Services
Service With You in Mind
We have several services that we offer to help make the lives of our clients significantly easier, including:
- Our caregivers are specially trained on Alzheimer’s and other dementias to provide an array of services to your loved ones.
- Our caregivers are specially trained in hospice to provide an array of services to your loved ones such as social, emotional, and spiritual
support.
- BCS workers can provide assistance with daily living cleaning services.
- Assist with care around the clock. Regular attention during the night, usually not safe to leave the client unattended for anything other than short periods.
- Potential environmental safety hazards are assessed in clients home care settings.
- Caregivers are there to monitor clients without restricting them or
becoming overbearing. - Home safety supervision is provided by every Berakah Care Service team member that enters your home and is designed to offer you and your loved one an added layer of security and peace of mind.
- To insure mobility. Standing on the side of the client to administer proper aid for the treatment of walking, moving up and down, and other forms of mobility.
- BCS workers may assist clients who are unable to be bathed in a tub or shower only when the following requirements are met.
- The caregiver is trained in the particular methods required to perform a bed bath.
- The client or client’s representative shall participate or give directions regarding the bathing process to the caregiver.
- BCS must conduct a competency evaluation of the caregivers ability to employ the methods required to perform a bed bath.
- Assist clients with dressing. This may include assistance with ordinary
clothing, stockings, and the type that does not need a physician’s prescription.
- Assist clients with exercise. Exercise support that is provided passively is confined to urging the client to move their bodies normally as tolerated and to encouraging them to follow a set exercise regimen that is prescribed.
- Assist clients with feeding. Guiding the position of remaining upright, having the ability to swallow on their own.
- Assist clients with hair care. Administering hair maintenance and the patients personal appearance of their hair (drying, combing and styling). This may include washing with non-medicated shampoo or conditioner that does not require a physician’s prescription.
- Assist clients with mouth care. Denture maintenance and fundamental oral hygiene practices, such as oral suctioning for mouth care, may be included.
- Assist clients with nail care. Nail filing, cuticle pushing back without the use of tools, and nail soaking are possible. We do not provide nail trimming.
- Assist clients with positioning. Help a patient with positioning only when professional skin care is not necessary in connection with the posture and the client is able to communicate to the personal care staff when the position needs to be modified, whether vocally, nonverbally, or through others. Simple alignment in a bed, wheelchair, or other piece of furniture can be considered positioning.
- Assist clients with shaving. We only help clients with their electric or safety razor shaving.
- General skin care preventative measures. When skin is intact, when any current chronic skin conditions are not present, and when non-medicated lotions and solutions may be applied. Or of creams and solutions that don’t need a prescription from a doctor.
- Staffing on an interim basis for residential homes and skilled nursing facilities (SNFs).
- For treatments including wound care, high-tech infusion, Foley care, diabetes management, competent observation and evaluation, psychiatric one-to-one therapy, medication monitoring, and many more nursing operations. We provide both full medication monitoring services in accordance with a treatment plan prepared by the client’s attending physician by Registered Nurses and Licensed Practical Nurses.
- Assist clients to and from the bathroom.
- Help clients get to and from the restroom; offer assistance with bed pans, urinals, and commodes; administer pericare; or change garments and any type of pad used for incontinence care.
- A home health aide may empty or replace external urine collecting devices like suprapubic catheters or catheter bags.
- Only when there is no need for specialized skin care, observation, or reporting to a nurse, may a home services professional help a patient with other client-directed ostomy care.
Only help with transfers when the client has the strength and balance to stably stand, turn, and provide some assistance. Transfers may make use of adaptive and safety equipment as long as the client is thoroughly trained in its use and can guide the transfer step by step.
- As long as the home services worker has received the necessary training, they may utilize wheelchairs, tub seats, and grab gait belts as safety equipment. When the client is unable to help with the transfer, a home services worker may not assist. Only when the following requirements are satisfied by home services employees may they help clients in using a mechanical or electrical transfer device.
- The licensed organization ought to have instructed the home services worker on how to utilize the mechanical or electrical transfer equipment. The agency must have evaluated the worker’s proficiency with the sort of equipment that is present in the house, and the client or client representative must be able toguide the transfer step-by-step.
- Assist a client with medication reminders.
- Only in cases where drugs are pre-selected by the client, a family member, a nurse, or a pharmacist and are kept in containers other than prescription bottles, such medication minders. Medication reminder containers must have the day and time of dosage clearly indicated on them.
- Inquiries about whether drugs have been taken, verbal reminders to take prescriptions, giving the client the suitably labeled medication minder container, and opening the container for the client if the client is physically unable to do so are all examples of medication reminders. All prescription drugs as well as all over-the-counter medicines are subject to these restrictions. Any abnormalities with the pre-selected medications—such as taking them too frequently, not frequently enough, or not at the right time as specified in the written instructions—must be reported right away to the supervisor by the home care worker.
Jonathan.berakahcare@gmail.com
(781) 520-3587
Revere, MA, 02151
Hours of Operation: 9:00am – 5:00pm Eastern Time Zone (ET)
