Home health care is a range of medical services provided in the home for an illness or an injury. A nurse changes a dressing at the kitchen table. A physical therapist works on the stairs the patient actually has to climb every day. A speech therapist sits down with the whole family instead of a clinic waiting room.
It is ordered by a physician, delivered by licensed clinicians, and usually covered by Medicare and other insurance when the patient is homebound.
Recovery sticks better in the place where the person has to live it — their own stairs, their own bathroom, their own routine.