About us
Praise Homecare Inc, locally owned in Wilson
A licensed non-medical home care agency in Wilson, run by somebody who has been doing this work in eastern North Carolina for over six years. Dedra Dickens is the President. The office is in Wilson, and the care runs out from there across ten counties.
The company
What Praise Homecare actually is
Praise Homecare Inc is a non-medical home care agency. Caregivers come to the house and help with the ordinary parts of the day that got hard: bathing, dressing and grooming, meals, moving safely around the home, memory support, laundry and light housekeeping, errands, company, and being there overnight when somebody cannot be alone.
It is licensed by the North Carolina Division of Health Service Regulation as a home care agency, license number HC7440. That license is the state’s to grant and the state’s to take away, which is exactly why it is worth more than an adjective. It is also a number you can look up without taking our word for anything.
The office is at 2403 Wooten Blvd, Suite E-2, in Wilson, North Carolina. The phone is answered 24/7, including nights, weekends and holidays.
The owner
Dedra Dickens, President
Here is everything we are going to tell you about the owner of this company, because it is the part that is checkable.
Dedra Dickens is the President of Praise Homecare Inc. She has been serving families in eastern North Carolina for over six years. The company she runs is licensed by the state as a home care agency and it is locally owned, here in Wilson.
We could stretch those three sentences into a founding story. A photograph on a porch, a paragraph about a grandmother, a line about a calling. Plenty of agency websites have one. You are most likely reading this late at night about your own mother, and a story we made up would not help you decide anything. If you want to know more about the person behind the company, ask her on the call. She is the one who answers for it.
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Over six years in eastern North Carolina
Long enough to have been through the hard weeks with families: the hospital discharge that came a day early, the parent who said no for a year and then said yes on a Tuesday.
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Locally owned, in Wilson
The office is in Wilson and so is the ownership. There is not a head office in another state deciding how a shift in Wilson County runs.
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Licensed by the state License HC7440
Praise Homecare Inc holds a home care license from the North Carolina Division of Health Service Regulation. Ask any agency you are considering for their number, and then check it.
Where we work
Ten counties, with Wilson in the middle of them
Wilson County is home and where the office is. From there the same care runs out through Nash, Halifax, Pitt, Greene, Wayne, Johnston, Wake, Franklin and Durham.
The list stops at ten on purpose. We serve what we can reach well, because a caregiver who is late every morning because of the drive is not care, it is an appointment nobody keeps. If your county is on the list, we can be at the door.
Nothing is a Wilson-only service. All nine services are available in all ten counties.
Being straight with you
What a non-medical home care agency is, and what it is not
Families ring us every week about things we are not allowed to do, and the kindest answer is the fast one. Here is the line, before you spend an hour finding it.
What we are
- A home care agency licensed by the NC Division of Health Service Regulation, license HC7440
- Non-medical care, delivered in your own home rather than in a building we own
- Caregivers background checked and trained before the first shift
- Available 24/7, including nights, weekends and holidays
- Locally owned in Wilson, serving ten counties in eastern and central North Carolina
What we are not
- Not a facility. Everything we do happens where your parent already lives
- Not a provider of wound care, injections or anything a licensed health professional must perform
- Not able to give or adjust medication: reminders only, not administration
- Not a therapy provider, and not anybody who diagnoses
Where a health professional is already involved, we work around them and take the parts of the day they do not cover. If what you need is on the other side of that line, say so on the call and we will point you at who does it.
How to reach us
One number, answered at any hour
Call (877) 652-2907. It is answered 24/7, including nights, weekends and holidays, because the hour a family finally admits it needs help is rarely between nine and five on a weekday.
By email: main@praisehomecareinc.com. The office is at 2403 Wooten Blvd. Suite E-2, Wilson, NC 27893.
If you are not ready to talk to anybody yet, that is a normal place to be. Read how we hire and supervise caregivers, or read how families pay for this, and come back when you are ready.
When you are ready
Ask us what this page did not tell you
Tell us what the week looks like and we will say honestly what would help, including when the honest answer is not yet. Or skip the form and call (877) 652-2907 right now, because somebody is awake.
The Family Care Guide
Free, plain English, no jargon. What to ask, what care costs in North Carolina, and how to know when it is time.
Read the guide