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Collier Home Care recommends to caregivers that they maintain individual malpractice insurance. We recommend that a caregiver maintain minimum coverage $500,000 per incident and a total of $1,000,000. You can ask a caregiver to provide a certificate of insurance (COI).

The caregivers on our registry are independent contractors relative to Collier Home Care; they are not our employees. All caregivers have been carefully screened before they are eligible for referral to a client.

As a nurse registry, we support consumer-managed home care. Family, guardians, and friends are the closest to the client and should be frequently available in the home to ensure the caregiver is providing the best care possible and, in the manner desired. However, if...

When a caregiver provides live-in care, he or she lives in your home and generally will need personal time to eat and sleep. 24-hour care is continuous care day and night. If you need a caregiver to be awake at all times, 24-hour care would be a better fit with...

We collaborate with long term care insurance companies to help you complete the necessary documentation to obtain reimbursement. We also are able to directly bill your long term care insurance company and accept an assignment of benefits from it. Direct assignment...

We bill weekly, based on the invoices we receive from caregivers, by sending an email invoice from QuickBooks Online to you or the person who is financially responsible for your care, which can be reviewed and paid directly from the invoice statement.

A deposit of one to two weeks of services is required at commencement of a referral, depending on the method of pay selected by the client or his or her designee. Collier Home Care accepts a variety of payment methods, listed below: Private pay Long Term Care...

We have a Client Service Agreement that must be signed but it can be canceled upon 24 hours’ notice if your needs change or for any other reason. A client is not contractually obligated to any fixed amount of services.

There are a lot of factors involved in maintaining a long-term relationship between a client and a caregiver. Once you commence working with a caregiver we refer to you, you and the caregiver can work together for as long as the two of you wish. We will not interfere...

We strongly recommend that you meet with a referred caregiver prior to engagement. This person will spend many hours with you, so it is important that you are comfortable with and have confidence in the caregiver.

Yes! We will refer to you a caregiver based on the preferences you and caregivers have communicated to us. It is always up to you to decide whether to hire a caregiver Collier Home Care refers to you. If your caregiver is not a good match for you for any reason, and...

A Nurse Registry is a referral company licensed by the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA). It maintains lists of independent-contractor caregivers and refers them to potential clients, upon request. Caregivers are carefully screened prior to referral...