Synergy HomeCare
Your family’s well-being is SYNERGY HomeCare’s priority. Our compassionate caregivers are trained in geriatric and disease-related topics and have assisted thousands of families. We help people who want to stay in their home; wherever home may be. Whether your loved one is recovering from surgery, living with Alzheimer’s or needs a little help, we assist our clients maintain their independence and enhance their quality of life.
Johnson Adult Foster Care
Home and Community Based Services Provider, Flexible service plans directed at individual needs and outcome goals.
Esteem Nursing Care Inc
Esteem Nursing Care is an agency that provides a range of alternative home care services for senior citizens and individuals with disabilities through personal care assistants and home health aides. It offers various homemaker, companion, chore, mentoring, private duty nursing, assisted living, and Alzheimer s and dementia care services. Esteem Nursing Care provides 24-hour live-in assistance for constant companionship and assistance. It offers residential-based habilitation services for individuals with mental retardation and related conditions. The agency s personal care assistants provide help in the areas of eating, medication, bathing, meal preparation and dressing. It is a part of CarePathways.com, which is a family-owned and operated company that was established in 1999 and educates families on the types of care options. Esteem Nursing Care is located in Brooklyn Center, Minn.
Senior Support & Care
Comprehensive companion and non-medical senior home care services. We are a husband and wife team dedicated to making life more comfortable for the seniors we care for. We have built relationships of friendship, loyalty, and trust with the seniors we have served. We have no Minimum Hour requirements and our service hours are very flexible because we only take on a few clients at a time. We treat our clients as if they’re family.
Rightway
Personal care assistance (PCA) program What is the personal care assistance program? The personal care assistance program provides services to persons who need help with day-to-day activities to allow them be more independent in their own home. A personal care assistant is an individual trained to help persons with basic daily routines. A PCA may be able to help you if you have a physical, emotional or mental disability, a chronic illness or an injury. Who is eligible for the personal care assistance program? To be eligible for the personal care assistance program, a person must meet all these criteria: * Be eligible to receive Medical Assistance or MinnesotaCare Expanded (pregnant women and children) * Require services that are medically necessary and ordered by a physician * Be able to make decisions about your own care or have someone who can make decisions for you What services can a personal care assistant provide? Personal care assistance services must be medically necessary and ordered by a physician. A person must need help to complete activities of daily living, have health-related tasks or need observation and redirection of behavior to use these four categories of services: * Activities of daily living (includes eating, toileting, grooming, dressing, bathing, transferring, mobility and positioning) * Complex health-related functions (includes, under state law, functions that can be delegated or assigned by a licensed health care professional to be performed by a personal care assistant) * Instrumental activities of daily living (includes meal planning and preparation, managing finances, shopping for essential items, performing essential household chores, communication by telephone and other media and getting around and participating in the community) * Observation and redirection of behavior (includes monitoring of behavior) How can I get personal care assistance services? Call your county public health nurse to arrange for an assessment and learn more about PCA options available, including types of agencies that provide personal care assistance services and how to hire your own staff. For more information, contact your local county agency (PDF). If you are enrolled in a prepaid health plan, contact your health plan for specific instructions. Additional resources * Find more information in a new area of the DHS Web site dedicated to personal care assistance