LIBERTY LAKE, Wash. (March 22, 2022)—Family Resource Home Care announced that it has received nine Best of Home Care Awards from the annual Home Care Pulse report that honors agencies that achieve best-in-class client and caregiver satisfaction scores in the Provider of Choice and Employer of Choice category from Home Care Pulse. These awards are granted only to the top-ranking homecare providers, based on caregiver satisfaction scores gathered by Home Care Pulse.
SCHAUMBURG, Ill. (March 22, 2022)—Complia Health, a home health and hospice technology solutions provider, announced today the launch of EMMA (Electronic Medical Management Assistant), which leverages artificial intelligence to automate time consuming daily tasks and enable care agencies to increase productivity.
SACREMENTO, Calif. (March 18, 2022)—Two members of a network that operated and facilitated a large-scale “grandparent scam,” pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy. Timothy Ingram, aka Bleezy, 29, of North Hollywood, California pleaded guilty on March 2, and Jack Owuor, 25, of Paramount, California pleaded guilty on March 9.
STEVENS POINT, Wis. (March 18, 2022)—Perceptive Solutions, Inc., maker of WoundZoom Digital Wound Management, has announced the expanded functionality and benefits of their WoundZoom Mobile application with auto-border wound detection technology among the primary solution developments. These expanded capabilities create further workflow efficiencies for healthcare providers that measure, document and treat wounds.
CHICAGO (March 18, 2022)—Inc. magazine announced that Dina, an AI-powered care-at-home platform and network, is No. 40 on the third annual Inc. 5000 Regionals Midwest list, the most prestigious ranking of the fastest-growing private companies based in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin. The regional ranking, an offshoot of the annual Inc.
BURKBENNET, Texas (March 18, 2022)—HomeWell Care Services, a nonmedical in-home care provider, has hired Erika Ehlers, a 25-year learning and training veteran, as senior director of training. Ehlers is the latest in a series of strategic hires by HomeWell to support new and future owners of the rapidly growing franchise brand, which recently posted record results for 2021.
ALBANY, N.Y. (March 17, 2022)—The American Association for Homecare (AAHomecare) is working with the North East Medical Equipment Providers Association (NEMEP) on legislative efforts to pass rate floor bills in the New York state legislature that would require Medicaid managed care organizations to pay at least 100% of the state Medicaid fee schedule.
AMSTERDAM (March 17, 2022)—Royal Philips, a global provider of health technology, announced the expansion of its medical device cybersecurity services portfolio at HIMSS22. Philips is introducing Secure Remote Access Management Service, leveraging the broad set of security capabilities enabled by the integration of SecureLink’s critical access management and governance technology with Philips Remote Services’ secure connectivity framework for technical and clinical support.
DUNBRIDGE, Ohio (March 17, 2022)—Principle Business Enterprises, Inc. (PBE) announced the achievement of more than three years and over 2 million consecutive hours worked without an OSHA Lost-Time Accident as of Feb. 28, 2022.
“Our goal remains zero injuries every day,” said David Kisor, PBE Safety Supervisor. “We continually raise the bar for safety standards across the organization to ensure our Associates return home safe to their loved ones.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 17, 2022)—The American Association for Homecare (AAHomecare) recently joined with respiratory stakeholders and patient advocates in letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Commerce leaders requesting that their agencies prioritize allocating semiconductor chips to manufacturers of home respiratory devices.