PILLAR 01
Durable medical equipment
Hands-on with walkers, wheelchairs, hospital beds, gait belts, lifts, and bathroom safety gear — so aides set up and use every device correctly.
Little Rock, AR metro · Home care agencies & community education
The 12 hours your aides owe, handled.
Viridian Firm delivers your caregivers' required annual in-service training — in person, taught by a Doctor of Physical Therapy, documented for survey, with RN sign-off taken care of.
Also offering caregiver education classes for churches, community groups, and families.
DPT-led instruction
In-person delivery
Survey-ready documentation
Annual in-service hours
0/ 12 hrs · per aide
All 12 hours, done for you. Hands-on instruction your aides can't get from a video — plus the paperwork your surveyor wants to see.
Taught by a PT, DPT
A licensed Doctor of Physical Therapy leads every session — body mechanics done right.
RN sign-off handled
Your supervising RN signs, or we provide RN sign-off per certificate. Either way, covered.
Built for survey
Rosters, objectives, and proof of hours, mapped to Arkansas's required topics.
The program
A full year of in-service, led by a physical therapist
Twelve CEU hours built around the three things aides do every shift — and the three things that get them and your clients hurt when done wrong. Online modules check a box. We build the skills.
PILLAR 02
Lifting mechanics & injury prevention
The body mechanics that keep aides off the injured list — protecting your team from the back and shoulder injuries that drive turnover and comp claims.
PILLAR 03
Transfer training
Practiced techniques for bed-to-chair, chair-to-toilet, and floor-recovery transfers — with and without equipment, for every mobility level.
The full 12 hours
Mapped to the Arkansas required training topics so your in-service plan lines up with what surveyors look for.
- 01 Body mechanics & caregiver injury prevention
- 02 Safe transfers: bed, chair, toilet, car
- 03 Fall prevention & assisting a fallen client
- 04 DME: walkers, wheelchairs, canes — fit & use
- 05 Hospital beds, mechanical lifts & gait belts
- 06 Bathroom & home safety equipment
- 07 Infection control & standard precautions
- 08 Skin integrity, positioning & pressure care
- 09 Dementia & Alzheimer's care and safe mobility
- 10 Personal care with safe mechanics
- 11 Nutrition, hydration & safe-feeding basics
- 12 Emergencies, recognizing decline & documentation
Extended modules 13–16 Multi-state add-on
Four additional hours for agencies operating in states with stricter requirements (e.g., DC, Illinois, Florida) — a 16-hour program that travels with your brand.
- 13 HIV/AIDS & bloodborne pathogens
- 14 Abuse, neglect & exploitation — recognition & mandated reporting
- 15 Sexual harassment prevention
- 16 Assisting with self-administered medications
Pricing
One annual price, per location
Pick your frequency, then find your team size. Covers all 12 CEU hours for the year — no per-head surprises.
Frequency
Quarterly · four on-site visits a year · in person
0–10 caregivers
Small agency / single team
$2,400from $240 / caregiver / yr
- All 12 CEU hours, DPT-led
- Hands-on skills labs
- Survey-ready documentation
Most popular
11–20 caregivers
Growing agency
$3,600from $180 / caregiver / yr
- Everything in 0–10
- Split into 2 cohorts as needed
- Topic crosswalk for your plan
21–30 caregivers
Established agency
$4,800from $160 / caregiver / yr
- Everything in 11–20
- 1 custom topic / year included
- Multiple cohorts scheduled
31–50 caregivers
Large / multi-team
$6,500from $130 / caregiver / yr
- Everything in 21–30
- 2 custom topics / year included
- Priority scheduling
50+ caregivers or multiple locations? Ask for a custom quote.
Not ready for a year? Trial us with 3 classes.
Three 1-hour in-service classes at your location — $1,800 ($600/class). Sign an annual plan within 60 days and we credit $900 back toward your first year. Your aides bank 3 of their 12 hours either way.
Add-on · optional
RN certificate sign-off
$20 / caregiver / yr
Skip it if your own supervising RN signs the certificates. Need it handled? We provide an RN to review and sign each one.
Add-on · up to 2 / yr
Agency-specific topic
$450 / session
A custom class for your team — a specific diagnosis, a new piece of equipment, or retraining after an incident. Included free in the 21–30 and 31–50 tiers.
Standalone
One-off class
$750 / 1-hr session
Not on an annual plan yet? Book a single in-service class. Half-day (3 hrs) is $1,500.
Add-on · multi-state agencies
Extended modules 13–16
+$950 / location / yr
Four extra hours covering stricter-state requirements (DC, IL, FL): HIV/AIDS & bloodborne pathogens, abuse & neglect mandated reporting, sexual harassment prevention, and assisting with self-administered medications. Folded into your existing visit schedule. Included in 6+ location / franchise agreements.
Not an agency?
Community & in-home sessions
The same DPT-led training, for churches, community groups, and families caring for a loved one at home.
Community education · no certification
Community education classes
$500 / 1-hr class · $700 / 2-hr class
Group sessions for churches and community organizations, up to 15 attendees — safe lifting, transfers, fall prevention, and dementia & Alzheimer's care for everyday caregivers. Educational only; no CEU hours or certificates issued. Larger groups +$15 per extra attendee.
- Series of 4 × 1-hr classes — $1,800
- Series of 4 × 2-hr classes with equipment practice — $2,600
Families · one-on-one
In-home 1-hour session
$150 / hour · within 15 miles
Hands-on training in your own home, with your equipment and your situation.
- 0–15 mi — travel included
- 15 mi to the Cabot / Austin line — +$40 travel
- Beyond — considered by request, custom quote
3-session bundle — $400 (within 15 mi)
Multiple locations or a franchise?
Volume pricing applies across every location you run, billed on one agreement.
Compliance, covered
Designed to satisfy the 12-hour requirement
Arkansas requires every aide to complete 12 hours of in-service a year, addressing areas tied directly to client care. We build the program to that standard and hand you the proof.
RN sign-off, two ways
Certificates need a supervising registered nurse's sign-off. We make that simple — choose whichever fits your agency:
Your supervising RN signs
We deliver completed records; your RN reviews and signs. No added fee.
We provide RN sign-off
An RN reviews and signs each certificate for you — $20 per caregiver, per year.
Your survey packet
Every session comes with the documentation a surveyor expects to see, ready to drop into each employee file:
- Signed attendance roster & hours per aide
- Written objectives & evaluation method
- Topic crosswalk to Arkansas requirements
- Individual certificates of completion
We tailor the program to your agency's in-service plan and current Arkansas Department of Health requirements.
How it works
From first call to filed certificates
01
Tell us your team
Headcount, locations, and whether you want monthly or quarterly visits.
02
We schedule
We set a cadence that fits your shifts and come to you — cohorts sized to your team.
03
We train
Hands-on instruction with real equipment, led by a Doctor of Physical Therapy.
04
You file the proof
Certificates, rosters, and the survey packet land in your hands, RN sign-off included.
Why a physical therapist?
Caregiving is a movement problem. PTs are the movement profession.
Nearly every way an aide or a client gets hurt — a bad lift, a missed transfer, a fall, a pressure injury from poor positioning — is a movement problem. Physical therapists are doctoral-trained, licensed specialists in exactly that: safe patient handling, transfer and gait training, fall-risk reduction, positioning, and matching the right equipment to the right body. Caregiver education isn't adjacent to PT practice — it's squarely inside it.
Meet your instructor
Dr. Rhianna Redden, PT, DPT, Cert DN, CSCS, CSOMT — Owner-operator
Dr. Redden earned her Doctor of Physical Therapy at NYU and has spent 13 years specializing in musculoskeletal injury and transfer training. Before she was a therapist, she was a CNA and phlebotomist — she has done the job your aides do, and teaches like someone who remembers what a double shift feels like.
She has served as an adjunct instructor in Howard University's DPT program, trained in wound care at Beth Israel Hospital, practiced vestibular physical therapy in an ENT office treating positional vertigo and other balance pathologies, and is a certified first responder. Every Viridian Firm session is taught by her personally — never outsourced, never pre-recorded.
PT, DPT — NYU
Cert DN
CSCS
CSOMT
Certified first responder
Former CNA & phlebotomist
EXPERIENCE → YOUR TRAINING
13 years in musculoskeletal injury & transfers
The core of your 12 hours — lifting mechanics, transfer technique, injury prevention — taught by a specialist who treats these injuries when they happen.
EXPERIENCE → YOUR TRAINING
Former CNA & phlebotomist
She's been on your aides' side of the bed. Training lands differently when the instructor has done the work — not just studied it.
EXPERIENCE → YOUR TRAINING
Vestibular PT — positional vertigo
Years treating dizziness and balance disorders in an ENT practice inform the fall-prevention hours — because many falls start with a balance problem nobody caught.
EXPERIENCE → YOUR TRAINING
Wound care training — Beth Israel Hospital
Hospital wound-care training underpins the skin integrity, positioning, and pressure-injury prevention module your aides receive.
EXPERIENCE → YOUR TRAINING
Adjunct instructor — Howard University DPT
She has taught movement science to doctoral students. Your aides get the same instructor, translated to the bedside.
EXPERIENCE → YOUR TRAINING
Certified first responder
Emergency preparedness and recognizing decline are taught by someone certified to respond when things go wrong — not just lecture about it.
Service area & travel zones
Serving the Little Rock metro
In-home sessions include travel within 15 miles of our West Little Rock base (317 S Shackleford Rd). From 15 miles out to the Cabot / Austin line, a $40 travel fee applies. Requests beyond that line may be considered — ask us.
Little RockNorth Little RockSherwoodMaumelleBryantJacksonvilleBentonConwayCabotAustinSearcy · by requestHot Springs · by requestPine Bluff · by request
Get started
Request a quote
Tell us your team size and how you'd like training delivered. We'll send pricing and the next open dates — usually within one business day.
Email
hello@viridianfirm.com
Phone
(501) 487-1555
Based in
Little Rock, Arkansas