API recognizes that you have many options in caregiving to consider and that choosing that special caregiver who truly cares and understands you or your loved one is what is most important to you. When you place your trust in API, it is taken to heart.
API offers you the security of its experience, resources, and capabilities to respond rapidly and skillfully to your call for help. With over thirty-five years in service and an impressive network of qualified caregivers, API devotes its considerable resources to ensure, on a very personal level, that you receive top-quality, reliable care at the best value. But first and foremost, API truly CARES to add more "life" to your living and is wholly dedicated to your comfort, security, and peace of mind.
For clients with medical or developmental disabilities, API offers services to increase your control in life, including personal care, in-home support, and skilled nursing care.
Through API’s vast network of experienced nurses or home health aides, API provides home healthcare services within the comforts of your home, wherever you call home. Be it in a facility or a private home, API can provide assistance with everyday living activities, homemaker services, companionship, and respite care for family/friend caregivers to the management of complex medical conditions.
Our caregivers have experience in specialty care programs and services:
“I just wanted to let you know how fortunate we are to have your caregivers in our home. The level of care that we received is exceptional. Our previous experience with a different agency wasn’t good, but with your home care agency, it’s been wonderful!”
- Tom & L., Coon R.
“The care you provided to our mother was outstanding! Our caregiver was so caring and provided my sisters and me with support during and after our mother’s death. Thank you so much!”
- Christine, B.
“Thank you so much for providing such wonderful care for my wife. Your caregivers are so skilled and show so much compassion to her. You’re a valuable asset to her well-being!”
- Michael, E.
“We would like to thank you for all the nurses that took care of our Dad during his last days. The services that your home care agency provided made it possible for us to spend valuable time with him. Your nurses were first-rate!"
- Jenny, M.
"I want to thank you for providing me with such top-notch aides to assist me in my transition to handicap living. It has been a joy to get to know and work with everyone."
- Kathi, M.
API is licensed by the Minnesota Department of Health as a Supplemental Staffing and Comprehensive Home Care Agency, which allows us to provide the broadest services.
There are many things you need to consider if you explore this option:
First of all, think about the time, cost, and potential danger of hiring underqualified, inexperienced, and unsupervised people into your home. Fortunately for you, when you work with API, we put our 27+ years of experience to work for you in linking you with the right, highly qualified professional. Our field employees have a minimum of one year of full-time home care experience. In addition, API has already thoroughly screened the professional assigned to you. You are assured of getting the best care in the industry and that we've conducted thorough criminal background checks, verified credentials, and checked professional references.
Secondly, it's important to understand that when you hire in-home care on your own, you become the employer and are now technically responsible for all employee expenses and liabilities, including federal and state payroll taxes, worker's compensation, and liability insurance. Most alarmingly, you are liable for any injury your helper may experience while at your home.
However, when you hire an API caregiver, we hold responsibility for all employee expenses and liabilities, including injuries!
Sometimes, just like people everywhere, our employees get sick or have unforeseen circumstances that keep them from work. When that happens, API's staffing team goes to work to find a replacement for you. With more than 55 home health aides on our roster, we'll have a highly qualified substitute at your door in no time!
API caregivers can be there as few as four hours in a single day or as many as 24 hours/7 days a week. It's up to you and your family. Once a care plan is created and agreed upon, services can begin.
Absolutely! Clients frequently choose API for a short-term need, for example, following a hospital stay, recovery from surgery, or TCU discharge. Further, clients also turn to us for respite care, allowing the primary caregiver much-needed time to focus on their own needs. Again, our service times range anywhere from four to twenty-four hours a day.
We love this question because we can talk about our rigorous employee selection process that ensures you get the best home care in the business. Our caregivers have at least one year but an average of five years working in the field, so you benefit from our experience. Our performance requirements surpass industry standards, so we can continually strive to exceed your expectations.
We interview prospective employees face-to-face, screening not only for essential skills but also critical personal traits like service orientation, commitment, and integrity. Before anybody is offered an API position, we conduct criminal background checks and contact at least two professional references.
Only the top 50% of those interviewed make it to the next level of consideration for API employment. When we send one of our professionals to support you, you know you're getting the cream of the crop.
With API, you know you're getting the best possible caregivers and care. API home care professionals are licensed, bonded, and insured, and API holds a comprehensive home care agency license and supplemental staffing license. You are further assured of quality because API is audited by state and federal agencies. Our employees are covered under API's workman's compensation, general liability, and malpractice insurance. Further, all employees are OSHA and HIPAA trained, possess current licenses or credentials, have a current Mantoux/chest x-ray, are BLS/CPR trained, have cleared the criminal background checks and national sex offender list, and have completed our home care orientation.
Our full range of services includes homemaking, companionship, respite, personal, pre-and post-surgical, skilled medical, and hospice care.
We provide home care services wherever the home might be. We serve in private residences, group homes, independent living, assisted living facilities, nursing homes, hospices, and hospitals. We go wherever we are needed.
Typically, our clients look to us after Medicare, Medicaid, or supplemental insurance has run out or doesn't cover services. API accepts private pay, long-term care insurance, and worker's compensation as sources of payment.
Simply call API at 952-832-5101. One of our professional staffing coordinators will take your information and connect you with an API RN home care case manager, who will work with you to tailor a care plan.
How can API be of service to you? Call API at 952-832-5101 (Edina) or 651-227-1516 (St. Paul).
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