Meet our team
Caregiver Connection is a trusted, award-winning in-home senior care agency. Our comprehensive personal and companion senior care services are designed to cover your changing needs, with support ranging from a few hours a day to 24/7 live-in home care.
Shauneea Warden
Caregiver Outreach Coordinator
Shauneea Warden is the Caregiver Outreach Coordinator. She is responsible for building the business through quality of services for Caregiver Connection. She is a part of the team that provides direct support of caregivers and clients converting potential clients and supporting them, as they become satisfied customers. Also works collaboratively with other staff members of the JFCS Seniors and Marketing Department.
Shauneea has a Bachelor’s of Science in Health Information Management from the University of Pittsburgh. In her course of study, she has taken and completed Human Relations in Healthcare, Legal Aspects of Healthcare (which includes healthcare policies, HIPPA act and Release of Information), Quality Management, Data Analysis & Management, and Electronic Health Records. Shauneea also has an Associate’s Degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Shauneea was on the Caregiver Connection Registry at JFCS as a Certified Nurse’s Assistant from 2012-2019, which helps her have a direct insight to the clients, wants, needs as well as understanding how to support the caregivers. She also has experience as a Benefits Verification Specialist as well as a Patient Information coordinator in which she has demonstrated excellent customer service to patients, healthcare professionals and insurance carriers to gather claim information such as verification of billed charges, confirmation of services received, and coordination of benefits and documented and abstracted important patient information. Shauneea has completed various projects that required methodologies to ensure consistency in what is being transmitted to the health information exchange by abstracting data from electronic, paper and hybrid records.
Linda Geistman
Caregiver Administrator
Linda Geistman is the Caregiver Administrator for JFCS’s Caregiver Connection. In this role, she assists with recruiting and training of caregivers, scheduling and client intakes. She was a volunteer in the Caregiver Connection program for a year before being hired by JFCS.
She assists with all regular functions of the service including matching caregivers with clients, informing them about other JFCS services, interviewing and training potential caregivers, and also acts as an advocate for both caregivers and clients.
Prior to coming to JFCS, Linda owned and operated an importing and distributing company for 24 years. She also had a previous career as a special education teacher in Northern Virginia.
She received her bachelor’s degree in Elementary and Special Education from University of Maryland, and a Master’s degree in Early Childhood Special Education from George Washington University.
Pricing
ADMINISTRATIVE FEE:
Hourly Rate:
$1.85 per hour (1-8 hours of care)
Daily Rate:
9-12 hours: $15/day
+12 hours: $18/day
Monthly invoice will reflect the number of daily service hours requested.
CAREGIVER SALARY:
Negotiated between the client and caregiver