HHA services are medically oriented tasks a person needs to maintain health or to facilitate treatment of an illness or injury. A physician must order the services and the person delivering the services must have professional supervision by a certified agency.

Services Include: 

• Help with personal cares such as bathing, dressing, grooming, feeding, toileting, routine catheter and colostomy care, ambulating, transfers or positioning

• Simple dressing changes that do not require the skills of a licensed nurse

• Help with medications that are ordinarily self-administered and do not require the skill of a licensed nurse for safe and effective provision

• Help with activities that are directly supportive of skilled therapy services but do not require the skill of a therapist to be safely and effectively performed, such as routine maintenance exercises

• Routine care of prosthetic and orthotic devices

• Incidental household services necessary to the provision of one of the above health related services