Home Health Aide
New YorkActive
- Exam
- State exam
- Education
- None
- Experience
- None
- Background check
- None
An HHA is a trained and certified health-care worker who provides assistance to a patient in the home with personal care (as hygiene and exercise) and light household duties (as meal preparation) and who monitors the patient's condition
Requirements reported by the state
- Licence type
- Stand-alone license
- Exam
- State exam required
- Education
- No education required
- Continuing education
- Continuing education required
- Certification
- Certification required
- Experience
- No experience
- Background check
- No criminal record requirements
- Physical requirement
- No physical requirements
Issuing body
- Department
- NYS Department of Health
- Division
- Division of Home and Community Based Services
- Board
- Office of Aging and Long Term Care
- Address
- 875 Central Avenue Albany, NY 12206
- Phone
- (518) 408-1638
- Agency website
- https://www.health.ny.gov/
- Last updated
- February 8, 2023
Occupations (O*NET)
- Nurse Aide 31-1121.00
Source and verification
This record is New York's report to the Analyst Resource Center, published by CareerOneStop (October 2024 export). Everything shown comes only from that report.
Before you apply, confirm every detail with Office of Aging and Long Term Care — see the issuing body section above.
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