Families searching for qualified home health care should consider hiring from home health aide agencies. When you hire from a home health aide agency, you ensure that your loved ones receive companionship, elder care, personal care and proper housekeeping. Hiring from home health aide agencies may sometimes require a fee in order to place an ad out to agencies but we feel the reward is well worth the risk. Some home health aide agencies on the other hand will allow you to hire directly from their stable of qualified home health aides.
Hiring from a home health aide agency also ensures that the client will recieve a high standard of care versus simply hiring a friend or another random person. Questions you should ask yourself when deciding to hire from an agency are as follows.
Home Health Aide Agencies hiring questions
What is the hourly cost of hiring an HHA via your agency?
How flexible are your home health aides in terms of schedule and job duties?
Are your HHA’s loyal and accountable?
How consistent will the level of care be?
How safe and secure will the home health aide be?
What is the expertise level of an agency staffed HHA?
Home Health Aide Agencies
It is possible that someone hired via a generic internet classified ad, or via word of mouth will meet all of these standards but when you hire from an agency, you can rest assured that these standards will be met by the assigned home health aide.
Home Health Aide Agencies worker types
Home health aide agencies can be broken down by the type of care they provide. It comes down to two types of care: Custodial (skilled) or Supportive (unskilled). Supportive services provided by un trained and non-medical home health care agencies offer assistance with personal care and logistics such as grooming, bathing, dressing and also help with things like cooking, nutrition, housekeeping and other errands. These supportive aids may at time help with self administered medication application, ambulation, exercise and transportation. They often time work off of the orders of a skilled HHA or registered nurse.
Skilled providers on the other hand are employed by medical home health agencies. They offer nursing care, occupational and physical therapy, speech therapy and other more medically indicated types of care. Following specificly laid out plans with the supervision of a skilled nurse or therapist, custodial home health aides help clients and patients to bypass unnecessary hospitalization, hasten hospital discharge and enable elders to stay at home.
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