Earlier this year, BLACK+DECKER entered the personal emergency response system (PERS) market with the launch of BLACK+DECKER Health. The home solutions manufacturer partnered with Medical Guardian to provide the goVia PERS devices and monitoring services to customers.
NEW YORK (JULY 20, 2021)—Healthify, a company that works with health care organizations to integrate social determinants of health (SDoH) into the health care ecosystem, and the Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY), one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit home and community-based health care organizations, announced a partnership to improve the health and well-being of patients throughout the New York Metropolitan Area by addressing vital social needs.
FRESNO, Calif. (July 20, 2021)—Packed with patented new features and a new frame design, the QUICKIE Nitrum ultra-light wheelchair has become a global phenomenon. In less than a month after launch, Nitrum was awarded "Retailer's Choice of the Year 2020" by one of the most influential European trade magazines, "THIIS" in the United Kingdom. The Nitrum’s brand new 3D visualizer on the Sunrise Medical website has attracted more than 30,000 users globally.
WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, N.C. (July 20, 2021)—MyWoundDoctor, a provider of virtual tech-enabled wound care services offered through a patent-pending AI-based process, announced a Series B investment from Claritas Capital, a Nashville-based private equity firm.
WASHINGTON, D.C (July 16, 2021)—The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and a group of like-minded organizations representing America's health providers have written a letter to Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), asking them to:
• oppose an extension of mandatory Medicare sequestration as a pay-for in any infrastructure package; and
WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 16, 2021)—The Council for Quality Respiratory Care (CQRC)—a coalition of the nation's leading home respiratory therapy providers and manufacturing companies—expressed concern in response to the Proposed Decision Memo for Home Use of Oxygen and Home Oxygen Use to Treat Cluster Headaches, which outlines proposed changes to documentation requirements put in place to protect providers and patient access by two National Coverage Determinations (NCDs) related to home oxygen.
BURKBURNETT, Texas (July 16, 2021)—HomeWell Care Services, franchised by HomeWell Franchising Inc., a non-medical in-home care franchisors, is featured this month in an episode of “Designing Spaces” focused on aging in place. The episode aired Friday, July 9, 2021, at 7:30 a.m. (ET) on Lifetime with an encore presentation airing on Friday, July 16 at 7:30 a.m. (ET). A stream of the episode is available at the Designing Spaces website.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (July 16, 2021)—Officials at LUCI and Sunrise Medical announce their partnership, which will soon make LUCI’s smart wheelchair technology available to thousands of new users of the popular QUICKIE line of power wheelchairs.
LARKSPUR, Calif. (July 16, 2021)—By the Bay Health (BTBH) announced the appointment of Amira Barger, Tracy Stempel Hogan and Greg LeClaire to the board of directors. These three new board appointments reflect the organization’s broadening services and expanding role serving the Bay Area with hospice care, palliative care, comfort care, grief counseling, pediatric care and skilled home health care services.
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (July 15, 2021)—Mission Healthcare, one of California’s largest home health, hospice and palliative care providers, announced the acquisition of Northern California-based Healthy Living Network, a multi-state provider of home health.