Start A Home Care Businessadmin2019-04-16T15:38:06+00:00

21st Century Health Care Consultants

Opportunities to start a home health care business are more abundant than ever before. This is mainly due to the increase in elderly population as well as the baby boomer generation. Most retired Americans prefer to be cared for in the comfort of their own homes. Our home health care consultants can help you become certified to open a home health care agency or start a home health care business. In a USA Today news article, journalist Kelly Kennedy reported on the top 5 most profitable businesses in the United States. Accordingly, the home health care business made the list. The article also cited home health care business owner satisfaction and nearly immediate returns on investments.

Thanks to high demand, low overhead, and respectable ROI, home health care, especially for seniors, is growing exponentially.The home health care business industry is typically averaging 25% to 35% net profit.

In order to meet the ever-increasing demand for home health care agencies, more quality home health care training will need to be implemented. Because of this demand, we crafted an industry-leading home health care training program. At 21st Century Health Care Consultants, we take the hassle out of your home health care startup business endeavor. We make the home health care startup process fun, rewarding, and profitable.

We have a win-win solution for you! Our home health care startup program will help you start a home health care business or open a home health care agency without franchise or royalty fees. With over 20 years’ experience, we provide the most comprehensive home health care training program in the industry. Our home health care agency consultants will ensure your home health care startup becomes a lucrative investment while making a difference in patient’s lives.

Home Health Care Licensing Requirements

At 21st Century Health Care Consultants, we handle every aspect of obtaining a home health care license for you. First, we complete your states’ home health care license application plus all additional required home health care license paperwork. Second, our home health care consultants proceed with incorporating your home health care business. And third, we secure a Tax ID and NPI number. Every state has different home health care license and operation requirements. For this reason, our home health care consultants are well-informed in every state. We not only assure that you will get your home health care license, but we also eliminate the headache of doing it yourself. As a result, the process for you to start a home health care business or open a home health care agency becomes less overwhelming and more productive.

Home Health Care Policies, Procedures and Operational Materials

21st Century’s home health care startup process includes all required home health care policy and procedure manuals. These manuals are written to meet state standards and are customized to your home health care business, including the logo, staff, and office details. Additionally, the home health care startup process includes all operation forms and documents needed to start a home health care business. This ensures compliancy with State and Federal regulations.

Medicare and Private Duty Accreditation

As part of your home health care training, we teach your staff how to eliminate accreditation deficiencies in order to pass accreditation site survey inspections. Our core home health care consultants are former CHAP Accrediting Body Senior Site Supervisors. We perform an on-site mock home health care accreditation audit. The on-site audit consists of a complete review of your agency’s operations. Accordingly, our mock auditing procedures are similar to those of the accreditation site surveyor. This enables you to be prepared for a private duty certification.

Coaching (Ongoing Support from our Home Health Care Consultants)

At your convenience, our certified senior home health care consultants provide ongoing support via phone or email. Our home health care consultants are dedicated to supporting you with overcoming the challenges and obstacles you may encounter when operating a successful home health care agency. With this in mind, operating a successful home health care business depends on having all the building blocks in place. Our home health care consultants are committed to helping you establish your business while increasing recognition in your market area. Our coaches will assist you with understanding the requirements around providing services in relation to the activities of daily living.

Lifetime Training & Support Program

When you’re in need of home health care agency consulting, 21st Century Health Care Consultants has you covered! With our lifetime home health care training and support program, our home health care consultants are available to assist you at no additional cost. Whether it’s admitting patients, obtaining new clients, marketing techniques, or even how to handle medical emergencies, we offer home health care training seminars on any topic you need. Our home health care training seminars are 4 days in length and held quarterly. They’re available at no extra cost to you or your current and future employees. This is an amazing perk when you operate a home health care startup or open a home health care agency with us.

Marketing

Marketing can be an area that’s overlooked when planning to operate a home health care startup. However, effective marketing is essential when growing your business and spreading the word. 21st Century provides a fully customized website, complete with search engine optimization (SEO), tailored specifically for your home health care business. The goal of your SEO website is to have your business achieve first page presence on search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing. It’s no secret that a strong internet presence is vital for a successful business, and we give you the tools you need to succeed online. In addition, we design and provide you with customized business cards and brochures to satisfy your offline marketing desires. All marketing files and materials belong to you and your business.

Online Home Health Care Training Academy

Also included when you start a home health care business or open a home health care agency is access to our online home health care training academy. Access to the academy is for anyone in your company and it includes, but is not limited to the following:

More than 30 Educational Videos
Home Health Care Business Training Materials
Marketing and Advertising Materials
Interactive Forum
Networking (network with our entire database of existing home health care businesses)
24-hour Message Board

Access to State of the Art, Cloud-Based Software

Being able to login from anywhere in the world and on any device, our cloud-based software saves your agency time and money. This state of the art software helps you virtually operate your entire agency while reducing office staff expenses. With our robust software, once you start a home health care business or open a home health care agency, you can practically set it to autopilot. Here are some key features of our operational software:

Client Scheduling
Referral Tracking
Caregiver HR Network Access
Caregiver Time Tracking via Smart Phone GPS App
Family Portal Access (your patient’s family can login and view how their loved one is being cared for).

Monthly Webinars

To further your expertise, we host monthly webinars to support you on your home health care business journey. Our informational webinars give you the guidance you need to open a home health care agency.

Some of the webinar topics include:

Preparing for Your Licensing Inspection
Choices for Your Home Health Care Agency
Patient Care & Documentation
Infection Control
HIPAA & Ethical Issues
Human Resources
Employment Protocols
Business Development
Branding and Marketing Strategies

Home Infusion Therapy and Wound Care Training Program

Did you know 90% or more of hospitalized patients are receiving some form of infusion therapy? Because of this statistic, it’s an exciting time to enter the home health infusion therapy arena. Give your home health care agency a competitive edge by providing infusion therapy as a specialty program. The average reimbursement for 1 infusion therapy patient referred to you by an infusion pharmacy is around $1,625.00 for 13 visits. That’s equivalent to $125.00 per visit! We train you on how to provide and market these services not only to infusion pharmacies but also to worker’s compensation and commercial insurances.

Patient Referral Program

As our valued client, we provide patient referrals exclusively for you and your business. Further, we offer a home health care resource guide for patients in need of home health care services throughout the country. In addition to our network of resources, we have a featured business directory. Once your agency completes our standards of excellence program, it becomes eligible to appear in the directory. The home health care businesses featured in this directory are as a result of attending our comprehensive home health care training programs.

Proprietary Pricing

As the industry leader in home health care consulting, we’re able to share our proprietary pricing with our clients. This special pricing can save you thousands of dollars!* These discounts are provided exclusively to 21st Century Health Care Consultant clients only. Examples of this pricing include:

$2,200 off the normal fees for Private Duty Accreditation
$1,500 off re-certification fees
$2,000 off our exclusive client insurance package
20% off through the Medicaid Waiver Network
25% off on our SEO Program
$1,500 discount provided by the Institute of Professional Education
Exclusive partnership agreement with ClearCare software
Additional savings agreements are in place for our clients with several operational software and billing companies

We’re Leaders in the Home Health Care Consulting Industry…

Why settle for a “membership company” or small consultant group when you can work with the largest network of home health care consultants in the industry? We’ve worked with home health care business startups in every state and guarantee our home health care startup process. Our home health care consultants provide ongoing consulting to you and your staff. We’re always available to answer questions or address any concerns you may have.

…And we have Results that Prove Our Success

Established in 1995, 21st Century Health Care Consultants has been in business for more than 24 years! We have assisted well over 3,000 home health care business startups. We’re proud to employ a team of more than 40 full-time employees, all with specific fields of expertise. Most home care franchise companies and home health care consultant businesses can’t compare to those stats. We have 8 Masters Prepared Registered Nurses on staff. Among these Registered Nurses is our CEO, Rosina McFadden. Rosina is a former Senior CHAP Accreditation Site Surveyor of 15 years. She pioneered New York’s Long Term Home Health Care Program, which has become the model for home care as we know it today.

Explore the Results

21st Century Health Care Consultants is the premier home health care consulting company. You won’t find another business in the industry with as many clients, references, or full-time employees as 21st Century Health Care Consultants. Let us help you start a home health care business or open a home health care agency. Although our stats and numbers are quite impressive, we encourage you to explore the results for yourself. Hear it straight from our satisfied client testimonials.

World-Class Home Health Training & Consulting

In the Home Health Business, keeping your agency up-to-date with all clinical compliance standards is absolutely critical in providing quality care. 21st Century Healthcare Consultants is committed to providing the very best training that the industry has to offer. Lifetime Training: You and your management team can attend Boot Camp training's for FREE for as long as you own your agency.If you’re not a startup client, you can still attend our Boot Camps for a very reasonable fee. Our four and five day Learning workshops are each held four times a year for the following In-Home Care Businesses:

Personal / Companion care (non skilled)
Private duty / Medicare (skilled care) Hospice
Durable Medical Equipment
Non Emergency Transportation

Advanced Workshops: For established agencies, we provide advanced training workshops, including:

ICD10 Coding & Oasis Training
Wound Care Training
Infusion Therapy Training
Advanced Workshop for Medicare-Certified Agencies

When you become a 21st Century Health Care Consultants client, your agency will be a patient referral source for the nation’s only Home Health Care Discount program.

21st Century Health Care Consultants is proud to announce a partnership with AON / Affinity. Forming the nation’s only Home Health Care Discount service program. This program will provide discounts on home health care services and will be offered to over 25 million of AON / Affinity clients enrolled in their health care insurance programs. Patient opportunities for Home Health care services will be provided by clients of 21st Century Health Care Consultants.

This program is presently being test piloted in the state of Florida. It will be soon offered in Texas, California, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Maryland.