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VA Home Care Services

If you’re a veteran, or you care for a veteran, you may be able to qualify for home care or respite care through the VA. Our company, 417 Home Care, is able to provide personal care and respite care to our veteran community through this program.

What It Includes

Personal care and respite care cover a number of individual tasks. Which service you get will depend on your personal needs.

Personal Care

It can be difficult to keep up with personal grooming and other everyday care tasks, especially if you have limited mobility or any chronic issues. Our professional caregivers can help with bathing, grooming, dressing, and hair combing, for example. Having assistance with everyday hygiene can make a huge difference in how you feel on a daily basis. These tasks also fall under the definition of “activities of daily living” or ADL’s. If you want to learn more about ADL’s, see our previous blog post about it. In short, ADL’s are the basic daily activities you do to take care of yourself and your living space.

Respite Care

Respite care is meant to help family caregivers and the person they’re caring for at the same time. You can request respite care and take some time off of care giving while a professional caregiver stands in for you. This can cover a wide range of tasks, and depends on your veterans needs. It may include ADL’s like the personal care discussed above, but it may cover different tasks, depending on what you help your veteran with and what will need to be done while you are away.

Qualifying for Home Care

To qualify for home care through the VA, talk to your VA doctor. The only requirement is to have a need for assistance with ADL’s. If your quality of life would improve with personal care or respite care, there is a good change you’ll qualify. We are proud to be part of this program to assist our local veterans and the family caregivers that help them.

Your doctor can order VA services, or we would be happy to submit a referral on your behalf to the VA. Give us a call at 417-731-7087 for more information.

 

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At Haven Home Health and Hospice, we are proud to be the last locally-owned, independent, and clinician-led provider of home-based care in our region. While that may sound like a simple fact, it’s actually a defining difference—one that matters deeply to the quality of care our patients receive every day. In recent years, private equity firms and large corporate healthcare chains have rapidly bought out home health and hospice providers across the country, including right here in our community. What we’ve seen in the aftermath is troubling: rapid turnover of staff, shrinking time spent with patients, and decisions driven more by profit margins than by compassion, dignity, and clinical excellence. 

When ownership shifts from caregivers to corporations, priorities shift too. 

We believe healthcare should never be treated like a commodity. That’s why we’ve remained committed to local, clinician-led ownership—because we answer to patients, not shareholders. Our leadership is hands-on, involved, and invested in every life we touch. We believe that meaningful care takes time, intention, and heart—and it starts with the people who make the decisions. As owners who are also licensed clinicians, we understand the weight of the responsibility we carry. Our patients are not numbers in a spreadsheet. They are parents, grandparents, neighbors, and friends. And we believe they deserve the kind of care we’d want for our own families. We will continue to stand against the corporatization of healthcare, and we invite you to stand with us. Whether you’re a patient, a referral partner, or a member of the community, your trust makes it possible for us to preserve something rare and essential in today’s healthcare system: personalized, human-centered care. Because in the end, ownership isn’t just about who signs the papers—it’s about who shows up when it matters most.

– John Ray, Founder

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