Personal Care & Companionship

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?

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.