In New York all Home Health Aides must successfully complete a training and competency evaluation program or a competency program conducted by an approved home health aide training program (regardless of whether the employer is receiving Medicare funding). New York defines, in law, the activities a Home Health Aide is allowed to do, and those that they are not. Allowable health related activities include:
- Preparation of meals in accordance with modified diets or complex modified diets;
- Medications Reminders;
- Provision of special skin care;
- Use of medical equipment, supplies and devices;
- Change of dressing to stable surface wounds;
- Performance of simple measurements and tests to routinely monitor the patient’s medical condition;
- Performance of a maintenance exercise program; and
- Care of an ostomy after the ostomy has achieved its normal function
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