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Home health agencies utilize a wide variety of medical professionals to provide short- and long-term services to patients who are elderly, disabled or too ill to care for themselves. Home health care ...

A complaint investigation conducted at VNA Albany on Sept. 27, 2011, found that in three out of three cases the agency failed to ensure that the aides' plan of care included instructions for how to ...

Colin Campbell needs help dressing, bathing and moving between his bed and his wheelchair. He has a feeding tube because his partially paralyzed tongue makes swallowing "almost impossible," he says.

Here’s the problem: A senior parent wants to live in his own home, maintaining his independence, but he has trouble bathing, fixing meals and remembering to take his medications. The solution: You. As ...

The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) has earmarked $50 billion to improve health care offerings in rural communities – and home ...

What does your home care agency's team of caregivers do for your clients and patients? Your caregivers bring their knowledge, skill and empathy into clients' homes to make life a little easier, ...

In an age where public and private insurers are carefully watching every penny spent, health care providers have to document patient care very carefully. Medicare and private insurance companies, ...