Employee Handbook

Welcome to SARA Companion HomeCare Services

Introduction

We are pleased to have you join SARA Companion HomeCare Services. We enjoy our role in providing high quality home care services to seniors, children and disabled clients throughout the City of New York, Nassau County, and Suffolk County. We are proud of our reputation and recognize that our employees have made us the success that we are today. We hope that your experience while working here will be a positive and rewarding one.

To help you become familiar with SARA Companion HomeCare Services, we have prepared this handbook. We believe that it is important to communicate our policies and expectations; and throughout this handbook, we will familiarize you with the privileges, benefits and responsibilities of being an employee of SARA Companion HomeCare Services. Please understand that this handbook only summarizes our policies and practices. It is not meant to be a comprehensive description of every policy and procedure.

We ask you to review this handbook and make sure that you address any questions or concerns with the Administrator. Once you have completed your review, we ask you to sign and return a copy of the attached Acknowledgement of Receipt Statement. This is an acknowledgement of the fact that you have received and read the handbook and that you understand its terms and provisions.

Thank you for joining our team, and we look forward to a great future at SARA Companion HomeCare Services with you.

• I. Philosophy of SARA Companion HomeCare Services
• II. The Employment Relationship
• III. Employment Policies
• IV. Standards of Care
• V. HIPAA/ Patient Rights/ Confidentiality/
  Advanced Directives
• VI. Pay Practices
• VII. Rules of Conduct
• VIII. Performance Standards
• IX. Benefits
• X. Dismissal/ Termination of Employment
• Appendices
• Handbook Acknowledgement