Your caregiver understands the grave responsibility that they have to protect themselves and your family from the spread of COVID-19 and all disease. Every morning before they come to your home, they do a body check to ensure that they are well and specifically that they don't have any symptoms of COVID-19. They take their temperature and report it to the business manager. They must report any exposure of themselves or any person living under their roof to COVID-19. If the caregiver has been exposed then they will be asked to quarantine. They will be tested before returning to their duties. Under no circumstances will they be allowed to enter your home with any COVID-19 symptoms, or any symptom of any active communicable disease. Your caregiver will bring in a Nurse Aide bag that contains PPEs to help protect your family and themselves including: masks, nitrile gloves, kitchen gloves, hand sanitizer, gown, and goggles.

All caregivers wear three layer medical masks from the time when they ring your doorbell until the time that they leave your home. They wear nitrile gloves for client care and kitchen gloves for cleaning, and food prep. They are trained by the American Red Cross to prevent the spread of disease, including COVID 19. Their training includes hand hygiene which focuses on proper hand washing and hand sanitizer use, when to wash hands, and when to put on a fresh pair of gloves. Specifically, they must clean their hands when they use the restroom, and whenever they remove their gloves, or whenever they believe that their hands are soiled. They must change their gloves whenever they switch activities, for example: cleaning kitchen after cleaning bathroom, doing laundry after cleaning, cleaning after pet chores, and always before food prep.