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About Home Services Personal Care & Companionship
Home care encompasses a range of professional support services that enable individuals to maintain their safety and independence within their own homes. Castor’s home care services cater to various needs, including aiding seniors in achieving independent living, assisting those managing chronic health conditions, aiding post-medical recovery, or supporting individuals with special needs or disabilities. Our skilled caregivers offer both short-term and long-term care solutions based on individual requirements, ensuring enhanced quality of life. Home care serves as a vital tool to promote safety, security, and increased autonomy, as well as the effective management of ongoing medical conditions.
It’s important to note that not all home care providers offer the complete spectrum of services. Castor stands as a comprehensive home care solutions provider, delivering a wide array of services and essential products that foster safe and independent living for you or your loved ones within the comfort of home.
In terms of insurance and payment options, personal care and companionship services are typically covered through private payments, long-term care insurance, or Medicaid. Other potential payment sources include long-term care insurance, health insurance, veterans’ benefits, and worker’s compensation. Castor is dedicated to accommodating diverse payment methods and is committed to collaborating with all payor sources, while also providing guidance on the most cost-effective service options for families.
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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
About Castor Home Nursing Services
Castor offers private duty nursing services for patients of all ages in various settings, including at-home care, assisted living facilities, and more. At Castor, our clients are our purpose. Every member of our team—from nurses, home health aides, and therapists to supervisors and support staff—is wholeheartedly dedicated to ensuring each client receives the best possible care tailored to their individual needs. Delivering exceptional care is not just our highest priority; it’s our greatest joy.
Our nurses are driven by a deep-seated passion for caring, which we enhance through ongoing specialized training, including skill lab sessions at our own health institute. They are backed by a dedicated team and 24/7 clinical support, ensuring they are equipped to provide the highest standard of care. Every RN (Registered Nurse) and LPN (Licensed Practical Nurse) we hire undergoes a rigorous selection process to meet our exacting standards of excellence.
With over 30 years of experience serving the community and operating across more than 20 counties, Castor is a name you can trust to take care of your loved ones. Adult Private Duty Nursing Adult Private Duty Nursing provides specialized care for adult patients in the comfort of their own homes. Our team of highly trained and experienced nurses deliver personalized, compassionate, and comprehensive medical services, ensuring the highest level of comfort and well-being for our patients. With a focus on individualized care plans, our goal is to enhance the quality of life and promote optimal health outcomes for our adult patients.
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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
