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PLYMOUTH MEETING, Penn. (March 6, 2017)—Griswold Home Care, a national provider of services to help seniors age in place, announces the launch of GriswoldConnect Powered by Teladoc, a resource that can deliver consumers of all ages access to a live doctor without appointment or the need to physically travel to one. This marks the first pairing of Teladoc with a homecare agency.
AABENRAA, Denmark (March 6, 2017)—An intelligent diaper for everyday use, which alerts the care staff when the diaper needs changing, is being introduced for the first time. It is Danish manufacturing company, Abena who is behind the world’s first intelligent diaper for everyday use in cooperation with Silicon Valley based MediSens Wireless.
NEW YORK (February 28, 2017)—HHAeXchange, a connector of homecare payers, providers and members, released its inaugural State of Home Care 2017 survey results. This benchmark survey examines the current homecare experience, shedding light on how members are impacted and how states, payers and providers can make efforts to improve the industry.
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (February 24, 2017)—Visiting Angels of the Palm Beaches is proud to announce that it has received the 2017 Best of Home Care—Provider of Choice Award.
Visiting Angels of the Palm Beaches has won this award four years in a row, and is ranked one of the top ten, private duty homecare agencies in Palm Beach County. The Provider of Choice Award is based on client satisfaction scores gathered by Home Care Pulse, an independent research firm.
ROSEVILLE, Calif. (February 24, 2017)—Always Best Care Senior Services, a nationwide senior care franchise system, announced that it has opened its third franchise in Illinois. Always Best Care of DuPage provides senior care services in the Chicagoland area, including surrounding communities such as Bloomingdale, Lombard, Hinsdale, Wheaton, Elmhurst, Downers Grove, Oak Brook and Darien. The homecare agency is partly owned and operated by local Bloomingdale resident Dave Pawelek.
LOS ANGELES (February 23, 2017)—Heal, the app for on-demand doctor house calls, today announced the company is moving the needle towards changing the broken health care system through the transformative power of on-demand doctor house calls.
ATLANTA (February 20, 2017)—During this week’s HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition in Orlando, Florida, Brightree, a leading provider of cloud-based software to improve clinical and business performance of post-acute care companies, will join CommonWell Health Alliance, a not-for-profit trade association focused on fostering nationwide health data exchange, and Cer
ORLANDO (February 20, 2017)—Orbita, Inc., a provider of innovative software solutions for connected home health care, will join forces with Healthwise at HIMSS 2017 to showcase a breakthrough in remote patient engagement and education.
BRENTWOOD, Tenn. (February 16, 2017)—Compassus, a nationwide network of community-based hospice, palliative and home health programs, announced the addition of Kurt Merkelz, M.D., to the organization’s executive team as senior vice president and chief medical officer.
LONG BEACH, Calif. (February 16, 2017)—SCAN Group, a senior-focused organization with the mission of keeping seniors healthy and independent, announced the appointment of two new board members: Christobel E. Selecky and Dr. Linda Rosenstock. Selecky and Rosenstock lend their extensive business, medical and academic expertise to SCAN’s board of directors, fortifying its commitment to ensuring California’s seniors have access to quality care and community services.
ORLANDO, Fla. (February 15, 2017)—Nutrition support orders upon discharge from the hospital often don’t meet the needs of patients, according to Option Care data presented at the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (A.S.P.E.N.) Clinical Nutrition Week (CNW) conference. If orders are not corrected, patients may be overfed or underfed, both of which put them at health risk and in the case of overfeeding, adds unnecessary costs.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (February 14, 2017)—Senior Whole Health (SWH), which helps keep low-income seniors living independently at home by providing comprehensive health care and support services, enrolled its 20,000th member in February.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (February 10, 2017)—ENFit is a global change for all enteral tube feeding products. Users can expect to see changes to the connector ends on all feeding bags, enteral syringes and extensions. Half a million children and adults in the United States alone rely on feeding tubes, a number that is expected to increase by eight percent over the next three years, according to the Feeding Tube Awareness Week media page.
BOSTON (February 8, 2017)—Orbita, Inc., a leading provider of innovative software solutions for connected home health care, today announced a partnership with video collaboration solution provider, IVCi. The partnership will enable health care providers and home caregivers to easily connect homecare, mobile health and voice health assistant applications with scalable and secure video collaboration services.
SCRANTON, Penn. (February 8, 2017)—Penn Foster Career School, a skills training provider focused on improving employability for workers across a range of in-demand fields, announced the launch of its new regionally and nationally accredited Home Health Aide Diploma Program. Designed to provide individuals with the foundational skills needed to work in the field of home health care, the new program is offered online by Penn Foster and through its partnering organizations.
WESTBURY, N.Y. (February 7, 2017)—Enhancing the telemonitoring services it has been delivering for more than a decade, the Northwell Health Home Care Network today announced an agreement with Hoboken, New Jersey-based Health Recovery Solutions (HRS) that provides homecare patients with Bluetooth-enabled tablets that can transmit their vital signs to their clinicians, as well as videoconferencing capabilities.
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (January 30, 2017)—STEPS Home Care rings in the New Year by celebrating their five-year anniversary in Westchester County. During the past five years, STEPS has assisted over 750 clients to find compassionate and attentive caregivers allowing them to safely remain in their homes. The business milestone also coincides with STEPS fulfilling their goal to create job opportunities in the Westchester area.
