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HomeCare News
DALLAS—Homecare Homebase (HCHB), a software provider for home-based care, announced the launch of its Agency Welcome Notification automated text type, part of HCHB's Patient Engagement product suite, designed to create strong patient relationships while optimizing operational efficiency.
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia—The National Home Infusion Association (NHIA) has announced the finalists for its 2025 Exhibitor Innovation Award. The award recognizes groundbreaking products or services that advance the home and alternate site infusion industry.
ST. LOUIS, Missouri—Responsive Respiratory (RRI) announced that its popular duration card has been given a facelift for 2025. The duration card, a staple resource for ambulatory oxygen patients, lists the most common medical oxygen cylinder sizes and the approximate duration for each when utilizing a continuous flow oxygen regulator or 6:1 conserver on a full cylinder.
IRVINE, California—Comfort Keepers, a provider of homecare for seniors and adults who need assistance, announced its sponsorship support for Caregiving, the documentary for PBS created with executive producer Bradley Cooper, highlighting the challenges and triumphs of caregiving in America.
BROOKFIELD, Wisconsin—RF Technologies (RFT), a provider of life safety and security solutions and a provider in the field of Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS) since 1987, announced its attendance at the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) 2025 Conference. The event will take place from March 31 to April 1 at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center in Boston, Massachusetts. RFT is exhibiting at booth 640.
SAN DIEGO—Senior Helpers, a national provider of in-home senior care services, is the first private duty in-home care provider in the United States to be Age-Friendly Care at Home certified by Community Health Accreditation
ARLINGTON, Virginia—In early March, the Trump Administration delayed proposed 25% tariff increases on products covered under the 2020 United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) until April. These potential new tariffs would join 20% tariffs on products from China already in effect.
COLUMBIA, South Carolina—RSi, a revenue cycle management service provider exclusively serving hospitals and health care systems, has been named a 2025 Top Workplaces USA national award winner.
NEW YORK—With a grant from The New York Community Trust (The Trust), the national, independent nonprofit FAIR Health has launched FH SHARE (Sharing Healthy Aging Resources and Education) NYC, a two-year, New York City-based initiative designed to disseminate educational tools that facilitate shared decision making and health care engagement among older patients and family caregivers.
DALLAS—Homecare HomebaseSM (HCHB), a software provider for home-based care, shared the impact its data resources, workflow automation and clinical expertise had on GrandCare Health Services during the COVID-19 pandemic.
WASHINGTON—Fresh off spotlighting the growing crisis of loneliness among older adults before a United States Senate Special Committee on Aging, Andrew MacPherson, founder and executive chair of the Foundation for Social Connection Action Network (F4SCAN)—one of the nation’s advocacy and community organization’s dedicated to advancing policies and initiatives strengthening social ties and threatenin
The United Spinal Association launched an Advocacy Impact Fund to support disability rights. The Association called the fund "a bold initiative to empower and amplify the voices of people with disabilities and fight back against these harmful policies."
PHILADELPHIA—Patina, the virtual and in-home care provider, announced the launch of a new population health service called Patina Total Health (TM). The service provides personalized, age-friendly care and support to help Medicare Advantage plan members stay healthy, get the right care and more easily navigate their health care.
NORTHFIELD, Illinois—Medline announced it has entered into a multi-year Prime Vendor distribution agreement with O'Neill Healthcare, a family-owned provider of senior care services in Ohio. Medline will be the primary supplier for O'Neill Healthcare's post-acute care business, spanning six skilled nursing buildings and additional home health, hospice care and home medical equipment (HME) operations.
MIAMI—Manuel Delgado, 64, plead guilty to accepting cash bribes and self-dealing as part of a conspiracy to impede and obstruct the lawful functions of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in their administration and oversight of the Medicare program.
DALLAS—Homecare Homebase (HCHB), a software provider for home-based care, has named Janie "Heather" Wilson, LCSW, social worker at Compassus in Brookhaven, Mississippi, as the March Gold Standard Award Winner.
MOORESTOWN, New Jersey—BAYADA Home Health Care—a nonprofit provider of home health, personal homecare, private duty nursing and hospice services—urged federal lawmakers to consider the cost-savings potential of home health care as they work to reduce federal expenditures.
SAN DIEGO—Resmed, a global provider in health technology focused on sleep, breathing and care delivered in the home, announced the publication of a landmark meta-analysis in
WASHINGTON—United Cerebral Palsy (UCP) and ANCOR, two national voices for providers of long-term support services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), released the inaugural Case for Inclusion Policy Blueprint for Sustainable Services.