Health aide vs care provider

The differences between health aides and care providers can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. Additionally, a health aide has an average salary of $30,434, which is higher than the $29,652 average annual salary of a care provider.

The top three skills for a health aide include patients, home health and community health. The most important skills for a care provider are senior care, patients, and administer medications.

Health aide vs care provider overview

	Health Aide	Care Provider
Yearly salary	$30,434	$29,652
Hourly rate	$14.63	$14.26
Growth rate	36%	36%
Number of jobs	121,842	169,562
Job satisfaction	-	5
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 28%	High School Diploma, 30%
Average age	50	48
Years of experience	-	-

What does a health aide do?

A health aide is responsible for providing care and assistance to patients in medical facilities, care centers, and even at home. They typically help patients by administering medicines, monitoring their blood pressure and vital signs, facilitating exercises, preparing meals, providing emotional support, and assisting them in performing hygienic tasks such as bathing, dressing, brushing teeth, and going to the toilet. Furthermore, as a health aide, it is essential to monitor the behavior and progress of patients, reporting to nurses and physicians regularly.

What does a care provider do?

A care provider is responsible for assisting patients with their healthcare needs at the highest quality service. Care providers work in various medical organizations or are privately employed by a household. They perform medical procedures such as taking the patient's temperature and vital signs, monitoring their food intake, administering medications, collecting specimens for laboratory tests, and reporting the patient's condition to the attending physician or other health care professionals. A care provider must have excellent communication and organization skills, especially when consulting with patients for their needs and developing healthcare plans.

Health aide vs care provider salary

Health aides and care providers have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Health Aide	Care Provider
Average salary	$30,434	$29,652
Salary range	Between $23,000 And $39,000	Between $17,000 And $51,000
Highest paying City	Marysville, WA	Attleboro, MA
Highest paying state	Washington	Massachusetts
Best paying company	Boston Medical Center	Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Best paying industry	Education	Government

Differences between health aide and care provider education

There are a few differences between a health aide and a care provider in terms of educational background:

	Health Aide	Care Provider
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 28%	High School Diploma, 30%
Most common major	Nursing	Business
Most common college	-	-

Health aide vs care provider demographics

Here are the differences between health aides' and care providers' demographics:

	Health Aide	Care Provider
Average age	50	48
Gender ratio	Male, 16.6% Female, 83.4%	Male, 22.1% Female, 77.9%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 24.0% Unknown, 5.4% Hispanic or Latino, 23.4% Asian, 10.5% White, 35.6% American Indian and Alaska Native, 1.1%	Black or African American, 9.1% Unknown, 4.6% Hispanic or Latino, 22.3% Asian, 8.3% White, 54.3% American Indian and Alaska Native, 1.4%
LGBT Percentage	5%	7%

Differences between health aide and care provider duties and responsibilities

Health aide example responsibilities.

Manage ventilator settings, suction tracheostomy, tube-feeding assistance.
Perform care plan documentation to effectively implement personal care, dietary needs, and ADL requirements.
Share health information with school staff and arrange training sessions for CPR certification and health care implementation.
Care consists of medication administration, helping with ADL'S if necessary with the students with significant needs.
Last school year, perform CPR on an adult volunteer and help resuscitate him and is doing just fine.
Document all physical condition, behavioral and mental illness changes in patients as well as procedures perform and medication administer.

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Care provider example responsibilities.

Manage provider network to include verifying claims and benefits for healthcare providers/members and insurance companies.
Aid and facilitate higher functioning patients reach their fullest potential while managing behavioral episodes as needed.
Accompany to medical appointments, administer medications, assist with ADL's, community integration, personal care, and therapeutic activities
Review appeals for Medicare non-participating providers following CMS specific guidelines for these providers.
Provide direct patient care to critical and non-critical emergency department patients as an experience EMT-Paramedic.
Change tracheal tube and catheter.

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Health aide vs care provider skills

Common health aide skills

Patients, 32%
Home Health, 20%
Community Health, 7%
Vital Signs, 5%
Patient Care, 5%
CPR, 5%

Common care provider skills

Senior Care, 23%
Patients, 13%
Administer Medications, 6%
Direct Care, 6%
Meal Prep, 6%
Patient Care, 6%

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Updated January 8, 2025

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