How to transfer your Home health aide licence to New Hampshire (2026)

Home health aides in New Hampshire are listed on a state registry rather than licensed: the New Hampshire nurse aide or home care aide registry. In New Hampshire the registry is the New Hampshire Board of Nursing (Licensed Nursing Assistant). New Hampshire licenses nursing assistants (LNA) rather than certifying them, so an out-of-state CNA applies for an LNA by endorsement. This page says what a home health aide licensed or working in another state has to do to work in New Hampshire, in the order to do it, and what goes wrong when the order is reversed.

How the transfer works

A home health aide credential is tied to the agency and the state. If you hold a CNA certificate, transfer it by reciprocity to New Hampshire's registry and most agencies accept it. If you hold only an HHA certificate, New Hampshire's rules decide whether the training transfers; many states ask you to complete a short state-approved course or competency test with the new agency.

Training or experience the licence expects: 75 federal minimum training hours for Medicare-certified agencies, more in several states.

How long: two to six weeks for a CNA reciprocity; an HHA-only course can be two weeks. Fee: nothing to about $50 for a registry application; the current figure is on the licensing body's own site.

What to have ready before you move

• Your CNA certificate if you have one
• The training certificate and hours from your current agency
• Proof of paid care work in the last two years

Start the paperwork before you give notice. Every week the licence is not done is a week you are not paid, and nothing in the process needs you to be in New Hampshire already.

What people get wrong

• Assuming an agency certificate is a state credential; it usually is not
• Skipping the CNA route when you qualify; a CNA transfers, an HHA certificate often does not

Who hires home health aides in New Hampshire

Home health aides in New Hampshire are hired by home health agencies, hospice, private-duty care and state Medicaid programs. The metros with the most of that work are Manchester, Nashua and Concord. Employers who could not hire locally and have filed with the Department of Labor are on the New Hampshire openings page.

For the money side: the median home health aide in New Hampshire earned $36,610 a year ($18 an hour) in May 2024 across 8,210 jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and New Hampshire has no state income tax on wages. What that leaves you after tax is its own page.

Everything about New Hampshire, on one page

The New Hampshire page has the registries and boards, the income tax table, the programs that pay you to come and the openings filed this month. If you know which state you are leaving, the move pages compare the two directly. Creating a free Workmerica profile with your trade and your destination puts you in front of New Hampshire employers hiring from out of state.