Home Care Industry Trends to Watch in 2025
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Demand for in-home caregivers is on the rise and home care industry trends suggest 2025 is the year to start your agency.
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How To Choose The Right Home Care Agency
Choosing a home care provider can be stressful. There is a lot at stake, whether the caregivers that visit will be for you, your parents or for other loved ones. You are about to invite strangers into your house! You need to make sure you can trust the company that you hire, and understand how it operates. Below we outline the tradeoffs you make when deciding based on price. To keep it simple, low cost home care providers can offer a lower price, but only by cutting corners. As with any service, “you get what you pay for.” FirstLight Home...
Quality Home Care In Sacramento
To further establish ourselves as a quality-focused home care provider in the Sacramento region, FirstLight Home Care has launched a new Quality Team. While some home care agencies have begun outsourcing operations to remote third parties, FirstLight has done the opposite. We continue investing in our local team to improve the quality and personal touch for which we are known. (By “operations” I mean hiring, scheduling, training, billing and all communications with you, your loved one and your caregivers — almost everything we do). Home care is “simple but not easy.” I believe it is a people business and that...
COVID Testing & Vaccination For FirstLight Caregivers
Dear Awesome FirstLight Caregiver, Below is information on the COVID vaccine and COVID testing. COVID VACCINE -- STATE REQUIREMENTS ***12/22/21 UPDATE*** BY 2/1/21 the state of California is requiring all Home Care Aides to: "be fully vaccinated AND RECEIVE A BOOSTER DOSE for COVID-19" or be granted an exemption There are two types of exemptions: Medical and Religous. A Medical exemption requires a letter from your doctor, and a religious exemption requires a signed letter from you.Caregivers who are granted an exemption must get COVID-tested every week and provide proof to FirstLight Home Care. The COVID test must be either...
Learn More about COVID Testing & Vaccination For FirstLight Caregivers
Right now there are two ways to get the vaccine. #1: Go to Placer County Fairgrounds — read the information here #2: Go to Safeway — SEE BELOW Key documents for Safeay are here: Informed Consent for Inactivated Immunization Universal 2020 v.2 (002) CDC COVID Pre-Vaccination sceening form Placer County Public Health is partnering with 8 Safeway Pharmacies to administer COVID-19 vaccine to Phase 1A Tier 1, 2, and 3 priority groups. Below are the details for the in-store clinics: Clinic start date: Tuesday 1/12/2021 Clinic will continue until 2/26/21 (or until further notice) Clinic will be held Monday-Friday from...
COVID Vaccine - Placer Fairgrounds
2/3/21 UPDATE: THERE ARE NOW DELAYS IN GETTING VACCINE APPOINTMENTS (UNFORTUNATELY) Please do NOT SEND THIS PAGE OR THESE to anyone other than FirstLight staff -- PER PLACER COUNTY. You will earn an extra $1.00/hour if you get the vaccine and have achieved immunity. Depending on which vaccine you get, this would be up to about 1.5 months after the first dose. See my note about 2021 pay rates here. Getting the vaccine is NOT MANDATORY. It is NOT REQUIRED. However, clients are already asking us when our caregivers are getting the vaccine. This spring they may start requesting only...
Booking a Covid test with Project Baseline (step-by-step)
1. Scroll down and click "I Acknowledge" 2. Sign up using your Google account 3. Complete the personal information survey and then click next 4. Fill out the second personal information survey and click next (make sure to select yes for "Do you live or work in a community setting such as a nursing home, long-term care, homeless shelter, or other assisted-living facility?" 5. Click next after completing the screener and then start Lab Consent Form 6. After signing the consent form and filling out insurance information, select a location and time for your test to finish the booking process....
Learn More about Booking a Covid test with Project Baseline (step-by-step)
Booking a Covid Test With LHI (Step-by-step)
1. Select California from the dropdown menu. 2. Complete the patient screening survey and then click confirm. (make sure to select healthcare worker for occupation) 3. Fill out personal information, complete reCAPTCHA and click submit. (write down patient ID number, you will need it when creating your account) 4. Fill out personal information for creating your account. When you're done, this page should pop up. Select schedule an appointment. 5. Select a convenient location. (make sure appointments are available there) 6. Select date and time and then click "schedule."
Learn More about Booking a Covid Test With LHI (Step-by-step)
Booking a Covid Test with West Sacramento COVID Testing (Step-By-Step)
Click this link: https://doineedacovid19test.com/?ReturnUrl=/Member/Home to schedule a Covid-19 test. Step 1: Click register and create an account with TrueNorth. Step 2: Click "Start Assessment" in the COVID-19 TESTING box in the top left, and schedule an appointment for your test. (make sure to select healthcare worker for occupation) Step 3: Print out or email a waiver, and make sure to keep track of it, as you will need it for your appointment.
Learn More about Booking a Covid Test with West Sacramento COVID Testing (Step-By-Step)
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