What Types of Home Care Services Are Accredited?

1. Provide Personal Care Services

A certified homemaker-home health aide can be the key which enables the patient to stay home and receive care in comfortable and familiar surroundings. Many of the services provided by certified homemaker-home health aides center around activities which many people take for granted until illness, age or an accident make performing them impossible. These Personal Care Home Care services include activities such as:

- Personal care, bathing, and hygiene
- Grocery shopping, meal planning, preparation, and feeding
- Toileting and elimination
- Transfers and ambulation
- Assistance with therapeutic or exercise regimes
- Laundry and changing bed linens
- Light housekeeping
- Respite care

2. Or, Provide In-Home Skilled Nursing Services

Skilled nursing services are only provided by registered professional nurses (RNs) and licensed practical nurses (LPNs). This means that the patient's level of need requires the knowledge and expertise of a licensed nurse, not an aide or other paraprofessional helper. Also, nursing care is only carried out under specific doctor's orders for that care. The following are examples of skilled nursing services:

- Wound care
- Diabetic teaching
- Injections
- Bladder catheterization
- Tube feedings
- IV infusions
- Ventilator care

For more details about New Jersey home care and accredited home care providers, visit www.cahcnj.org.