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Start-of-care nursing visit
A full assessment, a home safety walk and a plan you help write.
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Chapter 01 — Courthouse Square, Gainesville, TX
Home health · Gainesville, Texas
Sixty days. One family. A lot of good mornings.
Nurses and therapists who come to your home across Cooke County and the Red River valley, from the first night home to the morning you don't need us. Medicare-certified since 1999.
Chapter one · The first night home
Every recovery has a story. Here's how ours usually go.
It starts the evening you come home. The bag of new prescriptions on the counter, the walker that doesn't fit through the bathroom door, the daughter who has to drive back to Denton in the morning. The next day, our nurse knocks. She sits down at the table and reads every bottle, walks every room and writes down what you want to be doing in sixty days.
The middle chapters are work: therapy in the hallway, wound care at the kitchen table, a phone call at 2 a.m. that a nurse answers. And the last chapter is the one we love: a final visit, a review of everything you've learned, and a hug at the front door. Evelyn Marchetti has been writing those endings in Cooke County since 1999.
— Evelyn Marchetti, RN, MSN, founder
A plan of care is sixty days long. We think of it as a story with a good ending: you, at home, doing the things you love, with people who know how to help you get there.
What sets us apart
Where we shine
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Physical therapy
Strength, balance and walking, practiced on your own floors and steps.
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Self-management teaching
Medications, symptoms and exercises, until you can do them without us.
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Scenes from sixty days
Our team
The people in the story
Evelyn Marchetti, RN, MSN
Founder & Administrator
Dr. Walter Huang, MD
Medical Director
Lorena Vasquez, RN, BSN
Director of Nursing
Sam Whitley, PT, DPT
Therapy Director
Sample family reviews
How their stories ended
Day one, Dad couldn't get to the bathroom alone. Day fifty-two, he drove himself to the domino hall.
The nurse wrote my goal on the refrigerator: Thanksgiving dinner at my own table. I made it.
Sam had me back to walking the square after my knee. Sixty days almost exactly.
Bria got my husband talking again after his stroke. He told me he loved me in week four.
Danielle drove out past Saint Jo twice a week all winter. The wound closed in February.
Martha Jo talked me through Mom's breathing at 3 a.m. We stayed home and she was fine.
The last visit felt like a graduation. The nurse hugged Mama at the door.
Ruben set us up with Meals on Wheels and a church ride before the sixty days ended. That's thinking ahead.
Naomi rearranged my kitchen so I could cook one-handed. I baked a pie for the whole team.
They called two weeks after we were done, just to check. Nobody does that.
Kayla had the first visit booked before we left the hospital in Denton.
Care settings
Where the story takes place
Same nurses, same standards, wherever home is.
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Your own home
Victorian houses near the square and ranch homes out toward Lake Ray Roberts.
- Nursing
- Therapy
- Aide visits
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Farms and country places
Gravel roads past Muenster and Saint Jo are part of every route.
- Rural routes
- Lab draws at home
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Senior apartments
We coordinate with building staff so skilled care comes to your apartment.
- Shared updates
- Medication review
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Assisted living
Skilled nursing and therapy alongside the assisted living team.
- Therapy on site
- Care conferences
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A family member's home
Recovering at your daughter's in Denton? We'll visit you there.
- Caregiver teaching
- Equipment setup
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On video, between visits
Quick check-ins when a full visit isn't needed.
- Same-day calls
- Wound photo review
Admissions
From hospital to home, handled
One intake coordinator guides your family from the first call to the first week.
- We call the hospital and get the orders
- We verify Medicare or insurance coverage
- We deliver equipment before you get home
- Your nurse writes your sixty-day goal at the first visit
- We call after the first week to check how it's going
- 1999first visit from the square
- 60 daysin a typical plan of care
- 4counties along the Red River
- 24/7a registered nurse on the line
Ratings & recognition · sample
- Community Choice · Best Home Health Agency
- Regional Business Journal · Best Places to Work
- Area Agency on Aging · Community Partner
- County Chamber · Business of the Year
- Rural Health Association · Partner
- Veterans Coalition · Community Partner
- Regional Hospital Network · Preferred Partner
- Hometown Newspaper · Readers' Favorite
- Family Caregiver Coalition · Partner
Now hiring
Good routes, steady caseloads and a team that has been together for years.
Contact
Serving Cooke, Montague, Grayson and Denton counties
- 209 W California Street
Gainesville, TX
Free parking on California Street and around the courthouse square. Ramp at the side door. - (940) 555-0128
- Text us
- welcome@elmforkhh.example
- Elm Fork Home Health
Office & nurse line
- Office, Mon – Fri8a – 5p
- Intake, Sat9a – 1p
- Nurse line for patients24 hours
After hours, the main line rings the on-call RN, who can see your chart.
Let's write a good ending.
Call the office, or ask your doctor or hospital case manager to send the referral to Elm Fork Home Health.