Neighbors Home Care

A Registered Nurse will visit with the client and his/her family to make the initial assessment in order to determine the client's needs for paraprofessional assistance.  The Nurse will coordinate the care for the client with his/her physician and family to provide continuity of client care.  The Nurse will then develop a plan of care for the paraprofessional to follow.

Services rendered by our paraprofessionals are supervised by the Nurse to make sure the aide is performing his/her duties as indicated by the plan of care.

Neighbors Home Care employs Home Health Aides and Personal Care Workers.  All of our Home Health Aides and Personal Care Workers must have a valid New York State approved certificate, meet all the health requirements per New York State regulations, and exhibit a caring and sympathetic attitude towards working with people.Based on the initial nursing assessment and the client's needs, a plan of care will be established that will determine what tasks the paraprofessional will perform.

The paraprofessional is able to assist the client with activities of daily living, which can include bathing, shaving, toileting, dressing, mouth care, hair care, ordinary care of nails, walking and transfer activities, grocery shopping, preparing meals and assisting the client with eating; as well as light housekeeping duties in the client's areas (such as changing bed linens, dusting and vacuuming, tidying the kitchen, washing dishes, tidying the bathroom and client's bedroom, and doing the laundry).

They are also able to accompany the client to medical appointments and on errands.  Although New York State regulations do not allow paraprofessionals to administer medications, the paraprofessional can remind the client to take his/her self-administered medications as prescribed.

Paraprofessionals are not allowed to change sterile dressings, administer an enema, irrigate a colostomy, perform a gastric levage, administer medications, apply heat or cold treatments, or provide any health care services not listed on the plan of care.

A companion can sit with a client in an institutional setting to offer comfort while he/she is in the hospital, nursing home, or assisted living facility. In the home care setting, they can escort a client to health care provider appointments. Companions are not allowed to perform any hands-on or personal care duties.