Home & Hospice Care License Plate

Tim Rogers posted on March 24, 2010 16:17

Home Care License Plate: We must have 300 applications in hand before NCDMV will begin to manufacture our special ‘Home Care’ License plate. We are about two-thirds of the way there and need your help!

To promote Home Care AHHC is willing to pay everyone’s first year fee – until our goal is reached! The DMV application can be found on our website at www.homeandhospicecare.org. Click here to download the application form directly. Or call us at (919) 848-3450 and apply for your ‘Home Care & Hospice’ license plate.

Sincerely,

Tim Rogers, CEO

timrogers@homeandhospicecare.org

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NC Home Health Agencies Rank 2nd in the Nation - Quality Project

Tim Rogers posted on March 04, 2010 10:56

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Tim Rogers, CEO

Phone:          919-848-3450
Fax:              919-848-2355
E-mail:         timrogers@homeandhospicecare.org

North Carolina Home Health Agencies Rank 2^nd in the Nation in Participation in National Campaign to

Reduce Avoidable Hospitalizations and Improve Medication Management

Raleigh, NC (March 4, 2010) – Not quite two months into the national home health quality improvement campaign kicked off on January 13^th at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) headquarters in Baltimore, MD, North Carolina Home Health Agencies have indicated their dedication to improving the health status of North Carolinians and are ranked 2^nd in the nation in the percentage of agencies participating in the National Campaign.

Known as the Home Health Quality Improvement (HHQI) National Campaign, the initiative is a grassroots movement designed to unite home health stakeholders and multiple health care settings under a shared vision of reducing avoidable hospitalizations and improving medication management. These goals will be accomplished through the distribution of tools, resources, guidelines, information and best practice education to home health agencies across the country that agree to participate.

The Association for Home & Hospice Care of North Carolina (AHHC) is serving as a Local Area Network for Excellence (LANE) for NC. LANEs are stakeholder organizations that serve as the central hubs of activity in the HHQI National Campaign. These key partners create campaign awareness, provide participant encouragement and facilitate communication among agencies. LANEs also facilitate agency recruitment.

“We are committed to working in this partnership with CMS to improve clinical outcomes for patients and to prevent unnecessary hospitalizations. We are very proud that NC Home Health Agencies are national leaders in this endeavor.” said Tim Rogers, CEO of AHHC.

More information about the campaign can be found on the campaign’s Web site at www.homehealthquality.org.

The Association for Home & Hospice Care of NC is a non-profit trade association representing home health care agencies, hospice care agencies and facilities, and licensed home care agencies.

For more information about AHHC, please visit www.homeandhospicecare.org.

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Send Three Emails to Save NC Home Health Medicaid PDN

Tim Rogers posted on November 09, 2009 10:41

Medicaid Director Craigan L. Gray is cutting home care to 350 Medicaid patients who suffer from MS, Cerebral Palsy and crippling diseases.

Medicaid PDN (Private Duty Nurses) is a little known program that serves 350 of the sickest and frailest people in North Carolina. These patients are paralyzed, have tracheotomies, use ventilators and are fed through tubes. And many are infants and young children.

Please take a moment to look at this video – which tells the story of eleven of these patients.

We will begin airing this video – on the Internet – across North Carolina Monday. And we are sending it to legislators and the press. I thank you for helping make this possible.

Cordially,

Tim Rogers

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Penny Wise and Pound Foolish

Tim Rogers posted on October 15, 2009 13:10

Duke Hospital, one of the most respected medical centers in the nation, has a new program that cuts health care costs with a novel use of ‘Home Care.’

Recently a University of California study has demonstrated how Home Care reduces health care costs: By keeping elderly people in their homes and out of more expensive Nursing Homes, by reducing the number of Emergency Room visits, hospital stays - and now with ‘Home Infusion Therapy.’

For years Medicaid has had a bias in favor of institutional care – for instance, by law states must provide Nursing Home Care but not Home Care. But today that’s changing – as part of a new Medicaid program twenty-nine states are embracing Home Care to improve the quality of care, reduce costs – and make patients happier.

Unfortunately, our state’s Medicaid policy remains tilted in favor of sending patients to Nursing Homes. In fact, the state just cut rates to Home Care providers, saying it would save money. But, in fact, the state is being ‘penny-wise and pound-foolish.’ Cutting Home Care rates means fewer providers, which means more patients have no choice but to go into Nursing Homes for care – which costs a lot more. It also means more ER visits. And more hospital stays. All of which lead to higher – not lower – health care costs.

It doesn't make sense: Other states are moving people out of Nursing Homes, back into their own homes - while our state can't move people into Nursing Homes fast enough.

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