Services

Home Health Aides and Personal Care Aides

Compassionate, competent, and backed by Hamaspik HomeCare’s cutting-edge training, Hamaspik HomeCare’s Home Health Aide (HHA) and Personal Care Aide (PCA) paraprofessionals provide the helping hands your loved ones need to stay as healthy and well-cared-for as possible.

Before beginning employment, our caregivers undergo comprehensive vetting, screening, and training. Our registered nurse in conjunction with the patient and family members, will create a plan of care with daily tasks including personal care needs, activities of daily living, medication reminders, accessibility/mobility assistance and more.

Our Scheduling Coordinators will work with you to ensure the aide assigned is the best possible fit, to ensure a healthy and happy relationship. Each aide that is placed with a patient is individually supervised by a Registered Nurse, allowing your loved ones to maintain their customary activity levels and lifestyles at home without compromise.

We provide Home Health Aides in the 5 Boroughs, Orange, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster and Dutchess counties. With 6 offices throughout NYC and Hudson Valley, we are never too far from home!

Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program/Service (CDPAP/CDPAS)

Hamaspik Homecare & PPL: Strengthening CDPAP for You

Hamaspik Homecare is excited to be an approved facilitator for the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP).

We will be partnering with the new statewide fiscal intermediary, Public Partnerships LLC (PPL), to make sure you continue receiving the best care from your trusted personal assistants.

Hamaspik Homecare is here to support you during the transition to PPL. Below you will find detailed registration information.

To view PPL's dedicated FAQ section, click here.

Exciting notice! PPL is distributing a $100 bonus to all Personal Assistants who complete registration prior to March 28, 2025.

What This Means for You

• Your eligibility for CDPAP and the services you receive will stay the same.


• Services to consumers and payments to personal assistants will continue through PPL without interruption.


• We will make sure you continue receiving care and services in the ways that matter to you.

For more information on this transition to PPL, click here.

To view PPL's dedicated FAQ section, click here.

What You Need to Do Now

The DOH has extended a grace period for registration! Consumers and their PAs now have until April 30, 2025 to enroll with PPL. The grace period will allow PAs to complete their transition to PPL and receive retroactive wage payments for services provided in April. Consumers can continue to receive care and have their PAs paid after April 1, 2025, so long as the Consumer and PA register with PPL before April 30, 2025. Hamaspik Homecare is here to help you with the process.

Hamaspik Homecare will reach out to you to start the transition and make sure you are all set to continue with CDPAP.

Steps to Transition

Kindly complete the contact form on the right-hand side of this page. Our dedicated PPL Transition Team will be reaching out to you to start the transition process.

• Complete the necessary forms (online through the PPL@Home system or in-person at a Hamaspik Homecare office).


• Have your PAs complete the necessary forms and training.

For step-by-step registration instructions for Consumers, click here.

For step-by-step registration video instructions for Consumers, click here.

• Work with your consumer to initiate the transition.


• Fill out, sign, and submit the necessary forms and documents (online through the PPL@Home system or in-person at a Hamaspik Homecare office).


• Complete the necessary PPL trainings.


• To view PPL’s payroll calendar, click here

Exciting notice! PPL is distributing a $100 bonus to all PAs who complete registration prior to March 28, 2025.

For written Personal Assistant registration instructions, click here.

For video Personal Assistant registration, click here.

For EVV information after transitioning to PPL, click here.

PPL EVV Options Effective 3/28/2025

Starting March 28, 2025, consumers and PAs will have to use PPL’s methods of clocking in and out (EVV).
PPL has two options available to clock in and out.

Option 1: Mobile App


Download the Time4Care mobile application on your smartphone. The consumer and PA can each download the app separately, or the consumer can use the PA’s phone to review and approve shifts.


• Android Users: Download from Google Play
  
• iPhone Users: Download from the App Store
  
  

  To view EVV FAQ and a step by step guide, click here
  

  To view this information in Spanish, click here.
  

  To view this information in Russian, click here.
  
  Option 2: Landline
  

  Consumers and PAs can use a landline to call the EVV phone line at 833-278-3959 to log shifts.
  
  No Smartphone, Tablet, or Internet?
  

  Medicaid members may qualify for a free smartphone through a federal program. Consumers can apply for this benefit at www.lifelinesupport.org.

  
  
  

  Registration Assistance & Frequently Asked Questions

  For written Consumer registration instructions, click here.
  For video Consumer registration instructions, click here.
  For written Personal Assistant registration instructions, click here.
  For video Personal Assistant registration, click here.
  To view PPL's dedicated FAQ section, click here.
  To view PPL’s payroll calendar, click here .
  
  

  Staying Connected

  We are proud to be working with PPL to provide you with the best possible care and support. Consumers new to Hamaspik Homecare, please reach out to us at PPL@Hamaspikcare.org or 855-426-2774 ext. 800 with any questions.
  
  Existing Consumers and Personal Assistants can reach out to their current Case Managers at Hamaspik Homecare for more information, registration assistance, and more.
  
  You can also find more information about PPL and CDPAP at PPL's website, pplfirst.com/cdpap or contact PPL via phone at 1-833-247-5346.

Care Planning

Your Hamaspik HomeCare experience begins with Hamaspik HomeCare’s top-notch clinical team. Hamaspik HomeCare’s professional nurses, therapists, social workers, counselors and other clinicians will painstakingly review your complete medical history, and work with your doctors and other caregivers to create a comprehensive plan of care that is custom-tailored to you.

Throughout it all, the team will take a personal interest in your health and well-being—treating you with the respect and responsibility you deserve and the results that you want.

Nursing Home Transition/Diversion (NHTD)

The NHTD program serves individuals needing a nursing-home level of care at home so they can smoothly transition back to their private residences—or be diverted from entering nursing homes in the first place.

Services provided by NHTD include the assignment of a Service Coordinator, who in turn can arrange much-needed Waiver (i.e. non-standard Medicaid) services like Home/Community Supports and Services (HCSS).

Through HCSS, individuals living at home may be provided with Home Health Aides (HHAs) and Personal Care Aides (PCAs) for personal supervision, oversight and assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs). The HCSS program also installs home Environmental Modifications (E-Mods) like disabled-accessible restrooms, showers/baths and entryways, provides Community Transition Services (CTS) to pay for basic home furnishings, household items and new-apartment security deposits, and arranges for Assistive Technology (AT) like commode chairs, voice recorders and other items.

Through NHTD, individuals can also receive non-Waiver services like physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, feeding therapy, skilled nursing, medical transportation and more.

The Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) program

Individuals suffering from a traumatic brain injury (TBI) often require unique services to assist them in their activities of daily living (ADL) due to cognitive and/or physical challenges. Because standard Medicaid does not cover these unique services, the TBI Medicaid Waiver program was created to waive the regular Medicaid rules for duly-diagnosed TBI victims—hence its name.

Individuals on Medicaid who qualify for the TBI Program (a.k.a. “TBI Waiver”) may receive a broad range of ongoing services to help them live safely within their communities with their oft-devastating condition. These services include a Service Coordinator who in turn can arrange much-needed Waiver services like HCSS, E-Mods, AT, CTS as well as non-Waiver services like physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, skilled nursing, medical transportation, recreational transportation to shopping and trips, counseling and other mental-health services, rent and other subsidies, and more

Traumatic brain injury is a family condition afflicting not just the victim but also his or her spouse, children and other family-member caregivers. Thanks to the TBI program, the victim and his/her family can get the help they need to ensure that they do not fall between the cracks.

Physical Therapy

Physical therapy is the cornerstone of rehabilitation or remedial treatment, and a Hamaspik HomeCare physical therapist (PT) doesn’t just do it, but does it exceedingly well. In the hands of our superb and sympathetic PTs, Hamaspik HomeCare clients acquire or reacquire the gross- and fine-motor skills and muscle tone needed to execute as much physical movement as possible—building not just strength and skill but also the self-esteem and personal independence so critical to a fulfilling life.

Home Nursing Visits: Skilled assessments, Interventions and treatments

As Hamaspik HomeCare’s central pillar, our team of exceptional Registered Nurses (RNs) provides superlative medical care to your loved ones right in the comfort of their homes.

From expert on-site assessment of medical needs to medication management and from prefills to wound care, feeding-tube therapy and IV therapy, Hamaspik HomeCare’s proficient and gentle licensed RNs provide the reassuring, reliable and thorough medical care your loved ones need at home.