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Home Sweet Home Care, Inc. |
Independent Caregivers |
- Caregiver Back-up & Flexibility
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· Home Sweet Home Care staff is available at all times. If your home care requirements increase, we are ready and capable to fill that need. We can provide care 24 hours/day and 365 days a year.
· With Home Sweet Home Care Inc. you also have the flexibility to decrease or discontinue your homecare temporarily, due to vacations, a weekend away or holiday away with family, knowing that we are just a phone call away when you need us again.
· Our minimum requirement in any given week is two four-hour shifts or 1 8-hr shift.
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· None.
· Any backup or increase in required care is completely up to you.
· Any decrease in your care needs could result in your caregiver leaving you to work for someone else who can provide more hours.
· It would be difficult to find an independent caregiver willing to work only eight hours a week.
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- Bonded and insured home care staff
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· Home Sweet Home Care's staff are bonded and insured to protect our clients. Home Sweet Home Care Inc maintains and updates all policies for our staff. |
· Most of the time there is none. If there is, then it is up to you to verify and monitor the bonded and insured status of the caregiver(s) in your home. |
- Quality control and supervision of the caregiver
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· All our client's care levels are carefully monitored and supervised by a Home Sweet Home Care supervisor.
· Periodic spot visits are performed by the Supervisor and our CSA to assure service quality.
· Our caregivers are given performance reviews on a regular basis as well as ongoing training to enhance their skills.
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· None - Staff is completely independent and supervises itself. Any monitoring of the service they provide will have to come from you. |
- External Independent Feedback
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· Home Sweet Home Care is a member of the Better Business Bureau and Subscribes to the services of RatePoint to encourage independent and external reviews of their services
· Surveys are conducted by an independent company to assess both our client and our caregivers concerns and satisfaction. |
· It is rare to find an Independent who will invest the time or money into external sources of review. At best you will receive “selective” testimonials that you may or may not be able to verify. |
- Thorough criminal background checks, driving records, TB test and drug testing on caregivers
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· All Caregivers are carefully screened at the time of hire with several layers of background checks.
· A complete driving record is obtained.
· A negative TB test is required.
· Random drug testing is a matter of policy.
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· Obtaining any of these is completely up to you. A background check alone can cost as much as $50-$100 for each person checked. |
- Payroll tax responsibility
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· Home Sweet Home Care Inc is responsible for all Taxes, and FICA, Federal, and State are calculated collected, reported, and remitted to the proper tax authorities as required by law.
· We do not use independent contractors ever!
· When you pay Home Sweet Home Care Inc. for caregiver services, you are paying a corporation for a service. You are NOT paying an employee.
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· As an employer of a caregiver, you become responsible for collecting and filing payroll taxes from your employees' wages. This means you are required to pay a matching amount of social security and Medicare taxes for your employees and to pay State and Federal unemployment tax. Yes, this is in addition to what you withhold from your employee's wages.
· Simply filing out a 1099 will not protect you from being responsible for “employer” taxes and penalties should the IRS decide your caregiver is an employee. You can learn more here. |
- Worker's compensation covers any caregiver's on-the-job injury
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· Home Sweet Home Care Inc.'s staff is covered by worker's compensation insurance. |
· None. A private individual can sue you if injured while working for you. |
