Start a Home Care Business
If you would like some special assistance with getting your private duty business up and running or would like help with growing your business, corecubed offers consulting services from industry experts with many years experience in the private duty industry. If you are interested in consulting services to help you start your home care business, contact us at 800-370-6580 ext 5 or email info@corecubed.com.
Start Private Duty
Whether you’re starting a new venture or growing your current private duty business, this manual will support your success and growth while saving you money! Written by an entrepreneur who created and sold a successful private duty business and then went on to consult nationally, this is a HOW-TO, real-world guide. Packed with tips and insider information you need to succeed in private duty home care, it includes business basics, forms and processes to start and grow your private duty business. Eight modules include:
- Management Overview — The basics needed to manage a private duty business;
- Direct Service Personnel Operations — Finding, hiring and retaining the best workforce for private duty;
- Scheduling — Everything to create a seamless scheduling system for private duty;
- Geriatric Care Management — Responsibilities, Procedures and Forms;
- Care Plan Book Forms — Coordinated care materials to leave in the client’s home;
- Administrative Employee Manual — Company policies, procedures and rules to edit as needed;
- Caregiver Employee Manual — Complete employee handbook for the private duty direct care staff to edit for your business location;
- Marketing Module — Generate inquiries and develop marketing strategy for private duty
BEST VALUE:
Price for complete Private Duty Manual with all forms and modules: $1,500.00
** Private Duty Business Manual intended for single site usage only - licenses available for multiple sites. Please contact corecubed to inquire.
For the best value, purchase the entire private duty business manual, complete with all forms and modules; or if you prefer, purchase the modules individually to best suit you and your agency's needs.
This module provides a detailed overview of staffing, procedures, services and forms for managing a private duty business.
Business Procedures
Description of Services
Administrative Staff Job Descriptions
Assignments and Staffing Policies
Emergency and Disaster Procedures
Client Rights/Responsibilities
Informed Consent
Quality Goals
Checklist for Office
Information and Resources for Office including the following:
Forms
Service Agreements (3 models)
Authorization to Release Medical Information
Caregiver Evaluation and Visit Record
Client Grievance Form
Client Rights and Responsibilities
Transportation-Caregiver Payroll Deduction
Caregiver and Office Staff Mileage Record
Office Call Tracking Log
Management overview module -- Price if sold separately: $149 
Direct Service Personnel Operations Module
This private duty module provides all the necessary information for finding and hiring the best workforce for your services.
Employment Standards
Interviewing and Screening Tips and Principles
How to Recruit Direct Care Staff
How to Process New Hires
Forms including the following:
Application for Employment
Reference Check
Skills Test
Evaluation
Letters to employees
Employee Referral Card
direct service personell operations module -- Price if sold separately: $399
This module will give you the information to create a seamless scheduling system.
Scheduling Procedures
Scheduling Flow Chart for New Requests for Service
Flow Charts for What to Do in Case of No-shows or Fill-ins
Scheduling Code System
Forms including the following:
Caregiver Job Log
Scheduling Incident Report
scheduling module -- Price if sold separately: $149
Geriatric Care Management Module
The "quality assurance" component of your business resides in the social workers, nurses or Geriatric Care Planners who are providing the in-home supervision and the community liaisons for your business. This module provides information on what a Geriatric Care Manager does as well as provides information for your clients on the benefits of using a Geriatric Care Manager as a marketing and quality assurance component of the business.
Geriatric Care Manager Responsibilities and Duties
Benefits of Geriatric Care Management
Regularly Scheduled Visit Standards
Checklist for Geriatric Care Management Client Visits
Forms including the following:
Authorization to Release Medical Information
Home Safety Checklist
Plan of Care
Activities and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Examples (ADL and IADL)
geriatric care management module -- Price if sold separately: $149
The Care Plan Book is a three-ring binder left in the home for notes on care, to record daily menus, list emergency contacts, record petty cash and household expenditures and to monitor grocery items for daily menus.
Client Fact Sheet
Plan of Care
Caregiver Visit Record
Daily Food Record
Expense Form
Caregiver and Office Staff Mileage Record
care plan book forms -- Price if sold separately: $149
Administrative Employee Policies and Procedures Manual
This module is designed to provide useful information about the company and to serve as a policies, procedures and rules reference for administrative employees.
Standard Company Policies
Employee Benefits Descriptions
Emergency and Disaster Procedures
Forms including the following:
Organizational Chart
Review Sheet
administrative employee policies and procedures manual -- Price if sold separately: $250
Caregiver Employee Policies and Procedures Manual
This is a complete handbook formatted for you to edit based on specific services and benefits that is given to caregivers upon hire and intended to acquaint them with your company and provide them with information and a general understanding of your working conditions, employee benefits, and personnel policies. It describes employee responsibilities, outlines the programs your company offers and answers many common employment questions.
Office Information
History of Company
Company Mission
Job Descriptions/Caregiver Duties
Employment Procedures
Standard Company Rules
Training Requirements
Description of Benefits
Grievance Procedure
Emergency and Disaster Plan and Procedures
Employee's Acknowledgement
caregiver employee policies and procedures manual -- Price if sold separately: $250
If you want to know how to grow your business and get your agency noticed, this module is a perfect fit. It not only includes information on how to obtain inquiries and turn them into clients, but also helps you with developing your entire marketing strategy.
Where and How to Get Referrals
Selling and Lead Generation Tactics
How to Keep Customers
Communications and Promotion Strategy Guides
Procedures for Inquiries for Service (comes with list of frequently asked questions)
Home Assessment Tips
Caregiver Assignment Tips
Marketing Plan Brainstorming Session Tools
Forms including the following:
Inquiry Form
Telephone Tips for Inquiries
Letters in Response to Inquiries (6 step inquiry to sales process)
Request for Service
Exit Letter
Client Evaluation
marketing module -- Price if sold separately: $199
** Private Duty Business Manual intended for single site usage only - licenses available for multiple sites. Please contact corecubed to inquire.
The Private Duty Business Manual with all modules is a $1,694 value: yours for only $1500
This is a valuable resource for a successful home care business!
WE CAN PERSONALIZE YOUR MANUAL WITH YOUR COMPANY'S BRAND
- Once purchased, you can either choose to download the files from our ftp site or we can mail a CD to you with all the files on it. All files will be in template form in Microsoft Word.
- Next, work with your attorney and/or business advisors to edit the highlighted/red sections as appropriate to work within your state licensure/regulations and add your specific services and employee benefits offered.
- Then send the edited manual back to corecubed with files for logos and PMS colors and we will drop in your agency logo and colors to match your company branding. (proposed cost to be determined when edited files are received.)