Take Care Home Health Care offers personalized care that allows eligible individuals to receive the help they need while being able to remain in the comfort and security of their own home. In-home care services provide families with the comfort of knowing their loved one is receiving the care they need to live a happy, healthier life.
Our Goal
In today’s tough climate, we know many families in our community are struggling and could use all the financial help they can get. We created this agency to ensure that every eligible person in the state is aware of and has the means to take advantage of these state-funded programs designed to help those in need.
Who We Are
Take Care Home Health Care is a state-approved Home Help Agency. The State of Michigan’s Home Help program offers individuals taking care of Medicaid-enrolled patients financial compensation of $13.25/hr for completing simple homecare tasks for said patient. As a state approved agency, we can offer these same caregivers a minimum of $14.20/hr for doing things like cooking, cleaning, laundry, and running errands for their patient.
How We Do It
We’re able to offer a higher rate than the state because the State of Michigan offers Home Help Agencies an hourly rate of $18.71/hr for each caregiver employed by our agency. Despite our own overhead and operating costs, we want to offer higher wages to our community of caregivers because we firmly believe a community of happy and financially stable individuals is more important than our bottom line.
Who's Eligible
Though only Medicaid-enrolled patients are eligible to receive caretaking, absolutely anybody is eligible to become a caregiver. Often times, the perfect individual to care for a patient is a person whom lives with said patient and already does these things.
Example 1: Mary is in her 60s and receives Medicaid. She lives in the same household as her children and grandchildren because she often needs help with simple daily tasks like cooking, cleaning, dosing medication, running errands, etc. Her Daughter, Miranda, already does these things for her Mother. Miranda is a perfect candidate for our agency. We can provide Miranda payment of at least $14.20/hr for the things she’s already doing to care for her Mother.
Example 2: John is 21 and was recently in an auto accident. As a result, John has trouble getting around and completing simple daily tasks. His Mother, Sally, is happy to help John out while he recovers. She drives him to and from physical therapy appointments, helps prepare his meals, and does his laundry. Sally is another perfect candidate for our agency. We can also provide her payment of at least $14.20/hr while her son recovers, and she does things she’d have been happy to do anyway.
How Do You Sign Up?
1.) Ask any physician acquainted with the patient to fill out a Medical Needs form on their behalf. (We’re more than happy to help here and send the form to the physician for you!) Most physicians, regardless of their discipline, are familiar with the program and are happy to fill this out for any patient they believe could benefit from extra help.
2.) Register the caregiver in the Michigan online CHAMPS registry and subsequently as an employee of Take Care Home Health Care. (With your permission, we will happily fill out this paperwork for you. We’ll ask you for some personal information and get you signed up the same day. All information we gather is HIPPA compliant and shared only with the necessary channels within the State of Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.)
3.) Submit an Adult Services Application and the completed Medical Needs form to your local MDHHS office. (We’ll submit this for your as well!)
4.) Once your county MDHHS office has received this information, a caseworker will be assigned to your case and will set up a meeting with the patient and caregiver to assess each situation. The caseworker then has the final say as to whether or not the patient and caregiver are eligible to participate in the Home Help program.
5.) After approval, your only responsibility as a caregiver is to provide a monthly summary of activities and hours spent taking care of your patient. We here at Take Care Home Health Care collect and submit these summaries to the State of Michigan and are reimbursed at the end of the following month. That is when we send out checks to our caregivers for the hard and loving work that they do!