Starting a home care/ home health agency

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I am an LPN and I want to start a home care/ home health and PRN staffing agency. Any ideas where to start?

eligrace said:
I am an LPN and I want to start a home care/ home health and PRN staffing agency. Any ideas where to start?

Being an LPN would you not need an RN to oversee the charting? I work for a home care agency and need to be overseen by an RN.

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Contact a consultants. They get you licensed, accredited. They make life easy. If you want anything on ALFs I am not sure though, these seem to only be for home health care and home care agencies. Good luck.

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I am confused as to why a site survey is required for a home health angency. Isn't the site the patients homes?

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underpaidrn said:

It is extremely difficult to start a home health agency. There are many rules and regulations you need to follow, not to mention a $50,000 surety bond and heavy insurance. As an LPN, you could not be in charge of your agency. You would have to hire an RN to be the administrator. Also, if you are going for Medicare/Medicaid certification, you must take 7 active patients for FREE until the Medicare people show up for your initial survey. This includes paying all of your staff, medical supplies, etc. It's a very costly venture to start up. I would first start with your state's licensing agency to get a copy of the rules and regs you need to follow. Next step would be to hire competent staff, which you will have to pay out of pocket since you will have no income for a while. I wish you the best of luck. I've started three of them from scratch and it's a LOT of hard work.

I didn't see any mention in your comment that this person was planning to start a skilled home healthcare business. Without this information you comment about needing an RN to head the agency is a fallacy (at least here in ohio. The 50,000 you threw around as a big factor cost me $75 a month. You almost seem intent on keeping this person from getting into a business with great growth potential, low startup cost and a 33% average profit margin. Are you a provider that is trying to discourage competition or just I'll informed and let to provide you (wring in this case) opinion

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