HOME HEALTH WORKS, LLC
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA

Home Health Works, a home health agency based in Clearwater, Florida, provides home health care professionals up to 24 hours a day in any home or facility within Florida’s Pasco and Pinellas counties. Our home health care professionals include RNs, LPNs, CNAs, home health aides, live-in caregivers, and home companions who provide care to elders desiring to remain living at home as well as to adults temporarily or permanently disabled. We work with both patient and physician to determine the exact level of home health care needed and then tailor our services to fit those needs. The care provided may be temporary, involving just a few hours a day, to more permanent and full time care. In fact, we are one of the few home health care agencies in Florida’s Pasco and Pinellas counties offering live-in caregiver services. Whatever your needs, we will provide the care necessary to restore optimum health. Home Health Works was started by the Minkoff family more than a decade ago. We believed then, as we do now, that home care should involve more than just nursing attention. We believe that in order to provide the highest quality of home care, we must treat patients like our very own family. We select only nursing staff who have sincere desires to care and help others, and who have strong backgrounds in providing reliable, loving care. We further train our nurses and aides to see patients as more than just medical situations: our patients become our first priority, as important as our own family members. We have been providing elderly care for 10 years in Florida, and each year, the state performs an evaluation for deficiencies we might possess. Every year, Home Health Works has passed this Florida state examination without any deficiencies. We are fully licensed, and each of our health care professionals is insured and bonded. If you are looking for reliable, trustworthy elderly care in Florida, our home health agency has an unbeatable history of satisfied patients. We only hire caregivers who have earnest desires to provide loving care, and we train them further to treat their patients just like they would treat a member of their own family. Yes, home caregivers are under the supervision of our director of nursing, who oversees the entire Home Health Works staff. She makes regularly supervisory visits to evaluate patients’ needs, making new recommendations if needs change. Other office staff will periodically call to make sure everything is going okay. We care for patients in all cities within Florida’s Pasco and Pinellas counties . You do not need to live in Florida to schedule elderly care. In fact, many children of elderly parents who schedule elderly care with Home Health Works live in states other than Florida. Costs for home health care depend on the amount and type of care provided. If the patient needs only the assistance of a home health aide or companion, the cost would be less than that of a RN or LPN. An additional factor is the amount of care needed: the patient may need anywhere from one-hour-a-day to 24-hour-a-day care. If you call our office (727-442-5612), we can give you an accurate estimate for your situation. As for insurance coverage of home health care, different policies range in the amount of care covered. Some insurance plans cover full home health care costs, others cover part, and others cover none at all. It all depends on your policy and company. Contact us and we will call your insurance company for you to find out the Florida’s Pasco and Pinellas counties of your plan. At Home Health Works, we do not advocate the use of psychiatric medication for behavioral or mental health problems. Often elderly people have pronounced nutritional deficiencies that are at the root of problems such as insomnia, depression, and anxiety. One solution is for a family member to provide the home health care, and in fact about twenty percent of Americans do care for their aging parents. However, these family caregivers experience considerable difficulties providing the care. Poor health, job absenteeism, and feelings of depression and isolation make the family caregiver’s life full of burden and struggle. In addition to being costly, nursing homes also provide poor one-on-one care. An average nursing home CNA visits a patient only 2.7 hours a day, according to the AARP Florida State Director. Patients are lucky to be seen once every few hours in nursing care facilities that cost patients tens of thousands of dollars a year! Contented patients remaining at home in households free of caregiver stress, where they are close to familiar surroundings, experience the best environment for recovery. A home care provider removes the burden from the family and gives the nursing care needed for the patient’s return to optimum health. Family members who take upon themselves the role of the nursing their loved one, rather than hiring a home healthcare professional, often find that this family caregiving requires a lot of patient persistence, encouragement, and help. Family caregivers who try to do it all alone can become especially frustrated when they can’t provide adequate care. This time-consuming labor of love can lead to a great deal of family caregiver stress and burnout, resulting in compromised physical health, poor performance at work, and feelings of depression and isolation. Hiring the help of a professional home care assistant can significantly relieve that burden and allow the family caregiver to keep his or her social well-being. This poor health is mostly due to the lack sleep, little exercise, and poor nutrition that occurs as time is spent in family caregiving. Sadly, as family caregivers contribute their time and energy to helping another return to health, they lose their own. This caregiving stress is counterproductive to physical, social, and mental health — for both patient and caregiver. Family caregivers shouldn’t try doing it all alone. Spending money to hire a professional home care assistant can help lift the burden. Even freeing up a small number of hours each week can have a significant impact on a family caregiver’s sense of well-being.