Non-Medical Home Care
Agency in Tarentum, PA

What is Non-Medical Home Care?

Non-medical home care provides assistance with daily living activities that don't require a licensed medical professional. This includes personal care, companionship, meal preparation, light housekeeping, and transportation.

Families in Tarentum often hear two different terms used as if they mean the same thing. Non-medical home care and skilled home health are not the same service. Care Solutions provides non-medical home care, which covers activities of daily living, companionship, light housekeeping, meal preparation, medication reminders, and transportation. We do not perform clinical tasks that require a nursing license. That includes wound care, injections, IV therapy, catheter changes, and skilled assessments. Those services come from a Medicare-certified home health agency under physician orders. Knowing which type of care your loved one needs matters because the funding sources and eligibility rules differ. Non-medical home care is typically private pay or covered through the Pennsylvania Community HealthChoices Medicaid waiver. Skilled home health is usually billed to Medicare for a limited number of weeks after a hospital stay. The two services often run side by side. A patient recovering from hip surgery may receive physical therapy from a home health nurse three times a week, while our caregivers handle bathing, dressing, and meal prep the other days. We coordinate with the skilled agency so the schedule lines up and nothing falls through. When skilled care ends, non-medical support usually continues. Call our Pittsburgh office at (412) 341-7780 to talk through what your loved one actually needs. We serve Tarentum and the Alle-Kiski Valley communities along the Allegheny River.