How to Start a Home Health Care Agency - Softcover

This book is intended to help an individual set up and open a home health-care agency. The steps provided in this book are applicable to most types of agencies. It all depends on what you chose to apply for on your initial application for home health care. Some steps may vary a little, but for the most part, the information and process are the same as written in this book.

As a young girl, I knew I wanted to grow up and make a difference in the lives of other people. What I had not planned on was the difference others would make in my life. My name is Jeffie, and I am the owner of a for-profit home health-care agency that I started from the ground up. If given the opportunity to do things over in my life, I would change only one thing, and that would have been to start my own home health-care agency years ago. I began a lifelong adventure in the health-care field starting as a nursing assistant and then becoming a licensed nurse and finally becoming an administrator in the long-term care industry. I served as an administrator for nearly twenty-three years before leaving. I was not ready to retire, yet I did not want to relocate to another city just to continue doing what I enjoyed doing. For years I watched how other divisions of health care operated and was intrigued with the home health-care area. Unlike the long-term care industry where I was strong and knowledgeable, I had great difficulty piecing together information needed to open a home health-care agency. I put months of hard work into researching and reading everything I could find. Once I had a good knowledge base for the home-care industry, I talked things over with my family, and I knew I had their support and commitment to help me—so I decided to go for it. Because of all the struggles I had trying to get information on opening up a home health-care agency, I decided that no one should have to go through all the trouble I did. If left me with no choice but to write this book. If your dream is to open a home health-care agency, I know the information in this book will be very beneficial and I wish you the very best in your endeavor. In this book I have included several forms that I developed for my agency along with the employee handbook outline and admission booklet contents. You may use them to help you develop your own booklets with written permission. I do know you will benefit from this book immensely in helping you to open your own home health-care agency. Each chapter may seem small, but the actual work done to achieve the goal is great. Much of the information provided in this book is done simultaneously. I do not claim to have included all the steps in this book that may be necessary, and requirements will vary from state to state.