Get A Home Care License In Tennessee
How do I get a home care license in Tennessee?
Before you can start with offering home care business services in Tennessee, you will need to get a Home Care License in Tennessee. StartUp Home Care provides a turn-key solution to help qualified individuals get a home care business license in Tennessee.
Startup Home Care (a division of AHI Group, Inc – a nationwide organization of home care agencies) will assist with every part of starting and growing your very own home care business in Tennessee. Startup Home Care guarantees that you will receive your home care business license in Tennessee or we will refund your AHI Group Membership Fee. It doesn’t matter if you are in Nashville, Memphis, or anywhere in Tennessee – we will ensure that you get your home care business license.
Contact us to learn more about our unique nationwide home care business organization that has no franchise royalties and no revenue restricting territories. Starting your home care business in Tennessee with the right organization by your side will be key to your success and long term growth.
To get a home care license in Tennessee and launch your home care business, you must first submit a Tennessee home care license application along with the application fee.
At this point, you will need training on many things from hiring staff to going out and marketing your business. We can assist you with all aspects of growing your new home care business in Tennessee. Contact us for more details.
You will also need the right documentation to run your business (policies, procedures, forms, etc.) that allow you to legally operate your home care business in Tennessee. If you are feeling overwhelmed about getting a home care license in Tennessee, or need help with any other aspects of starting your own home care business in Tennessee, give us a call – to see if you have what it takes to become part of AHI Group’s nationwide network of independently owned home care agencies.
Home Care License in Tennessee
Whether you aim to start a home care business in Tennessee, or in another state, the booming senior care population makes this a great time to start a home care business.
If you do get a home care license in Tennessee, there will be no shortage of potential clients that you can tap into given the statistics on the growing senior population. By 2050 there will be 85 million elderly people in the USA. Each of these individuals prefer to stay home vs. going to a facility setting. You will be able to provide home care services to them in Tennessee after you get your Tennessee Home Care License.
Letting the experts here at StartUp Home Care take care of getting your license requirements satisfied will be a big relief to you as you are swamped with all the other things involved in getting a home care business off the ground and launched.
Look before you leap. Be sure you know which home care license is the right one in Tennessee – before starting the process to get your home care license
Before you take that first leap of faith into the unknown, be sure that you are applying for right home care license in Tennessee. Many people that come to us have confused the non-medical home care license with the home health care license or even a hospice license.
StartUp Home Care | AHI Group can help you get the right home care license in Tennessee that meets the type of home care business requirements that you want to launch.
Do I need a certificate of training in the home care industry to get a home care license in Tennessee?
It is not required to have any specific home care certificate to get a home care license in Tennessee. However, you will be expected to understand all the policies and procedures that are required to operate a home care business in Tennessee. StartUp Home Care can assist you with understanding all of these policy requirements. There is certain liability involved in operating a home care business in Tennessee and it is important that you understand where the risks are and how to manage through them. In addition, we can assist you with getting the right home care business insurance in Tennessee – to protect your new home care business if push comes to shove with a situation down the road.
If you want to start a home care business in Tennessee, it is important that you understand the fine line between what is Medical and Non-Medical Home Care
If you want to start a non-medical home care business in Tennessee, as opposed to a skilled medical home care business, you will need to consider a number of things such as inherent care provider risk, accreditation, billing, payors, hiring skilled staff vs. non-skilled staff, to name a few. Most non-medical home care businesses get paid via private paying customers. Most skilled care home care businesses get paid via Medicare and Medicaid. Medicare and Medicaid require a whole separate credentialing and approval process that can take many months – if not years to complete. The cost of starting a Medical home care business is much higher than starting a non-medical home care business – as a result of these factors.
AHI Group | StartUp Home Care will get you licensed to provide home care in Tennessee
If you can see how much speed to market you will have by partnering with an organization that has already been through the school of hard knocks and built up all the knowledge and tools required to get you a home care license in Tennessee and help you step through all the things you will need to do to both launch your new home care business and then grow your home care business ongoing, then you will want to reach out and talk to our team about what we can do to assist you achieve your dream of owning your very own home care business in Tennessee.
A home care franchise in Tennessee is not going to provide a turn-key home care business solution like AHI Group | StartUp Home Care is. NOTE: Most home care franchise companies don’t even help their franchisees get a home care license in Tennessee – they make them find a home care consultant to help them with getting their non-medical home care license in Tennessee.
Startup Home Care provides all the tools necessary to start and grow a successful home care business in Tennessee – including getting the home care business license, training, coaching, marketing, policies, procedures, website, etc.
Home Care License Requirements in Tennessee
The first step to start a home care business in Tennessee, is to create an S-Corporation or an LLC in your state. From there, there are many other things (too many to list here) that you will need to do to both get your home care license in Tennessee and then launch your home care business in Tennessee. If you would like to discuss in detail all the steps involved in starting and launching a home care business in Tennessee, or the step by step process of getting a home care license in Tennessee, call StartUp Home Care for more information and speak to one of our representatives.
Start today by obtaining your Tax ID and FEIN number – to start the process of launching your home care business in Tennessee
StartUp Home Care will assist you with choosing your home care business name, picking your website domain, email address, logo design, etc to build a professional looking brand for your business. The next step is to apply for your FEIN and TaxID numbers – which will allow you to pay taxes on the revenue you will receive from your home care business in Tennessee.
Do I need an office for my Tennessee home care business?
You are required to have an office to operate a home care business in Tennessee. However, we have many budget options for getting an office space for a home care business in Tennessee. Some of these options are as little as a couple of hundred dollars per month. Once you are more established you can expect your office space to a bigger office for your home care business. Your licensing liaison at Startup Home Care | AHI Group will let you know if you need the office to be in place when you apply for your license or if you can get it in place right before they issue your license.
Home care policies and procedures in Tennessee
Tennessee requires some specific Home Care Policies and Procedures that we will create for you. You will not get your home care license in Tennessee if you do not have the right policies and procedures developed to meet the standards for a home care business in Tennessee. Many home care business consultants will charge you $8,000 just to create these types of policies. These home care business policies are all included in our one time fee.
Why Choose AHI Group | StartUp Home Care to start and grow your home care business in Tennessee?
Opportunity cost is a business term that means that cost of not doing something else. If you are spending your valuable time creating policies and procedures to get your home care license in Tennessee – what else are you giving up that you could be spending your time on and what is the cost of that to your business?
Wasting time on things that you don’t understand and don’t do well is not a good use of your time and energy. Let an expert guide you and training you! You will thank yourself down the road when you see how much goes into getting home care license in Tennessee and all the things involved in launching and growing a home care business.
StartUp Home Care | AHI Group, Inc can assist qualified individuals with every aspect of starting and growing a home care business in Tennessee. Contact us today to find out if you would be a good fit for AHI Group and owning your very own home care business in Tennessee!
Tennessee Home Care License Resources
Tennessee Department of Public Health
https://www.tn.gov/health.html
Tennessee Department of Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services
https://www.tn.gov/behavioral-health/licensing.html
Tennessee Association for Health Services at Home
Tennessee Department of Health
Tennessee Home Health Care Licensing Division
Additional Information for Home Care Agencies in Tennessee
National Home Care Facts & Statistics
Reporting Fraud and Abuse -OIG
Filing Complaint against a Home Health Care Agency
Hiring Private Home Care Workers
Home Care Accreditation Organizations
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospital Organizations
Accreditation Commission for Health Care, Inc. (ACHC)
Community Health Accreditation Program (CHAP)
Federal Government Agencies Involved With Home Care
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
National Patient Safety Foundation
AHI Group | StartupHomeCare is North America’s premier non-franchise business opportunity in the non-medical home care industry. If you are looking for a rewarding career as a business owner in a booming industry you have found the best! StartupHomeCare is the training and support division of AHI Group, Inc – a nationwide Membership Organization of 300+ home care agencies www.ahi-group.com. AHI Group | StartupHomeCare provides a comprehensive non-medical home care agency start-up and support solution for those individuals who want to truly own their business and receive unlimited financial return while providing a valuable and rewarding service to help seniors stay independent in their own homes vs. going to a facility.
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