FAQs
What is the difference between Home Health Care and Personal Care?
What is home health care?
Home health care can help you live independently in your home and is provided to those who have a medical condition that can be helped by the skill of a nurse including wound care, help with medications, injections, monitoring a serious illness and patient and caregiver education. Additional skilled services such as physical, occupational and speech-language therapy may also be part of a patient care plan and may include training in walking and climbing stairs, rehabilitative exercises and speech and language therapy.
What is the difference between home health care and personal care? 
As described in the first answer, home health care requires a skilled need that a nurse or physical therapist can provide. Personal care (or private duty care) is usually provided by a home health aide and does not require a nurse. Personal care is an option when the person needs help at home with bathing, dressing, moving around or meal preparation.
Who pays for home health care?
Home health care is covered by Medicare, Medicaid and many private insurance companies, including HMO’s. When insurance does not cover a needed service, fees are adjusted based on ability to pay, we will help you find out what your insurance will cover.
When to choose Hospice? 
It may be time to consider Hospice when curative treatment is no longer an option, or the emphasis changes from curing the illness to comfort, symptom control, and enhancing the quality of life. It’s also time to consider Hospice when the patient knows they have a limited life expectancy and his/her physician thinks hospice can help. When hospice comes into a patient’s life early, the patient can live their remaining days at home with their loved ones in familiar surroundings.