Personal Care Business

As a personal care business owner, you have the ability to offer all of the services of a companion care business as well as additional services that have to do with activities of daily living. A personal care business can offer hands-on services. A companion care business cannot. For this reason, most home care agencies offer personal care services. A personal care business can provide all services under the non-skilled umbrella.

In most states, you need to acquire a license to start a personal care business. You will be required to have a personal care business license in California, Florida, Texas, Nevada, Georgia, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, North Carolina, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Kansas. This license is required because personal care services provided hands-on assistance to patients in areas of activities in their daily living. There are several states that do not require a personal care license, they are Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Iowa, Idaho, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi, New Mexico, Ohio, and Vermont. Presently they’re only a few states whereby dual licenses are required for personal care businesses and /or companion care businesses. Another factor in considering opening a personal care business is staffing and requirements. These may differ accordingly to the state that the agency will be doing business in.

The personal care business is the backbone of our healthcare system in many ways. A personal care business will help to reduce hospitalization rates and is typical, the only alternative the handicapped, elderly and their families have when faced with the fear of admission into a nursing home or assisted living facility. A personal care business will care for the patient in their home allowing them to live independently in their home.