Service areas
Ten counties, one office, and it is in Wilson
Praise Homecare is a licensed non-medical home care agency based in Wilson, North Carolina, serving ten counties across the east and center of the state. All nine services are available in every one of them, and every one of them starts with a free assessment before you decide anything.
Where we go
The ten counties, and what care looks like in each one
We serve what we can reach well. Wilson County is home and the office is there. The other nine sit around it, north as far as Halifax and west as far as Durham. They are listed here by distance from the office, nearest first. Pick yours and read the page for it.
Counties we serveWilson, where the office is
Wilson County is home. Five of the other nine share a border with it: Nash, Pitt, Greene, Wayne and Johnston. Halifax, Franklin, Wake and Durham sit further out.
How the ten fit together
Wilson in the middle, and nine counties around it
Not every county on the list touches Wilson, and we are not going to say they do. This is how they actually sit, so you can see where you are on it. There is one practical reason the shape matters: families are rarely inside a single county line, and a household spread across two or three of these ten is dealing with one agency, one number and one care plan rather than three of each.
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The five that border Wilson County
Nash, Pitt, Greene, Wayne and Johnston all share a line with Wilson. That takes in Rocky Mount and Nashville, Greenville and Farmville, Snow Hill and Hookerton, Goldsboro and Mount Olive, Smithfield, Selma and Clayton.
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North, up Interstate 95
Halifax County is the northernmost of the ten. Roanoke Rapids is its largest town, and the county also takes in Weldon, Enfield, Scotland Neck, Littleton and the small county seat at Halifax itself.
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West, toward the Triangle
Franklin, Wake and Durham run west. Louisburg, Franklinton, Youngsville and Bunn in Franklin. Raleigh, Cary, Garner, Zebulon and Wendell in Wake. Durham city and its side of Research Triangle Park. Durham is the farthest of the ten from us.
The office
Everything runs out of Wilson
There is one office, at 2403 Wooten Blvd, Suite E-2, in Wilson, and one number. It is answered at every hour, including nights, weekends and holidays. That matters more than it sounds, because the thing that finally makes a family start looking usually happens at nine on a Sunday evening.
Wilson County is the shortest drive. Durham County is the longest, more than an hour on the road, and we would rather tell you that here than after you have called. What the distance does not change is the visit itself. The care plan, the caregiver match and the supervision behind it are the same in Roanoke Rapids as they are three streets from the office.
We only list counties we believe we can serve properly, and we do not claim an office, a branch or staff anywhere but Wilson. If you sit just outside the ten, call and ask anyway. The worst that happens is we say no and point you somewhere else.
The same everywhere
County lines change the drive, not the care
Whichever of the ten you are in, these are the parts of the arrangement that do not move.
Every caregiver has a full background check before they are placed, and a registered nurse signs off their core skills before their first shift. Electronic visit verification clocks each caregiver in and out on every visit, so you can see that care happened when it was supposed to, whether you live in the same town or three states away.
Once care is under way there is ongoing supervision, care plan reviews as needs change, and family check-ins where somebody asks you straight out how it is going. When a shift cannot be covered we arrange a backup caregiver, so nobody is sitting in a chair at seven in the morning wondering whether anyone is coming.
The everyday support is identical too: meal preparation, light housekeeping and laundry, transportation and errands, and medication reminders only, not administration. Overnight and around-the-clock cover are available in all ten counties.
So is the money. Praise Homecare accepts private pay, Medicaid, long-term care insurance and Veterans Benefits for those who qualify, in every county on this page. Most families use somewhere between ten and forty hours a week. The free assessment is where the hours, the tasks and the cost get put in writing, before you have agreed to anything.
How much of the week
How much care a family usually starts with
Care is built around the hours that are actually hard, and the same three shapes come up in every one of the ten counties. This is the explanation, so the county pages do not have to repeat it.
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A few hoursThe hard part of the day
Mornings, bath days, or the late afternoon stretch when somebody with dementia gets restless. Enough to take the sharpest hours off the family.
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Full daysWhile the family works
Cover through the working day, or across a weekend, so nobody is calling in sick again to sit with their father.
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Around the clockIncluding overnight
Overnight and around-the-clock support for someone who cannot safely be left alone, or for the stretch straight after a hospital stay.
Services
All nine services, in every county on this page
Nothing on this site is a Wilson-only service. These three are the ones families ask for first, and the full list of nine is one click away.
Personal Care
Hands-on help with bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, mobility and transfers. Where most families start, usually after a fall or after bathing stopped being safe alone.
See what personal care covers
Companion Care
Company, conversation, a hand with errands and the shopping, and somebody in the house on the days that get long and quiet.
See what companion care covers
Respite Care
Cover for the family caregiver, from a few hours on a Saturday to a stretch of days while you travel. Asking for it is not giving up.
See how respite worksWhen you are ready
Not sure whether your address is covered?
Call and read us the town. We will tell you in a minute whether it is one of the ten, and if it is not we will try to point you at somebody who covers it. Or leave a name and a number here and we will call you back. The number is (877) 652-2907, and 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