Home health care is a relatively new program that aims to take care of sick patients while they are at home. Medical trained personnel are usually the ones who take care of the sick people who either choose to stay at home or cannot go to the hospital anymore. This can be due to a disease that caused them to be paralyzed or have insufficient power to move.

The in-home services usually include physical therapists, nurse, medical technicians etc. The patient usually has a personal nurse to take care of him. Most patients have nurses for around eight hours per day. But depending on the case, it can be allowed for the nurses to extend for more than eight hours a day.

If the patient requests for the nurse to stay for more than 4 days a week then there must be an agreed date on when to end the project. The rules regarding the nurses and the kind of assistance that could be given to a patient depends on the rules and regulations set by their particular state since they cover the money that the home health patient can accept from the state budget.