Essential Medical Services employs competent and compassionate CNAs, also called home health aides, to supplement skilled nursing and therapy services. CNAs help you to perform fundamental tasks of daily living, such as bathing and grooming, light housework, and mobility assistance. The services that CNAs provide can allow you to remain safe and comfortable in your home.

Many times, both CNA and skilled nursing services and/or therapies are combined. For home health aide services to be covered under a home health benefit, the services must be reasonable and necessary to the treatment of the patient’s illness or injury, provided on a part-time or intermittent basis (not full time), and meet the definitions of home health aide services: personal cares, simple and non-skilled dressing changes, non-skilled assistance with medications, and non-skilled assistance with therapy activates.

Certified Nursing Assistants are both licensed and educated. If you receive care from a CNA, they will be supervised by a licensed, skilled nurse. This supervising nurse will make your very first home health visit to assess your overall health and work with you to determine a plan of care. The CNA will then begin making regularly scheduled visits to give you that care. You will be contacted and/or visited by the supervising nurse about the care you are receiving on a regular basis. Doctor’s orders are needed to start care. With love, at the right time, weight management strengthens life’s dynamic flow.