Waiver Academy™ offers a comprehensive, compliance-driven training program specifically designed to support home care agencies in maintaining a well-trained, certified caregiver staff. The training is structured to help agencies meet state and federal compliance requirements, utilizing automation, bulk reporting tools, and detailed role-specific curriculum management.

Key Features:

• Automated Compliance: Tracks initial and annual training deadlines, enrollments, and certifications for caregivers, ensuring agencies are always audit-ready.
• Role-Specific Curriculums: Customizable training curriculums based on caregiver roles and payer requirements, with compliance alerts for added support.
• Certifications: Provides competency-based certifications across specialized elderly care areas, including dementia care, heart disease care, stroke recovery, diabetes, Parkinson's disease, and respiratory conditions.

Core Training Modules:

Waiver Academy™ offers a wide range of in-service training modules covering critical topics in elderly and disability care, such as:

• Core Competencies: Dementia care, behavior management, bloodborne pathogens, infection control, HIPAA, emergency management, and more.
• Specialized Skills: Includes training in personal care, skin care, oxygen use, seizure and stroke response, nutrition, and vital signs.

Home Health Aide (HHA) Certification Program:

For new Home Health Aides, Waiver Academy™ provides a blended, competency-based program meeting CMS’s 75-hour Federal guideline, including:

• 59 Hours of Online Classes and 17+ Hours of In-Person Training over six weeks.
• Competency Evaluations and a Knowledge Exam to ensure skill proficiency.

This training program supports home care agencies by providing their caregivers with the certifications and practical skills necessary to deliver high-quality, compliant care.

Waiver Academy™ offers:

• Automation of initial and annual training due dates, and enrollments into training.
• Audit-ready bulk reporting tools (logs and certificates) for state compliance.
• Automation of curriculums per role type, unlimited number of role types, and payer types in the curriculum management compliance warnings.

Provide Your Caregiver Staff with Certificates and Waiver Academy™ Certifications for Training

Use our certificates and certifications to reassure clients that your caregivers are qualified to provide the best care.

We offer your caregivers competency-based training certifications used to build functional skills in specific areas of elderly care.

CERTIFICATIONS IN THE AREAS OF:

• Dementia Care
• Heart Disease Care
• Stroke Recovery Care 
• Diabetes Care
• Parkinson’s Disease Care
• Respiratory Condition Care

Full Listing of Home Care In-Service

1.  Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation
2.  Alzheimer’s Disease
3.  Behavior Management
4.  Blood borne Pathogens*
5.  Caring for Residents with Dementia
6.  C-diff prevention
7.  Child Abuse
8.  Depression
9.  Diabetes
10. Covid-19
11. Emergency Management
12. End of Life
13. Fraud/Abuse
14. Heart Disease
15. HIPAA*
16. HIV Infection
17. Incontinence and Constipation
18. Lifting and Transferring
19. Malnutrition and Dehydration
20. Medical Device Reporting*
21. Mental Illness
22. Nutrition
23. OSHA
24. Oxygen Training
25. Pain Management
26. Patient Bill of Rights
27. Personal Care/Skin Care
28. Psychosocial
29. Range of Motion and Positioning
30. Respiratory Disorders/Tuberculosis*
31. Seizures and Strokes
32. Skin Care
33. Vital Signs
34. Infection Control*

TRAIN AND CERTIFY NEW HHAs 

The Waiver Academy™ Caregiver Training Program uses an innovative, blended training model for training entities to use and qualify new home health aides (HHA). The foundation of the program is a competency-based curriculum that meets the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Conditions of Participation for Home Health Aide Services.

Waiver Academy™ program meets the 75-hour Federal CMS guidelines, as well as the specific requirements for both the state of New York and the New Jersey CHHA and Bridge program.

The curriculum includes:

• 59 hours of Waiver Academy online classes
• 17+ hours of in-person training, equally divided across six weeks
• Demonstrating competency in performing hands-on skills (competency evaluation)
• An end-of-program knowledge exam

The successful completion of both the knowledge exam and the competency evaluation is required before qualifying for the HHA.

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Create efficiency by integrating Waiver Academy™ training with top back-office solutions

Make your scheduling, HR, and onboarding operations more efficient by seamlessly integrating staff training with back-office solutions. Connect your systems with ease with single sign-on (SSO) functionality for both administrators and caregivers.

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