Home Care

Each November, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) celebrates National Home Care Month, National Hospice Month, and Home Care Aide Week to honor health care administrators, nurses, clinicians, therapists, aides, homemakers, chore workers, and companions who make a remarkable difference in the lives of patients and their families. The second full week [...]

Last week we received a note from a client expressing what a great job and wonderful employee we have in Grace L. “She was the best” and, “Thank you for your wonderful care services” highlight the sentiments of the client’s wife. This is not the first time Grace has been commended. Over the 7 years [...]

It is such an honor coming on the heels of our 20th anniversary to be named Small Business of the Year for 2013 by the Orange Chamber of Commerce. Colonial was selected for this prestigious recognition for our long-standing commitment to the community and reputation for providing superior service. At an awards ceremony last week, [...]

So often we work with clients and families who are faced with a sudden medical crisis, and help is needed right away. Often times, the ongoing care needs are unpredictable and families must take things on a day-by-day basis. At Colonial Home Care, we work with families to be as flexible as possible to accommodate [...]

We are pleased to have on our staff a great Home Care Aide, Sergio Lozano. While Sergio is newly hired, all clients and families that he has worked with have gone out of their way to contact us to tell us what a fabulous job he has done. Compassionate, personable, and very skilled, Sergio sets [...]

Last week I attended a forum sponsored by the Orange County Transportation Authority on issues related to senior transportation. As a public transportation authority, part of OCTA’s mandate is to provide assisted transportation services for the elderly and disabled. This is done through a program called Access. You may have seen OCTA’s small, handicapped equipped [...]

By now you may have heard that a new labor law was passed just before the close of 2013 that has a direct impact on home care providers in California, like Colonial, and their employees. In the final days of the year home care providers were scrambling to determine the impacts of the changes and [...]

A few days ago we received a nice note from a client’s niece about one of our Home Care Aides, Hoda Nourian. The note read, “…I think you are an angel heaven sent to take care of Aunt Mary so she can stay in her home. We are all lucky that she has you by [...]

Sometimes it seems as if long term care insurance companies are in the business of denying claims rather than servicing their policyholders – or at least this is what we hear from time to time from frustrated clients. We took our first long term care insurance client back in 1996, and admittedly, back then we [...]