Home care services definition

Home care services means skilled or personal care
Home care services means skilled or personal care services provided to clients in their place of residence for a fee;
Home care services means a program which is currently administered, and through coordinated planning, evaluation, and follow-up procedures, provides for physician-directed medical, nursing, social, and related services made available either directly or through participating agencies to selected patients having a nexus with a hospital at their place of residence.

Examples of Home care services in a sentence

  • Home care services include personal care services, such as assisting the client with personal hygiene, dressing, feeding, transfer and ambulatory needs.

  • Home care services include laboratory services and private duty nursing for a patient whose medical condition requires more skilled nursing than intermittent visiting nursing care.

  • Home care services shall be provided by an organization which has received Medicare/Medicaid certification.

  • Home care services may be provided outside a person’s home when normal life activities take the individual away from home.

  • Home care services also include homemaking services that are incidental to the client’s health needs such as making the client’s bed, cleaning the client’s living area, such as bedroom and bathroom, and doing the client’s laundry and shopping.


More Definitions of Home care services

Home care services means any of the following services and directly related medical supplies and appliances, which are provided to an individual in a place of temporary or permanent residence used as an individual's home:
Home care services means services which are provided primarily in the patient's home. These services may include, but are not necessarily limited to, one or more of the following services: nursing services, physician services, home health aide services, homemaker services, physical therapy, social services, pastoral counseling and trained volunteer services.
Home care services means all services available under sections 25.5-5-102, 25.5-5-103, 25.5-5-202, and 25.5-5-203 that may be received in a noninstitutional setting.
Home care services means care, treatment or services provided under a Plan of Care at any type facility such as Adult Day Care Facility or in your home by formal or informal caregivers. Home Care Services includes Adult Day Care, Home Health Care, Homemaker Services, Hospice Services, Personal Care and Respite Care.
Home care services means a Medicare health service as listed in § 1861 of the Social Security Act (42 USC § 1395x(m)); and for Medicaid, meets the criteria for Medical Necessity, is ordered by a physician and documented in a service plan that is reviewed by the physician at least once every sixty (60) days for the provision of home health services, or home care nursing, or at least once every three hundred and sixty-five (365) days for personal care; and the services are provided to the recipient at the recipient's residence that is a place other than a hospital or long-term care facility or as specified in Minnesota Statutes, § 256B.0625, subd. 6(a). These services include the following: Home health aide services as listed in Minnesota Statutes, § 256B.0625 subd. 6(a), § 256B.0651, and § 256B.0653, subd. 3; Skilled nursing visits including telehomecare visits, provided by a certified Home Health Care Agency as authorized by Minnesota Statutes, § 256B.0625, subd.6a, and § 256B.0653, subd. 4; Home care nursing as listed in Minnesota Statutes, § 256B.0625 subd. 7. Home care therapies as listed in Minnesota Statutes, § 256B.0625 subd. 8, and § 256B.0651, subd. 1(a); Durable medical equipment, and associated supplies when accompanied by a home care service as described in Minnesota Statutes § 144A.43 subd.3 (10); and Personal Care Assistance (PCA) services as authorized by Minnesota Statutes, § 256B.0659, subd. 2.
Home care services means any combination of community based services and home health services as defined in sections 17b-342-1(b)(9) and (21) of the Regulations of the State Agencies which enable elders to live in noninstitutional settings. Such services may be provided to elders living in private homes, congregate housing, assisted living demonstration project facilities, housing and urban development facilities, private facilities and homes for the aged and other community living situations as long as the services needed are not considered a regular component of the services of the community living situation;]
Home care services means medical and nonmedical services, provided to ill, disabled, or infirm persons in their residences. Such services may include homemaker services, assistance with activities of daily living, and respite care services.