Our Mission
Lucent Health strives to offer the best in home health care by embodying the principles of quality assurance, excellence, reach, and cooperation.
Our Care
We currently offer skilled nursing services as well as rehabilitation services in the area of physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, and medical social work.
Professional Advice
Spinal Muscular Atrophy
August is Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness Month
BY: CDC,
August is the month in which we increase everyone’s awareness of spinal muscular atrophy, which is a group of genetic neuromuscular disorders that cause some muscles to grow weak and waste away. This disease causes loss of a specific type of nerve cell called lower motor neurons, which are in the spinal cord. The loss of these motor neurons causes the muscles to not receive the nerve signals that can make them move. Severity of the disease can be attributed to age of onset, progression, and symptoms. SMA involves the weakness of voluntary muscles. This disease is one of the leading genetic causes of infant mortality and is the 2nd most common severe hereditary disease of infancy after cystic fibrosis.
