What Makes A Moment’s Notice Health Care Stand Out Amongst Everyone Else?
A Moment’s Notice Health Care stands out for several reasons:
• Personalized Care: We provide individualized care plans tailored to each patient’s needs, ensuring that every client receives the attention and support they require. This includes Dementia and Alzheimer’s care.
• Experienced Staff: Our team consists of highly qualified and compassionate caregivers, including Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) and Home Health Aides (HHAs), who are dedicated to the well-being of their patients.
• Comprehensive Services: We offer a wide range of services, from personal care and companionship to homemaker services and live-in care, allowing seniors to age in place comfortably.
• Locally Owned and Operated: Being a family-owned business, we have a deep commitment to the community and a personal touch that larger agencies might lack.
• Long-standing Reputation: Established in 1974, we have decades of experience in providing high-quality home health care.
• 24/7 Availability: We are available around the clock, ensuring that help is always just a phone call away.
• Our philosophy is based on the dignity and worth of the individual, and they strive to treat every patient with respect and compassion. We treat everyone like family.
What Is Home Care?
Generally, home care is appropriate whenever a person prefers to stay at home but needs ongoing care that cannot easily or effectively be provided solely by family and friends. More and more older people, electing to live independent, non-institutionalized lives, are receiving home care services as their physical capabilities diminish. Younger adults who are disabled or recuperating from acute illness are choosing home care whenever possible. Chronically ill infants and children are receiving sophisticated medical treatment in their loving and secure home environments. Adults and children diagnosed with terminal illness also are being cared for at home, receiving compassion and maintaining dignity at the end of life.
What Is Non-Skilled In-Home Health Care?
Non-skilled in-home care refers to help with activities of daily living, and other non-medical services. The term “non-skilled” is used to differentiate care from home healthcare services that patients may receive from a nurse.
What Does Activities Of Daily Living Mean?
Activities of Daily Living is a term used when discussing care for the elderly or the disabled. Activities of daily living are duties a person needs to do in order to be safe. As we age, care may be required to help a family member or a patient called ADLs. Our home care services include the following activities of daily living (ADL’s):
Walking and wheelchair assistance
Bathing, grooming, and dressing assistance
Medication reminders
Fall prevention and personal safety
Status reports to family members
Incontinence and toilet assistance
24/7 monitoring after hospitalization
Housekeeping
Meal preparation
Laundry and bedding
Groceries and errands
Transportation
Light exercise and outdoor activity
Community engagement
Companionship
What’s The Difference Between Skilled And Non-Skilled Care?
The difference between skilled and non-skilled care comes down to one factor – medical need. Skilled nurses provide medical assistance with medication, wound care, and other recovery and medical needs. Non-skilled, or home care, providers assist with the everyday care and needs of seniors.
Does Medicare Pay For Non-Skilled Home Care?
Traditional Medicare typically does not cover non-skilled home care services. Medicare primarily covers medically necessary services, such as part-time or intermittent skilled nursing care, physical therapy, and other skilled services.
However, if you are receiving skilled care, Medicare may cover some non-skilled services, such as help with personal activities like bathing or dressing, but only if these services are necessary due to your illness or injury.
What’s The Difference Between An Agency And A Registry?
In Florida, home health care agencies and home care registries (also known as nurse registries) differ in several key ways:
Employment Status:
Home Health Care Agencies: These agencies employ their caregivers. This means they handle payroll taxes, insurance, and other HR-related tasks.
Registries: Registries connect you with independent contractors. They do not employ the caregivers directly.
Training and Supervision:
Home Health Care Agencies: Caregivers receive regular training and supervision. The agency is responsible for ensuring the quality-of-care provided.
Registries: Registries do not provide training or supervision for the caregivers they refer.
Insurance and Liability:
Home Health Care Agencies: Agencies provide workers’ compensation, liability, and liability insurance for their employees.
Registries: Registries do not provide insurance coverage for the independent contractors they refer.
How Do I Know What Services My Senior Loved One Needs?
Home health care, or skilled nursing, services are requested by your health care provider. If your senior’s doctor has indicated that they need in-home nursing services, we can work with the doctor and referral services to set up necessary appointments.
Often, your loved one will need more than just home medical care, especially if they are recovering from surgery or managing a chronic illness. Our home health care aides can do it all – from managing medication injections to meal preparation and everything in between. We tailor all of your senior’s home care and health care services to their needs.
Can I Use A Long-Term Care Policy for Payment of Home Care Expenses?
Each Long-Term Care Insurance company’s policies spells out how many ADL’s (Activities of Daily Living) must be provided to enable the coverage. The policy will state the daily benefit and the exclusion period. Meaning, how many days you must pay for before the policy payments start. You should verify directly with the insurance policy provider.
We help facilitate opening an insurance claim with the long-term care insurance provider and the patient. Common terms such as Elimination Periods, Monthly or Daily Benefit, Care Advisory Services, Stay at Home Benefits and Assistance with Daily Living Requirements are discussed as part of the intake process.
Can A Companion Help With Self-administration Of Medicine?
Home health aides (HHAs) and certified nursing assistants (CNAs) that are trained can only assist a client with medication reminders when the medications are in its previously dispensed, prescription labeled container or over-the-counter medication that has directions per State of Florida law. A Homemaker/Companion can only remind a client to take their medicine.
Do I Need A Prescription From My Doctor In Order To Hire A Caregiver For Personal Care At Home?
Hiring a licensed caregiver to provide non-medical home care in the home does not require a prescription from a doctor. Often times a physician will write a prescription for a home health aide to assist in conjunction with other services requiring a prescription such as Medicare Home Health Services. Medicare Home Health requires a prescription from a physician.
Can I Get A Ride To A Scheduled Doctor’s Appointment With A Caregiver?
Caregivers have the discretion to drive a client to a doctor’s appointment or any errand in their own vehicle. This is considered part of the care requirement at the initial assessment where the caregiver who accepts the case is aware of the transportation request and agrees to get reimbursed the IRS set amount for mileage reimbursement.
Can My Mom’s Caregiver Help Her With Her Eyedrops?
Under the State of Florida, Certified Nursing Assistants can assist a patient when the patient squeezes the eye drop bottle. The caregiver can assist the patient by holding steady the patient’s arm when they self-administer the eye drops.
Can A Caregiver Cut My Mom’s Finger Nails?
Caregivers can assist a patient with personal grooming. A licensed caregivers can file a patient’s nails down versus nail cutting.
What Is Considered Light Housekeeping?
Light housekeeping is designed for a caregiver to maintain the cleanliness and walking path of the area in the home for their patient. Light housekeeping is wiping down the kitchen countertop after preparing a lunch and wiping down the shower door. Light housekeeping does not mean heavy scrubbing, moving furniture or cleaning out cupboards.