We take pride in offering a personalized care plan for each client. Services include:
- PCA (Traditional or Choice)
- Homemaker/Companion
- Waivered Services
What services do you need? The first thing to decide is what kind of personal care services are right for you or your loved one.
At Link Home Care LLC our team of homemakers and companions can help you with some of your daily chores, so you can remain safely at home.
Our homemakers and companions provide a variety of services, including:
● Shopping and other personal errands
● Medication reminders
● Light housekeeping
● Companionship (e.g., conversations, hobbies, cards)
● Safety supervision
There are two types of PCA service models 1. Traditional PCA Service Model Traditional PCA allows Link Home Care LLC, to play a more active role. Link Home Care LLC will be in charge of making employment decisions, but the clients can still give their Personal Care Assistants daily direction and may adjust the PCA’s schedule to meet their needs. As the employer, Link Home Care LLC is responsible for:
- Hiring, training, scheduling, and dismissing PCA staff members
- Providing backup PCA staff when necessary
- Developing Care Plans In consultation with our clients and/or their Responsible Parties
- Overseeing and evaluating PCA staff members
- Meeting all employment laws and requirements
- Monitoring
PCA hours 2. PCA Choice Model
The PCA Choice option gives our clients more control. You or your Responsible Party is considered the employer, and Link Home Care LLC will act as your fiscal intermediary. As the client and/or Responsible Party, you are accountable for:
- Developing Care Plans — you can elect to have assistance from a Qualified Professional.
- Finding, hiring, training, scheduling, monitoring, and firing PCAs
- Finding backup PCAs.
- Have more input on PCA wages
- Monitor PCA hours
- Maintain documentation of PCA tasks and actions
What kind of duties fall under personal care? Personal Care Assistants typically perform a number of duties including, but not limited to:
- Bathing
- Grooming and dressing
- Linen changes
- Toileting/incontinence assistance
- Laundry and light housekeeping
- Planning and preparing meals
- Diet plan maintenance
- Shopping assistance
- Feeding assistance
- Medication reminders
- Range of motion
- Assistance with walking and transfers
- Local errands
- Redirection and reorientation
- Companionship and supervision
- range of motion exercises
- seizure intervention
- ventilator suctioning
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA FOR PCA SERVICES
Below are the basic eligibility criteria.
• Live in Minnesota
• Be eligible to receive Medical Assistance or MinnesotaCare (pregnant women and children under age 21)
• Be able to make decisions about your own care or have someone who can make decisions for you
• Meet with a Public Health Nurse from your county to have a PCA assessment
• Need “constant supervision” or “hands-on assistance” to complete at least one ADL or have Behavioral needs which warrant supervision.
WHAT HAPPENS AT THE PCAASSESSMENT?
At the PCA assessment, a Public Health Nurse will ask questions and observe the individual to determine the need for PCA services. If assistance is needed with several ADLs, more help (hours) will be given than if assistance is needed with just one or two ADLs. Also, if assistance is needed with ‘critical’ADLs (eating, transfers, mobility, and toileting), more help will be given than if assistance is required with ‘non-critical’ADLs (grooming, dressing, bathing, positioning). For more detailed information about what will happen at the assessment, see this link.
At the assessment, a nurse from the county will determine how many units (15 minute increments) of service you are eligible to receive. From there, you can identify Link Home Care LLC as your PCA provider and we will assist you through the rest of the process.