FirstLight Home Care of Delray Beach, FL

About FirstLight HomeCare of the Gold Coast -

We are the quality leader in our service territory and differentiate ourselves by extensive owner involvement and extraordinary caregivers. When you or your loved one needs help at home, turn to FirstLight HomeCare. We offer complete companion and personal care services for seniors, new mothers, those recovering from surgery, or anyone who just needs a little assistance. And with our trusted, highly-trained caregivers and additional, innovative services, you’ll have even greater peace-of-mind. Seniors and people with disabilities can live a quality life at home with assistance from FirstLight homecare. The service quality leader in home care, senior care, and respite care for adults of all ages, we have a solution to fit your or a loved one’s needs. We provide a whole spectrum of home care services, ranging from assisting people who only require minimal help to remain in their home, to caring for adults with disabilities who may need more complex services and assistance with day-to-day tasks. We are even available for those who just need someone to talk to and share everyday moments with to make like more enjoyable. Serving Palm Beach, Broward and Martin County from Stuart to Fort Lauderdale, including Palm Beach, Boynton Beach, Boca Raton, Pompano and Deerfield Beach. About our services:

Companion Care - FirstLight HomeCare provides assistance to families through a wide range of companion care services at home or in a healthcare facility setting. These include: • regular visits, conversation & company, • medication reminders, • meal preparation, • light housekeeping, • laundry services, • shopping, errands, & transportation, • recreational activities, • mail & paperwork organization, • live-in services, • 24-hour care, • family respite care

Personal Care - FirstLight HomeCare care also provides even more personal care services to assist with the activities of daily living, giving families additional peace-of-mind and giving clients dignity and comfort every day. These services include: • bathing & hygiene, • walking & mobility assistance, • transfer & posture positioning, • continence & toileting care, • special diets & meal preparation, • eating assistance, • oral hygiene

Person-first specialized dementia care - program highlights:
• Specialized care provided by compassionate experts who have completed our rigorous training program to become certified dementia caregivers.
• Care for people with dementia caused by Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Lewy bodies, and other conditions
• “Who I am booklet” that goes beyond basic personal information and history to create a rich portrait of who your loved one is that we use to create their unique care program
• One-on-one consultations to help you find the right caregiver for your family
• Continuous quality and improvement process that includes client satisfaction surveys, client and care giver focus groups, and advisory councils

How we help reduce hospital readmissions with non-medical home care: • improves positive patient outcomes—reducing readmissions, • enhances the patient experience—keeping them in the comfort of home, not the hospital, • lowers costs—rescues hospitals from readmission penalties, • creates a personalized, patient-focused strategy, • educates the patient, family, and caregivers, • telehealth solutions (additional service fees required), • personal medication systems, • remote vitals monitoring, • personal emergency response systems,
• 24-hour availability and response for: -helping with special diet meal preparation, exercise, and hydration, -medication reminders and transportation to medical appointments, -observation, measurement, and monitoring of key condition indicators, -early intervention (call to doctor),
-outcome trending and data along with client satisfaction reporting

Transportation: • We provide many forms of individualized transportation, especially travel to and from medical appointments and other treatments and exercise programs such as aquatics
• in addition to shopping and errands, we are able to organize trips to special events for newcomers making the transition to Florida and other senior-oriented recreational activities

Credentials: Joint Commission Accredited and FL AHCA license #299994316

FirstLight HomeCare is staffed by people who have “been there”... And who are there now. We understand the challenges families face when caring for loved ones across town, or across the country. That means finding and hiring the kind of people we would trust with our families…so that our clients and their families can trust and rely on them. At the heart of our recruitment and development programs is our culture of care philosophy, which simply states:

“The genuine health and well-being of others is our greatest concern. We vow to provide first-class personal service for our clients, so that they may enjoy warmth, independence and relaxed comfort in their own home or any setting."

FirstLight HomeCare caregivers are, of course, the most visible reflection of these values, and here are just some of the requirements of their employment with us:
• All of our caregivers are direct employees (not contractors), licensed, insured and bonded
• All of our caregivers are thoroughly screened and background-checked – and must pass through our
• All caregivers are trained in privacy issues, as FirstLight HomeCare is a fully HIPAA compliant company regarding the privacy of every clients’ personal health data
• Following our thorough recruitment and rigorous care training, all of our employees must go through our unique culture of care training & orientation process

Languages spoken by staff: • English, • Spanish, • French, • German
Hours of service:• services provided & phones answered 24/7, • Office Hrs: Monday-Friday 9-5pm