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Home Health Care Providers and Identification Cards

By: Arthor Pens
 

During my last visit to the hospital with my mother, each and every nurse and attendant showed me their picture identification card. Many went further by saying that anyone that is attempting to administer medicine or any kind of medical treatment must be wearing similar identification. It was a feeling of comfort for my mother as well as for myself.

Presently both of my parents live in a home beside ours and several medical personnel visit my parents to do some kind of therapy or to just check on their overall condition. On a regular basis, there seems to be a flow of home care staff that visits them at home. Occasionally, based on their physical condition, there are people visiting them on a daily basis and it's nice as we get to know the attendants personally.

What is surprising to me is that most of them don't have an ID card as part of their uniform. My parents and I have come accustomed to accepting them at their word that they are who they say they are. What a shocking contrast to the hospital.

Now I'm not knocking the quickly booming home care industry. It's been an invaluable source for my parents and has saved them many trips and stays at various medical facilities.

What I am saying though is that the home care industry should start working under the same standard as the hospitals. Simply by wearing a photo ID card they would greatly add to the comfort level of their customers.

It can be expensive for a small home care company to add ID card printing equipment to their overhead; however, there are other solutions available. This organization provides both identification cards and instant background checks through an online service at a reasonable rate. Larger organizations can use a similar solution, but it may be more costly than purchasing their own equipment.

Background checks and photo ID cards should almost be mandatory in the home care industry, although as in many situations it doesn't require government intervention if the industry takes care of the issue. It has always been a better thing when an industry regulates themselves without government imposing regulations that cost our tax dollars to enforce and also quickly become outdated.

In 2007 there were more than 228,000 home care companies in the US alone. This industry has grown to $54 Billion a year, and is climbing at a fast pace with our aging society. Home care has proven to be a cost effective alternative to hospital stays as well as an alternative to nursing homes. It would just be much better if the home care providers identified themselves as well as the hospital nurses.

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The Author is the founder of Virtual Tournament Director, a company handling registration and ID cards for amateur sports participants around the nation, and www.fullidentity.com a company that provides similar services to the business community.

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