Home Care Partners Responsibilities

Home Care Partners shall be responsible for:

• Providing competent employees;
• Carrying bonding;
• Carrying liability and other insurances;
• Meeting the standards of Workers’ Compensation;
• Ensuring in-home care service delivery standards are met;
• Ensuring federal, state, county & municipal legalities are researched and applied;
• Adhering to labor regulations;
• Developing contingency plans;
• Making deductions for Social Security, Medicare and other taxes;
• Conducting needs assessments, with client’s/family’s input;
• Developing Plan of Cares with clients’/family’s input;
• Consulting with relevant professionals regarding the Plan of Care (as required);
• Being part of, or coordinating, a health care team to provide for the clients’ needs, as indicated;
• Establishing goals with the client’s representatives’ input and striving to meet these goals;
• Maintaining the client’s/family’s confidentiality, privacy and dignity;
• Maintaining professionalism and a code of ethics;
• Avoiding inflicting its personal values and standards onto clients;
• Being alert for and reporting signs of elder abuse to appropriate parties;
• Ensuring employees obtain the necessary immunizations unless such an act is contrary to personal beliefs and/or medical conditions;
• Ensuring that employees are tested to determine the existence of infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, hepatitis etc.