monitoring and review of treatment plans and program modification per physician caregiver at critical points in the treatment plan.

Experienced pharmacists compound therapies at our Horizon Healthcare Services pharmacy located in Lancaster, PA. Based on consultation with the referring physicians, our pharmacists and the patient's home infusion nurse develop a patient and family education program to achieve a level of self-care appropriate for each individual patient. The team continues to monitor patient compliance and response to treatment, offering 24 hour access to Horizon Healthcare Services' pharmacists and nurses.

Horizon Healthcare Services Therapies

Antibiotics
Osteomyelitis
Cellulitis
Wound Infection
Diabetic Foot Ulcer
Endocarditis
Sternal Infections
Septic Arthritis
Respiratory Tract Infections
Lyme Disease
Pre-dental Prophylaxis
Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
Chronic UTI Pyelonephritis
Cystic Fibrosis
Peritonitis

Fluids for Hydration
Dehydration
Vomiting, intractable diarreha or fistulas
Cerebrovascular Accident
Short Bowel Syndrome
GI-dysfunction
Hyperemesis
Pancreatitis

Chronic Pain Management
Continuous Infusion and/or Patient Controlled Analgesis (PCA):
- Subcutaneous
- Intravenous
- Epidural
- Intrathecal

Acute Pain Management
Daily surgery post-op (24-48°)
Cholelithiasis
Renal Calculi

Steroid Therapy
Multiple Sclerosis
Optic nerve neuritis

Total Parenteral & Enteral Nutrition
Short Bowel Syndrome
Malabsorption Syndrome
Crohn's Disease
Cancer or Radiation Enteritis
Ischemic Bowel Infarction
Pancreatitis
Motility Disorders
AIDS Enterotherapy

Laboratory Testing
Venipunctures
Blood Studies
Electrolytes
Cultures: blood, wound, throat
Urinalysis
Therapeutic drug monitoring
Labs via
Ports/HICKMAN®catheter
/GROSHONG®catheter
/PICC

Chemotherapy
IV Push Therapies-various agents
Continuous Infusion:
- Fluorouracil
- Floxuridine
- Doxorubicin
- Vinblastine and others

Central Line Care
Routine monthly flushing
Alteplase for sluggish lines
PICC insertions (inserted by PICC certified nurses)

Subcutaneous Injection: Teaching
Erythropoietin
- Dialysis
- Pre-dialysis
- Anemia of AIDS patients on AZT
Colony Stimulating Factors:
- G-CSF
- GM-CSF
Interferon

Cancer Patient Management
Chemotherapy
Antiemetic Therapy-Zofran®, Kytril®
Colony Stimulating Factors
Total Parenteral & enteral nutrition
Pain Management
Antibiotics, antifungals, antivirals
Hydration Therapy
Interferon

Inotropics
(Dobutamins, Dopamine)
Chronic congestive heart failure

Immune Globulin Intravenous
(Gammagard®, etc)
Antibody-deficiency syndrome
Hypogammaglobulinemia
Chemotherapy
AIDS

Alpha-Antitrypsin Deficiency
Prolastin® (alpha-proteinase inhibitor)

AIDS Patient Management
Pentamidine IV/Aerosolized
Acyclovir
Amphotericin B
Ganciclovir
TPN
Hydration Therapy
Erythropoietin
Pain Management
Foscarnet
Cidofivir

Iron Overload Therapy
Deferoxamine (Desferal®)

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