Personal Care Assistance (PCA) Services

Our Personal Care Assistance (PCA) services are person-centered, ensuring that your individual needs are met so you can feel the utmost level of comfort within your own home. Following your personalized plan of care developed by our compassionate Qualified Professionals, our trained PCAs can assist you with your day-to-day living activities, including but not limited to the following:

• Bathing
• Dressing
• Grooming
• Mobility
• Eating
• Positioning
• Transferring
• Toileting
• Health Related tasks
• Behavior Monitoring

To Qualify for Personal Care Assistance services

To be eligible for PCA services, contact your county assessor or insurance company to get a PCA assessment about whether your current health condition would qualify you for personal care assistance. Still have questions? Contact us today at (612)-448-3888 or fill out this form.

Homemaking (HMK) Services

Our homemaker services help create a safe, clean, and comfortable living environment so you can live at home independently with a greater sense of confidence and security. Homemakers can make all the difference in the life of an elderly or disabled person. They come into a client’s home and help with tasks keeping the client safe in the home.

Homemaker services help a person with general cleaning and household activities. HMK services are available to eligible individuals enrolled in a Minnesota Health Care Program.

Who is eligible for homemaker services?

The person may receive homemaker services when either:

• The person is unable to manage the general cleaning and household activities
• The primary caregiver who is regularly responsible for these activities is unable to manage them or is temporarily absent

What services are provided?

Homemakers responsibilities may include:

• Bathroom Cleaning
• Kitchen Cleaning
• Vacuuming
• Dusting
• Washing Dishes
• Laundry
• Changing Linens
• Removing Trash

If your loved one is in need of homemaking services, please contact us. If you have any questions regarding homemaking services and limitations, please reach out to us. We are here to help.

Contact us today at (612)-448-3888 or fill out this form.

Waivered 245D Programs

245D Services can help you acquire or regain independence in your home or community.  Our highly trained Direct Support Providers (DSPs) will help you reach your goals and aspirations by learning about what’s important in your life, then mapping a plan to get you where you want to be.  Our staff keep you engaged with your community and help you complete meaningful activities in your life.  By allowing our DSPs into your life, you allow peace of mind to be restored.

Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 245D, regulates the provision of home and community-based services to persons with disabilities and persons age 65 and older.  Services that require a 245D license are broken into two groups: basic services and intensive services.  Basic and intensive services both provide the level of care necessary to ensure the health and welfare of the person receiving the service.  The primary difference is that basic services are directed toward supervision; whereas intensive services are specifically intended to train, treat, and habilitate or re-habilitate the person.

WECARE4U currently provides both Basic Support Services and Intensive Support Services. To learn more about each of the listed individual services, please read on the individual services below. If you have any questions, please give our 245D Designated Manager a call at (612-448-3888).

Basic Support Services

24-hour emergency assistance; Adult companion services; Homemaker; Individual community living support; Individualized home supports; Night supervision; Personal support; Respite care; In home or out-of-home

In-home Support Services

In-home family support; Independent living skills training; Individualized home supports; Individualized home supports with family training; Individualized  home supports with training; Semi-independent living skills; Supported living services for adults.

Employment Services

Employment development services; Employment exploration services; Employment support services.

Still have questions? Contact us today at (612)-448-3888 or fill out this form.

To Qualify for 245D Services

The eligibility requirements for waivers are the prerequisites for obtaining these waivered services; meaning that you must be approved for the brain injury (BI), community alternative care (CAC), community alternatives for disabled individuals (CADI), developmental disabilities (DD), or elderly waivers prior to beginning your search for a provider that will supply ILS, In-home family support, etc. Depending on which waiver you pick and are approved for, that will determine which services are available to you. You can select from a variety of services with each waiver, and pick as many as appropriate based on the budget that is allowed. Often times recipients have a combination of services with each designed to accomplish different, predetermined goals.

Of the 245D services that WECARE4U currently provides, ILS can be supported with the BI, CAC, or CADI waivers. Personal support and residential habilitation services like in-home family support and supported living services can only be supported with the DD waiver.

Case managers from Ramsey County have said getting into a waiver is highly regulated and difficult. Priority goes to those who need the services most. There is a waiting list with over 1000 people on it and in some instances, someone could wait as long as ten years. Prior to being approved for a waiver, a person must undergo extensive screening. For example in the case of a DD waiver, a person will need to first be eligible for MN Rule 185, which governs the provision of case management administration and services to persons with developmental disabilities. To be eligible for Rule 185, a comprehensive diagnostic evaluation from a licensed professional is required of the person and it must show that the person has significant developmental disabilities or related conditions. This is just one step, among others, in getting approved for a DD waiver. Most of the people who are approved have mild, moderate, or severe mental retardation. In some rare cases, autism accompanied with maladaptive behavior will qualify someone for Rule 185 case management and the DD waiver. However, even after being approved for Rule 185, it does not guarantee that a person will receive the DD waiver.

The services themselves do not have eligibility criteria. If someone truly desired any of these services, and are unable to get the waivers, they could receive them if it was privately purchased. If you feel that yourself or a loved one may benefit from any of these services and need assistance with where to start, WECARE4U can help direct you to the governing state agencies to apply for assistance in these programs.

Electronic Visit Verification (EVV)

Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) is a law that requires home care agencies to track and verify the location, time and type of personal care services their caregivers provide to their clients. EVV must capture the following information: The type of service, Personal Care Service with code T1019; what caregiver provided the service; the exact start time and end time; and the location (usually captured via GPS but there are other methods).

Caregivers that provide personal care services to clients on a home care visit are required to login electronically with the client’s receiving agency before the visit. This login is part of a law called the 21st Century Cures Act.

WECARE4U offers easy-to-use software that complies with the Cures Act. We offer training and support on the software whenever needed. Our software ensures that all of our caregivers are up-to-date and compliant with EVV laws in the state of Minnesota.

Please contact us to learn more about EVV with WECARE4U.