Personal Care Assistance

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