CNA/HHA Home Care

Saint Louis, Missouri

You'll provide personal care to hospice patients at home, supporting the family caregivers who are already helping them.

Posted May 14

Shift and hours: Days
Unit and setting: Home Health · Hospice provide personal care and services to hospice patientsHospice patients
License: CNA license
Term: Permanent

Do you qualify?

Certification: CNA certification CNA certification required for the role
Certification: 75 hours of documented HHA training
Certification: Documented HHA competency evaluation
Also asks: Able to read, write and carry out directions Home Health Aide (HHA) has the ability to read, write, and carry out directions.

Preferred

Also asks: High school diploma or equivalent High School graduate or equivalent preferred.

What it pays

Pay reviews: Pay rate set by experience Compensation Range: $17-$22/hour based on experiencebased on experience

The role and schedule

Day to day: Colostomy bag changes assist with the change of the colostomy bag
Day to day: Meal planning and preparation, and feeding assistance when needed
Day to day: Helping with self-administered medications assist with medications that are ordinarily self-administered
Day to day: Recording temperature, pulse and respiration CNA/Home Health Aide (HHA) reads and records temperature, pulse and respiration.
Travel: Travel required per job requirements Home Health Aide (HHA) has the ability to travel per job requirements.
Details: Never assigned to institutional settings Be assigned by VITAS to any institutional setting.
Details: Phone available in the home Home Health Aide (HHA) has a telephone available in home.
Details: Reports directly to the VITAS Nurse Home Health Aide (HHA) reports directly to the VITAS Nurse.
Details: Lift over 20 pounds Lift objects in excess of 20 pounds
Details: Stand or walk over an hour a day Stand or walk in excess of one hour per day
Details: Sit, stoop, kneel and crouch The Home Health Aide (HHA) will be required to sit and stoop, kneel, and crouch.

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The VITAS CNA/Home Health Aide (HHA) is a non-exempt employee, who is trained to provide personal care and services to hospice patients to augment care given by family members or other caregivers. Compensation Range: $17-$22/hour based on experience CNA certification required for the role

Assigned job responsibilities

Performs only those personal care activities contained in a written assignment. Home Health Aide (HHA) assignments may include: CNA/Home Health Aide (HHA) helps the patient to maintain good personal hygiene. CNA/Home Health Aide (HHA) plans and prepare meals.

Feeds or assist with feeding the patient when needed. CNA/Home Health Aide (HHA) assists the patient ambulation. CNA/Home Health Aide (HHA) assists with certain treatments as ordered by the physician, and taught and supervised by the nurse for a specific patient including: assist with the change of the colostomy bag; assist with the use of a walker or wheelchair; reinforcement of a dressing; assist with prescribed range of motion exercises; assist with prescribed ice cap or collar; measure intake and output of fluids; and assist with medications that are ordinarily self-administered.

CNA/Home Health Aide (HHA) reads and records temperature, pulse and respiration. OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THE HOME HEALTH AIDE (HHA) NOT INCLUDED IN A WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT MAY INCLUDE: Home Health Aide (HHA) assists in maintaining a safe and healthy environment. Home Health Aide (HHA) promotes the patient’s mental alertness through involvement in activities of interest.

Home Health Aide (HHA) provides simple emotional and psychological support to the patient, family, and other caregivers. Home Health Aide (HHA) reports any changes in the patient’s mental or physical condition or home situation to the VITAS Nurse and members of the interdisciplinary team. Home Health Aide (HHA) teaches basic personal care to the primary caregiver.

Home Health Aide (HHA) practices basic infection control measures. Home Health Aide (HHA) observes, reports, and documents patient status and the care and activities provided. Home Health Aide (HHA) completes at least 12 hours of in-service training per calendar year.

Home Health Aide (HHA) handles other tasks as assigned.

The home health aide (hha) may not

Be assigned by VITAS to any institutional setting. Change sterile dressings. Irrigate body cavities (such as an enema). Irrigate a colostomy or wound. Perform a gastric lavage or gavage. Catheterize a patient. Administer medications. Apply heat by any method. Care for a tracheotomy tube. Suction a patient. Provide any personal care that has not been assigned by the VITAS nurse or included in the plan of care.

Qualifications

High School graduate or equivalent preferred. Meets personnel qualifications of a Home Health Aide as specified in 42 C. F. R. Section 484.4 and Section 484.36. Documented evidence of 75 hours of training as specified in 42 C. F. R. Sections 484.36 (a)(1). Documented evidence that Home Health Aide has successfully completed a Competency Evaluation program as described in 42 C. F. R. Section 484.36(b). State Allowable Training/Certification

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Special requirements

Home Health Aide (HHA) has the ability to read, write, and carry out directions. Home Health Aide (HHA) has the ability to travel per job requirements. Home Health Aide (HHA) has a telephone available in home.

Essential functions/physical demands

The physical demands described for the Home Health Aide (HHA) are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of the Home Health Aide (HHA), the employee is regularly required to: Assist in lifting and transferring patients, as required.

Lift objects in excess of 20 pounds Stand or walk in excess of one hour per day Talk and hear Specific vision abilities required by the Home Health Aide (HHA) include: Close vision Distance vision Ability to adjust focus The Home Health Aide (HHA) will be required to sit and stoop, kneel, and crouch.

Direction received

Home Health Aide (HHA) reports directly to the VITAS Nurse. Home Health Aide (HHA) receives clinical direction from the VITAS Nurse.

What's around it?

In Saint Louis, MO

Saint Louis, MO

Living costs about 9% below the US average

Life in Saint Louis, MO

NeighborhoodsYoung professionals on local Reddit threads most often land in Tower Grove (including Tower Grove South), Shaw, Lafayette Square, Soulard, Benton Park, the Central West End, The Grove, Dogtown, and University City—walkable brick neighborhoods with restaurants and nightlife. The Central West End sits beside Forest Park with grand historic homes; Soulard and Lafayette Square are denser rowhouse districts. Families and a quieter suburban texture cluster in Kirkwood, Webster Groves, Olivette, and Niche’s 2026 metro #1, Brentwood (small-town feel, park paths, easy central commute), plus Ballwin and closer-in Affton. Extra Space’s 2026 safety-and-budget list also flags Boulevard Heights, Lindenwood Park, North Hampton, and Princeton Heights as lower-cost city options with a more residential, parks-and-bungalows feel.

Young professionals on local Reddit threads most often land in Tower Grove (including Tower Grove South), Shaw, Lafayette Square, Soulard, Benton Park, the Central West End, The Grove, Dogtown, and University City—walkable brick neighborhoods with restaurants and nightlife. The Central West End sits beside Forest Park with grand historic homes; Soulard and Lafayette Square are denser rowhouse districts.

Families and a quieter suburban texture cluster in Kirkwood, Webster Groves, Olivette, and Niche’s 2026 metro #1, Brentwood (small-town feel, park paths, easy central commute), plus Ballwin and closer-in Affton. Extra Space’s 2026 safety-and-budget list also flags Boulevard Heights, Lindenwood Park, North Hampton, and Princeton Heights as lower-cost city options with a more residential, parks-and-bungalows feel.

Sources

As of Sep 11, 2026Source 1: reddit.com Source 2: facebook.com Source 3: extraspace.com Source 4: niche.com Source 5: heritage-estatesapts.com Source 6: thehonestlocal.com

Getting aroundThese sources do not name hospital campuses, parking garages, or transit lines, so treat hospital-door details as something to verify on a site visit. What they do say: the region is generally easy to drive, with “wild drivers” as a recurring local complaint. Affton is about 20 minutes to downtown in good traffic; Ballwin about 30 minutes. Brentwood is described as central with a fairly easy commute and walkable park paths. Healthcare is listed among the metro’s popular industries, so many nurses will be on those same city–suburb road corridors rather than a documented rail commute.

These sources do not name hospital campuses, parking garages, or transit lines, so treat hospital-door details as something to verify on a site visit. What they do say: the region is generally easy to drive, with “wild drivers” as a recurring local complaint.

Affton is about 20 minutes to downtown in good traffic; Ballwin about 30 minutes. Brentwood is described as central with a fairly easy commute and walkable park paths.

Healthcare is listed among the metro’s popular industries, so many nurses will be on those same city–suburb road corridors rather than a documented rail commute.

Sources

As of Sep 11, 2026Source 1: heritage-estatesapts.com Source 2: niche.com Source 3: youtube.com Source 4: facebook.com

OutdoorsForest Park is the outdoor and civic heart: 1,300 acres, larger than Central Park, with room to walk, bike, and hit free museums and the zoo in one outing. Laumeier Sculpture Park is the most-named “hidden gem” sculpture-and-green-space destination; botanical gardens, public murals, and flourishing city parks show up in visitor roundups. Greenway projects are expanding trail-style commuting and recreation. The city sits at the Mississippi–Missouri confluence, so river identity is real even when daily life is more park-path than water. Walkable suburbs such as Brentwood sell park paths as part of the residential package. Seasonal outdoor life runs through those parks and trails rather than a single beach or mountain scene.

Forest Park is the outdoor and civic heart: 1,300 acres, larger than Central Park, with room to walk, bike, and hit free museums and the zoo in one outing. Laumeier Sculpture Park is the most-named “hidden gem” sculpture-and-green-space destination; botanical gardens, public murals, and flourishing city parks show up in visitor roundups.

Greenway projects are expanding trail-style commuting and recreation. The city sits at the Mississippi–Missouri confluence, so river identity is real even when daily life is more park-path than water.

Walkable suburbs such as Brentwood sell park paths as part of the residential package. Seasonal outdoor life runs through those parks and trails rather than a single beach or mountain scene.

Sources

As of Sep 11, 2026Source 1: thehonestlocal.com Source 2: explorestlouis.com Source 3: reddit.com Source 4: instagram.com Source 5: unitedvanlines.com Source 6: niche.com

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Living in Saint Louis

St. Louis rewards nurses who treat it as a patchwork of towns, not one skyline. Young professionals cluster in the Central West End, The Grove, Shaw, Benton Park, Soulard, and University City; families look to Brentwood, Olivette, Kirkwood, Webster Groves, and Ballwin (Rockwood and Parkway schools). Downtown is roughly 20 minutes from Affton and 30 from Ballwin in good traffic. The costs are real: city crime and vacant stretches, a city–county social divide, tough summers, spring pollen and fall ragweed, aggressive drivers, and a yearly personal-property tax on cars. Choose the block first. Then The Hill’s toasted ravioli, Soulard Farmers Market, City Museum, CITYPARK soccer, and Laumeier Sculpture Park make the move feel larger than the paycheck.

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Sources

As of 2026Source 1: thehonestlocal.com Source 2: extraspace.com Source 3: reddit.com Source 4: heritage-estatesapts.com Source 5: niche.com Source 6: youtube.com Source 7: explorestlouis.com Source 8: reddit.com Source 9: unitedvanlines.com

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