Medicare Home Health & Therapies

Why Choose Castor?

• Joint Commission Accreditation: Our agency is accredited for excellence in quality and safety.
• Convenient Home Visits: Receive skilled nursing care within the comfort of your home.
• Expert Care: Our professionals are trained to use advanced medical equipment and administer therapies, supported by our own Medical Equipment & Supplies store.
• Comprehensive Training: Home health aides receive extensive training in fall prevention, emergency preparedness, infection control, daily living tasks, and cultural sensitivity.
• Home Adaptations: We assist in making your living space safer, more comfortable, and accessible.
• Cost-Effective: More affordable than hospital or skilled nursing facility care.
• Personalized Services: Tailored to meet your specific medical, personal, cultural, financial, and emotional needs.
• Support for Family Caregivers: Provides relief from caregiving responsibilities.
• Reduced Hospital Visits: Minimizes the need for frequent hospital trips.
• Holistic Well-Being: Promotes health, healing, and overall happiness.
• Peace of Mind: Offers reassurance to patients and their families.
• Comfort and Care: Eases the stresses associated with aging and provides high-quality care at home.

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Castor Home Health Services

Castor provides a range of home health services, including:

• Skilled Nursing Care
• Physical Therapy
• Occupational Therapy
• Speech Therapy
• Home Health Aides

Our Skilled and Trained Professionals

• Home Health Nurses: Specializing in senior care, our in-home health care nurses offer a preferred alternative to hospital settings, focusing on personalized care in the comfort of the patient’s home.
• Physical Therapists: Experts in physical therapy, they use a variety of treatments to enhance health, functionality, mobility, and address physical impairments.
• Occupational Therapists: These professionals design and implement therapeutic activities to aid individuals or groups with disabilities, injuries, or mental impairments, improving daily living skills.
• Speech Therapists: Also known as speech-language pathologists (SLPs), they work to prevent, diagnose, and treat speech, language, social communication, cognitive-communication, and swallowing disorders in both children and adults.
• Home Health Aides: Providing support for aging, disabled, or impaired patients, they assist with activities of daily living (ADLs), household chores, meal preparation, and more to enhance safety and well-being.

Our expert in-home care services not only prevent rehospitalization but also reduce the need for nursing home placements. By delivering high-quality, individualized care, our professionals help patients maintain functional independence, confidence, and dignity, ensuring a healthier, happier, and more autonomous life.

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Why Choose Castor?

Choosing Castor for Veterans Home Care services offers numerous advantages:

• Extensive Experience: With over 30 years of providing home health care to veterans, Castor’s team of dedicated and compassionate caregivers is committed to delivering top-quality care.
• Specialized Expertise: Our caregivers are trained to address the unique needs of veterans, understanding both their medical and emotional challenges.
• VA-Approved: As a VA-approved provider, Castor accepts VA benefits, making it easier for veterans to access the care they need.
• Flexible and Personalized Care: We offer a range of services and flexible scheduling options tailored to individual needs.
• Affordable Options: Various financing options are available to ensure our services are accessible and budget-friendly.

Castor’s commitment to quality, personalized care and our understanding of veterans’ specific needs make us an excellent choice for home health care. Contact us to learn how we can support you or a loved one with professional, compassionate care.

Our Veterans Care Services

We offer a range of day-to-day assistance to support your loved one, including:

• Companionship and Conversation: Providing engaging and supportive interactions.
• Safe Environment: Ensuring a secure and comfortable living space.
• Healthy Meal Preparation: Assisting with or preparing nutritious meals.
• Appointment Reminders: Keeping track of important dates and appointments.
• Escort Services: Accompanying to appointments or activities.
• Daily Progress Documentation: Tracking and recording health and activity progress.
• Reading Assistance: Helping with reading tasks.
• Laundry: Managing laundry needs.
• Calendar Management: Maintaining and updating schedules.
• Bed Making and Linen Changes: Keeping living areas fresh and tidy.
• Pet Care: Taking care of pets.
• Door and Telephone Response: Managing communications and visitors.
• Mail Organization: Picking up and sorting mail.
• Medication and Food Expiry Checks: Ensuring items are within their use-by dates.
• Grocery List Preparation and Shopping: Creating lists and assisting with shopping.
• Bill Payment Assistance: Helping with managing and paying bills.
• Home Deliveries Oversight: Monitoring deliveries to the home.
• Visit and Outing Planning: Organizing and planning social visits or outings.

Our services are designed to provide comprehensive support and enhance the quality of life for veterans in the comfort of their own homes.

Post-Operative Care & Specialized Care

If your elderly loved one requires extra care following a surgical procedure, Castor Home Nursing offers comprehensive in-home services to support their recovery. Our services include:

• Bathing and Grooming Assistance: Helping with personal hygiene and appearance.
• Safe Lifting and Reaching: Ensuring safe and proper movements.
• Clothing and Dressing Aid: Assisting with selecting and wearing clothes.
• Walking Assistance: Supporting mobility both indoors and outdoors.
• Appointment Documentation: Taking detailed notes during medical appointments.
• Medication Reminders: Ensuring timely medication administration.

For specialized care, our trained professionals provide support for various conditions, including:

• Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care
• Hospice and Cancer Care
• Diabetes Care
• Incontinence Care
• Stroke Care
• Respite Care
• Parkinson’s Care
• And More

We conduct thorough one-on-one assessments to tailor care for post-operative procedures, collaborating with our skilled nursing or home services teams to provide support for:

• Hip Replacements
• Knee Replacements
• Shoulder Surgery
• Spine Surgery
• Cardiac Surgery
• Gastrointestinal Surgery
• Prostate Surgery
• Plastic Surgery
• Cataract or Eye Surgery

Our dedicated team ensures your loved one receives the specialized care they need for a smooth and comfortable recovery at home.

### Why Choose Castor?

At Castor, we pride ourselves on more than just expertise; we bring passion and compassion to our staffing services. Our team includes a diverse group of dedicated RNs, LPNs, and CNAs, all committed to providing exceptional care.

We specialize in staffing for a variety of settings, including long-term care facilities, specialty centers, assisted living communities, acute care hospitals, and rehabilitation centers. Whether you require support in specific specialty areas or need coverage across various fields, our extensive pool of skilled professionals is ready to meet your needs. Choose Castor for a staffing partner that truly cares.

Our Staffing Services

At Castor, our dedicated team guides you through the process of finding the ideal nurses or CNAs to meet your specific needs. We leverage our extensive network and our own state-approved CNA program to connect you with highly skilled professionals who will make a positive impact on your facility.

Our staffing services cover a wide range of settings, including:

• Acute Care Hospitals and Medical Centers
• Rehabilitation Hospitals / Ventilator Facilities
• Nursing Homes and Long-Term Care Facilities
• Outpatient and Health Clinics
• Surgery Centers
• Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Facilities
• Assisted Living Residences
• Hospice Units
• Doctor’s Offices

Whatever your staffing needs, we are here to provide the right talent for your facility.

Why Choose Castor Staffing?

Partnering with Castor Staffing offers a comprehensive solution for all your talent acquisition needs. We handle the entire recruitment process, from vetting candidates with the necessary credentials and background checks to persuading them to join your team. Here’s how we benefit you:

• On-Demand Scheduling: Flexible staffing solutions to meet your needs.
• Streamlined Application Screening: Save time with our efficient screening processes.
• Marketing and Employee Retention: Address turnover and skill mismatches effectively.
• Workers’ Compensation Management: We handle compensation issues for you.
• Credentialing Compliance: Ensuring all talent meets necessary credentials.
• Benefits and Pay Management: We take care of employee benefits and payroll.
• Training: Providing necessary training for our staff.

Additionally, our services include:

• Temporary Staffing Services (Per-Diem)
• Local Contract Services
• Travel Contract Services

At Castor, our goal is straightforward: “We will adapt to your system.” We’re committed to providing staffing solutions that seamlessly integrate with your operations.

Why Choose Castor?

With a legacy spanning over 30 years, serving both rural and suburban areas, our commitment to the community is deeply ingrained. Our team of 100+ caregivers possesses specialized training that reflects in the exceptional care they provide within your home. Our genuine passion for helping others attain independence, ensuring safety, and fostering an improved quality of life is a core part of our identity. Serving others isn’t just a duty, but our utmost priority and the source of our greatest satisfaction.

The Impact of Well-Matched Caregivers: At Castor, our emphasis is on building meaningful relationships and cultivating kindness. This distinctive approach is what sets our one-on-one care apart for clients and makes caregiving truly rewarding. We take the time to understand you – your preferences, habits, interests, and more – through thorough initial assessments and ongoing interactions. This allows our caregivers not only to possess the necessary skills and expertise to meet your needs, but also to be a seamless personal fit. For many clients, their caregivers evolve into an extended family, creating an invaluable connection that truly matters.

Our Home Services include:

If it’s become more challenging to manage daily personal activities or housekeeping tasks, our trained and experienced home health aides can assist you. Or Perhaps you need help with getting to the shopping or to a doctor’s appointment, or maybe your parents have dementia and need a companion to keep them living safely at home. Castor is here for you as a complete home care service provider. We offer:

• Bathing, grooming, using the toilet, and dressing
• Meal planning and preparation 
• Light housekeeping, laundry, and running errands
• Companionship and conversation 
• Provide a safe environment 
• Assist with or prepare healthy meals 
• Provide reminders for appointments 
• Escort to appointments or other activities 
• Document daily progress 
• Aide with reading 
• Laundry 
• Maintain a calendar 
• Make beds and change linens 
• Take care of a pet 
• Properly answer the door and telephone 
• Pick-up and organize mail
• Check medication and food expirations 
• Prepare grocery list
• Go or assist with grocery shopping 
• Assist with bill paying 
• Oversee home deliveries
• Plan visits or outings 

POST-OPERATIVE CARE & SPECIALIZED CARE

Does your elderly loved one need extra care after post-operative procedure?

Here are some of the many in home care services we provide:

• Assist with bathing and grooming 
• Help with proper lifting and reaching 
• Assist with clothing selection and dressing 
• Aid and assist with walking in and outdoors 
• Taking detailed notes at their doctors’ appointments
• Medication reminders 

When your loved one needs specialized in home care, we are here to help with the following with fully trained professionals:

• Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care
• Hospice and Cancer Care 
• Diabetes Care 
• Incontinence Care
• Stroke Care 
• Respite Care 
• Parkinson’s Care
• And many more conditions 

We provide a thorough one-on-one assessment to provide care for some of the many post-operative procedures below either by working with our skilled nursing team or home services team:

• Hip Replacements 
• Knee Replacements 
• Shoulder Surgery
• Spine Surgery
• Cardiac Surgery 
• Gastrointestinal Surgery 
• Prostate Surgery
• Plastic Surgery 
• Cataract or Eye Surgery

Our skilled and trained professionals include:

Our Home Services staff include Certified Nurse aides (CNA) and Homemakers/Caregivers

We implement a very high standard to bring our employees into our agency. Here are some of our hiring standards.

• Preferences to hire employees referred by our current employees or patient’s family. 
• 100% drug free environment and every employee goes through the drug testing (policy to do random drug testing) before they start employment
• Multiple layers of interview and experience validation 
• High standards on reference checks 
• Thorough checks on background and negligence / incident reports. 
• Training the employees with the other employees in the home already prior to start the service 
• Electronic charting training to accurately chart the condition
• Competitive compensation and retention strategy to keep the nurses to a specific family. 
• Over 350 online training courses for our nurses to update their skill sets. 
• Access to Castor’s own medical supplies to the nurse to educate on the medical equipment
• Castor’s Health Institute offers custom training to all our staff on as needed basis

Why Choose Castor?

• Ability to conveniently schedule visits with highly skilled nursing care within the comforts of your home
• Our Professionals are trained to use high-tech medical equipment (Castor has its own Medical Equipment & Supplies store) and administer therapies
• Provide Adult Private Duty Nursing aides with highly trained resources to meet the needs of our patients. The training given to our aides are fall prevention, emergency preparation, infection control, Daily Living Tasks, and cultural sensitivity.
• Provide assistance with specialized adaptations to your home environment to make your living space safer, more comfortable, and more accessible
• Vastly more affordable than hospital-setting inpatient care or skilled nursing facilities
• Specialized services cater to the highly individual medical, personal, cultural, financial and emotional needs of the patient
• Provide family caretakers a break from the care and assistance responsibilities.
• Curtail frequency of hospital visits
• Promote health, healing, and overall happiness
• Provide peace of mind to both the patient and their families
• Help to soothe and comfort the stresses involved with the aging process
• Remove the need for hospital stays by providing high-caliber hospital-level care in an at-home setting

Our Home Nursing Services include:

If you or loved one needs help with ongoing medical needs due to chronic illness, injury or disability, Castor’s highly skilled nurses provide the highest quality medical attention, ongoing support, and rehabilitative care to help you remain living safely at home. We take a proactive approach to caregiving, focusing on the prevention of complications that could lead to unnecessary hospitalizations. This ongoing surveillance helps to quickly identify and address adverse or preventable health triggers and situations.

Our team can help you manage complex medical needs at home by providing:

• Medication Administration
• Medication Set-up
• Wound Care & Management
• Ventilator Care & Management
• Tracheotomy Care & Management
• Tube Feeding Care
• IV Infusion Therapy
• Bowel Management
• Ostomy Care
• Catheterization
• Respite Care
• Personal Care
• Skin Care
• Ambulation/Transfer Assistance
• Exercises/Range of Motion
• Light Housekeeping
• Meal Preparation
• Errands
• Transportation
• Companionship

Being a Castor’s client means you’ll have access to on-call support any time you need it, 24 hours a day. And because Castor offers other types of home care such as personal care, therapy services, companionships, medical equipment and supplies, and home health care, you have peace of mind knowing that no matter your specific situation, Castor has care options to meet your needs.

There are many payment options that we can educate or accept such as: Private pay (credit card, check, auto pay), private health insurance, Veterans benefits and Workers Compensation.

Our skilled and trained professionals include:

Our private duty nursing staff include : 

• Registered Nurses (RN)
• Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN)
• Certified Nursing Aides (CNA)

We implement a very high standard to bring our employees into our agency. Here are some of our hiring standards. 

• Preferences to hire employees referred by our current employees or patient’s family. 
• 100% drug free environment and every employee goes through the drug testing (policy to do random drug testing) before they start employment
• Multiple layers of interview and experience validation 
• High standards on reference checks 
• Thorough checks on background and negligence / incident reports. 
• Training the employees with the other employees in the home already prior to start the service 
• Electronic charting training to accurately chart the condition
• Competitive compensation and retention strategy to keep the nurses to a specific family. 
• Over 350 online training courses for our nurses to update their skill sets. 
• Access to Castor’s own medical supplies to the nurse to educate on the medical equipment
• Castor’s Health Institute offers custom training to all our staff on as needed basis

Why Choose Castor?

At Castor Home Nursing’s Pediatric division, our mission is to deliver the highest standard of home nursing care with compassion, respect, and a commitment to education. Our highly trained pediatric nurses provide a wide range of supportive care services in the comfort of your home or residence, available around the clock (24/7).

Our skilled nurses perform physical assessments, measure vital signs, collect blood and urine samples, follow care plans, and collaborate with physicians to order diagnostic tests. To ensure your child receives the best possible care, our on-call nurse is available after business hours and on weekends for consultation.

Our dedicated nurse scheduling team is here to offer you the flexibility you need, matching your loved one with the most suitable nurse while allowing you to rest when necessary. With over 30 years of experience serving children in the community, we are confident in our ability to provide high-quality care with complete transparency for families, state agencies, and insurance payors.

We utilize fully electronic charting, powered by state-of-the-art, nationally recognized software. Our nursing charts are reviewed daily/weekly by supervisors and undergo internal audits on a quarterly basis, ensuring that care quality is maintained and manual errors are minimized. Additionally, our efficient processes allow us to provide requested charts and documentation to state agencies or insurance payors within 24 hours.

Castor Pediatric Nursing Services include:

• Medication administration
• Follow Plan of Care
• Ventilator and tracheostomy care 
• Suctioning
• G/J Tube feedings 
• Ensure equipment is running properly 
• Order Supplies (Castor owns Medicare/Medicaid Medical Supplies to simplify the order) 
• Measure Vitals 
• Case Management 
• Cardiac Care 
• Orthopedic Care 
• Infusion Nursing 
• Catheter Care 
• Ostomy Care 
• Wound vac 
• Blood Draws 
• Compress (Hot/Cold) 
• Change dressings 
• IV Therapy
• Bowel and Bladder training 
• Colostomy care 
• Communicate with the family and doctors 
• Work all shifts to relieve family members to take rest 
• Range of motion exercise 
• Work with physician to order diagnostic tests 
• Go to doctor appointments with patient (if insurance approves)

If you do not see the services that are not listed, please call us at any time to inquire about the services that you are looking for your loved one. 

Our goal is to put you and your family at the center of a seamless support system that improves the quality of your lives or your loved ones.

Our Skilled and Trained Professionals Include:

• Registered Nurses (RN)
• Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN)
• Certified Nurse Aides (CNA)

At Castor, we uphold the highest standards when bringing nurses into our agency. Below are some of our stringent hiring practices:

• Employee and Family Referrals: We give hiring preference to nurses referred by our current employees or the families of our patients.
• Drug-Free Environment: We maintain a 100% drug-free workplace. Every employee undergoes drug testing before starting employment, with random tests conducted throughout their tenure.
• Comprehensive Interviews and Validation: Our hiring process includes multiple layers of interviews and a thorough validation of each candidate’s experience.
• Rigorous Reference Checks: We enforce high standards in reference checks to ensure the reliability and professionalism of our staff.
• Extensive Background and Incident Reviews: We conduct thorough background checks and examine any negligence or incident reports before making a hiring decision.
• In-Depth Training: Our nurses receive several hours of training, including specialized training with ventilator and tracheostomy technology from our vendors.
• On-Site Training: Nurses are trained alongside current nurses in the home before they begin providing care independently.
• Electronic Charting Training: We ensure our nurses are proficient in electronic charting to accurately document patient conditions.
• Competitive Compensation and Retention: We offer competitive pay and retention strategies to ensure continuity of care by keeping nurses with the same families.
• Ongoing Education: Our nurses have access to over 350 online training courses to continually enhance their skill sets.
• Medical Equipment Training: Our nurses have access to Castor’s medical supplies for hands-on education with medical equipment.
• Customized Training: Castor’s Health Institute provides custom training to all our staff as needed to meet specific care requirements.