Meridian At Home

I am a past client of this provider

Meridian At Home is a home health aide/senior care provider for the greater New Jersey Shore area. They provide hourly, daily and live-in workers. I have used Meridian in the past several times for an elderly relative.

Meridian does the background checks and trains their own workers. You pay the company directly and they, in turn, pay the worker. Because they take a cut of the worker's pay on an ongoing basis, they are on the high side in terms of price. That being the case, it is often worth the money.

First, their registered nurses provide a care plan for the workers to follow. Any time that a worker doesn't understand the care plan or has a problem, they have a supervisor to call. Most of the workers we dealt with were well trained and good with our patient. If they sent someone who was not up to the job, we could request another worker.

Meridian also apparently has a large pool of employees to draw from. Whenever a worker was sick, they could almost always find a replacement in a short period of time.

Would I use this agency again. Yes, I would. They were better than a few of the other agencies that I have dealt with. Some agencies do not train their own workers themselves, and the worker's skills vary greatly. While they are a bit expensive, they are a large agency with a large pool of employees. They can almost always find a good match for your patient.