Workforce Development
and Continuing Education
Health Care - Home Care Aide Program
The U.S. Department of Labor predicts that Home Care Aides will
grow faster than the average for all occupations through the year 2012.
- Employment of home care aides is expected to grow, as a result of both growing demand for home healthcare services from an aging population and efforts to contain healthcare costs by moving patients out of hospitals and nursing care facilities as quickly as possible.
- Consumer preference for care in the home and improvements in medical technologies for in-home treatment also will contribute to faster-than-average employment growth for home care aides.
The Home Care Aide Program at Montgomery County Community College’s West Campus in Pottstown is designed to help students learn the basics of caring for a client in the home or in an assisted living facility. This program integrates theory, laboratory simulations and a clinical practicum experience. Home Care Aide graduates will become valuable members of the health care delivery team.
Graduating students will be able to take the National Association for Home Care’s national certification examination for home care aide. The student will also receive a certificate of completion from the college.
The Home Care Aide Program is an 80 hour program which includes clinical practicum experience. Students are required to successfully complete all of the following in order to be deemed eligible to take the National Certification exam: chapter tests, final examination, a skills based competency assessment and clinical practicum. Students must have a Criminal Background check, physical and TB screening completed prior to their clinical practicum.
Starting Dates
Classes start in the Fall, Spring and Summer, please contact the Program Director at 610-718-1812 for exact starting dates at the Pottstown Campus.
Class # / Section |
Class Name |
Day |
Time |
Start Date |
End Date |
HCHC 1001 AW |
Home Care Aide |
M-W |
6-10p.m. |
6/23/08 |
8/27/08 |
Costs
Tuition for the 80 hour program is $625.
- Tuition includes the fees for the National Home Care Aide Certification examination.
- Costs for books, supplies, uniforms, liability insurance, criminal background check, physical and TB screening are additional and are paid by the student.
Revised 3/04/08
Created 8/29/05
