Home Health Care in New York

Online, August 19, 2013 (Newswire.com) - In case someone in your family needs long term care or is recovering from a chronic illness, you may need home health care services.
These services range from

Skilled medical care provided by nurses or therapists

Personal care like getting help with bathing, getting dressed

Household support like cooking meals, running errands, cleaning and laundry services

If you are planning to hire a home health care service,you need to be sure that you are getting quality care.

There are some questions that you can ask to make sure that you are making the right choices here.

Three Important questions

1. Are you licensed, certified and experienced?
Most states will require any health care agency or service provider to be licensed and certified. Ask about the experience of the agency and try to get some references before hiring. You can always ask family and friends and doctors for recommendations.

2. What level of quality care you provide?
Probe on how the agency hires and selects the caregivers. And more important, are these caregivers licensed and have their background checked? The employees should make you feel comfortable and should also be friendly and helpful.

3. What are your costs?
Get detailed explanations of all the complete costs associated with home care and does the agency have a payment plan available. It is also essential to ask if any of their services are covered under insurance. Just makes sure that you are comfortable with the payments and the fees.

You can get almost any type of health care for your home. But it is more important to find the right agency and get quality care at affordable costs. There are certain health insurance plans or government programs that will cover certain home care services.