WATERLOO, Iowa (January 11, 2017)—Planning is well underway for Essentially Women’s annual education conference and trade show.
Focus: The EW Conference will take place September 16–18 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The three-day Focus Conference will provide EW members with continuing education and training opportunities, resources to improve operational efficiencies and connect women’s health care professionals, industry consultants and vendors.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (January 11, 2017)—AAHomecare’s State Leaders Council, comprised of state association leadership from across the country, formed a Work Group to collaboratively develop strategies and coordinate resources for tackling the provision in recent CURES legislation that limits the federal portion of Medicaid spending to competitive bidding prices for DMEPOS starting in 2018.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (January 9, 2017)—The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today finalized rules governing home health agencies that will improve the quality of health care services for Medicare and Medicaid patients and strengthen patients’ rights. These Medicare and Medicaid Conditions of Participation are the minimum health and safety standards a home health agency must meet in order to participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
SAN FRANCISCO (January 9, 2017)—ResMed announced today at the 35th annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared ResMed's AirMini, the world's smallest continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) device.
ResMed's tiny yet fully-featured AirMini, to be launched later this year, is designed as a secondary CPAP, making it easier for people to continue their sleep apnea therapy while traveling.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (January 5, 2017)—As home medical equipment providers and manufacturers seek better ways to improve patient outcomes, they are frustrated by reimbursement methodologies that lag behind innovations in products and services.
ROSEVILLE, Calif. (January 4, 2017)—Always Best Care Senior Services, one of the leading senior care franchise systems in the United States, announced today that Michael Friedberg and his partner Di Guo have acquired the Philadelphia Main Line territory. Always Best Care of Main Line provides senior care services in the Philadelphia metro area and surrounding communities. The new business is a family operated business.
EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. & DARTMOUTH, Mass. (January 4, 2017)—Care Resource, an East Providence-based home health agency, homecare and medical supply company serving Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts, announces it has once again earned full accreditation from the Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC) through 2019 for both the East Providence, Rhode Island, and Dartmouth, Massachusetts locations.
ATLANTA (January 4, 2017)—On December 20, 2016, GF Health Products, Inc. ("Graham-Field"), Fond du Lac Manufacturing welcomed Representative Glenn Grothman of Wisconsin's 6th Congressional District. The senior vice president of Manufacturing Operations, Kurt Hellman, conducted a brief plant tour to highlight the facility's product lines and plant capabilities. Following the tour, Representative Grothman addressed the Fond du Lac team with a question and answer session.
EXETER, Penn. (January 4, 2017)—Quantum Rehab and Georgia Tech are pleased to announce that they have embarked on a landmark research study that examines how power adjustable seat height is clinically utilized by wheelchair users in their everyday lives.
