Personal care assistance (PCA) services help a person with day-to-day activities in their home and community. Individuals need services due to physical, emotional, cognitive, or social struggles. PCAs help people with activities of daily living, health-related procedures and tasks, observation and redirection of behaviors and instrumental activities of daily living for adults. PCA services are available to eligible people enrolled in a Minnesota Health Care Program.
Our PCA’s are qualified to provide these services in the home and community:
- Bathing, grooming, hair washing, dressing, skin care
- Bowel and bladder care
- Transfers, positioning, turning, mobility, ambulation
- Range of motion and strengthening exercises to maintain the optimal level of functioning
- Respiratory assistance
- Tracheotomy suctioning using a clean procedure
- Application and maintenance of prosthetics and orthotics
- Cleaning medical equipment, cleaning in relationship to cares provided, assisting with instrumental activities of daily living
- Redirection, monitoring, assisting, and observing/prompting that are integral to cares
- Redirection and intervention for behaviors, including observation and monitoring
- Interventions for seizure disorders as instructed by the Qualified Professional and Responsible Party, where applicable
