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Memorial Blood Centers Joins Extreme Makeover: Home Edition As Designated Charity

ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As the Emmy Award-winning reality TV series Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (EMHE) premieres its seventh season on the ABC network this fall, Minnesota-based Memorial Blood Centers will be among a select group as a Designated Charity for...

Wireless Home Healthcare to be $4 Billion Industry by 2013

DALLAS, Aug. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. market for wireless home-based healthcare applications and services will grow at a five-year cumulative annual growth rate of over 180% and become a $4.4 billion industry in 2013, according to Wireless Healthcare: Analysis & Foreca...

DME Billing Lets Home Care Providers Know How They are Doing in Real Time

Fastrack Healthcare Systems, Inc. has introduced a new technology offering including their new Scoreboard application. The Scoreboard is designed to provide management and staff with a quick at a glance screen showing key business indicators updated in real-time. Data can be displayed with a ch...

National Long Term Care Community Business Coalition Cautions Severe $16 Billion Medicare Cuts to Nursing Home Care Will Not Only Jeopardize Quality Care to Seniors but Deeply Impact Businesses that Support Sector, Contribute to Local Economies

Draconian Cuts to Medicare Compounded by Further Cuts Proposed in House Healthcare Reform Legislation and Inadequate Medicaid Funding from Weakened State Budgets WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Community Cares Coalition (CoCares) - a national coalition o...

Fastrack Release First Integrated HME Billing, Infusion Pharmacy & Home Care Agency Software in a Microsoft Environment

FASTRACK HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS announced today the availability of the first integrated DME Billing, Infusion Pharmacy Billing & Home HealthCare Agency Billing Software System. The FASTRACK Integrated IV, HME and Home Care Agency Solution is a Windows and ASP.NET developed product with a single...

Breakthrough Nursing Home Alternative Now Available to Cincinnati Elders and Their Families at Deupree Cottages

CINCINNATI, July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Cincinnati elders and their families can now choose a breakthrough alternative to traditional nursing homes. The new Deupree Cottages on Erie Avenue bordering Hyde Park offer a warm, inviting home supported by 24-hour professional nursing care. Here eld...

Infants Cared for in Another Home Become Heavier Toddlers

Being in own home, day-care centers didn't increase weight, study found THURSDAY, July 30 (HealthDay News) -- When infants attend day care in someone else's home, they're more likely to be heavier than average by the time they're toddlers, new research suggests. Harvard researchers...

American Association for Homecare Sets the Record Straight About Recent Home Medical Equipment Issues in the News

ARLINGTON, Va., July 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In response to recent media stories that perpetuate misperceptions about home medical equipment and services (durable medical equipment) and about the Medicare competitive bidding program for medical equipment, the American Association f...

Seven Tips for Safer Home Swimming Pools and Hot Tubs

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., July 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Now that summer is in full swing, stories about home pool or hot tub tragedies are making headlines across the county. With millions enjoying their summers by swimming in backyard pools and relaxing in hot tubs, the need for h...

Diabetes Screening Comes Home with A1c Testing

SANTA BARBARA, Calif., July 28 /PRNewswire/ -- BioIQ is offering turn-key A1c screening programs to help people assess their risk for diabetes, a devastating disease that impacts tens of millions of Americans. BioIQ's A1c test kits can be distributed at an employer wellness...

For Some Kidney Patients, Home Dialysis Is Better

Evidence suggests nighttime treatment yields better results SATURDAY, July 25 (HealthDay News) -- More than 340,000 Americans are on dialysis to treat kidney failure, but only a tiny fraction are taking advantage of a treatment option that may improve their quality of life. Studies ...

Expressing Growing Concern, THCA Urges Texas Congressional Delegation to Protect Seniors' Medicare-Funded Nursing Home Care as Health Reform Debate Proceeds

Potential Size of Cumulative Federal Medicare Cuts as Part of "Reform" Jeopardize Viability of Already-Troubled Texas Medicaid Program; Seniors' Care at Risk, Local Jobs Base Threatened AUSTIN, Texas, July 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Expressing growing concern t...

Gentiva(R) Health Services Signs Agreement to Acquire Home Health Agency with Offices in Mississippi and Alabama

ATLANTA, July 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Gentiva Health Services, Inc. (Nasdaq: GTIV ), a leading provider of comprehensive home health services, announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Magna Home Health, a part of the Rush Health System, located in central M...

House to Home Services is Selected as a Unique Health Provider

PHOENIX, July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- What do moving and health have in common? Well, according to EmpowHer, a lot! That's why this online resource dedicated to helping women has selected House to Home Services, LLC, a moving company with a heart, to be one of its unique health providers...

Silas Home Care Selects Cardiocom Telehealth Technology

MINNEAPOLIS, July 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Silas Home Care, Inc. announced that it has entered into a business relationship with Cardiocom(R) to provide advanced home telehealth technology to patients with chronic illness. Cardiocom, the Experts in Telehealth(SM), is a world class developer,...

Home Oxygen Patients and Family Members Visit Capitol Hill to Ask Congress to Protect Medicare Home Oxygen Therapy Benefit

Patient Advocates , Medicare Beneficiaries Visit Capitol Hill to Urge Congress to Pass Medicare Home Oxygen Therapy Act, Oppose Additional Cuts to Oxygen Benefit WASHINGTON, July 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Asking members of Congress to support patient-focused reform ...

National Advocacy Organization Representing Home Oxygen Patients Praises Introduction of Medicare Home Oxygen Therapy Act

NEW YORK, July 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Providing a voice to home oxygen patients nationwide, including patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and other lung diseases, the National Emphysema/COPD Association (NECA) today called the Medicare Home Oxygen The...

Federal Appeals Court Protects California Home Care Pay

SEIU deals Governor's wage cuts for home care workers one more legal blow OAKLAND, Calif., July 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- California home care recipients, care providers and their union, SEIU, are hailing another legal victory in their campaign to prevent the Schwarzenegger Adm...

Illinois Cemetery and Funeral Home Association Condemns Burr Oak Crimes

HOMEWOOD, Ill., July 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The Illinois Cemetery and Funeral Home Association (ICFHA) strongly condemns the crimes committed at Burr Oak Cemetery. "What these employees did violates everything we stand for, and offends a code of conduct that has governed our industry for centuri...

Contemptible: Governor, State Officials Defy Court Order to Stop Home Care Cuts, Says SEIU

OAKLAND, Calif., July 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which represents more than 200,000 California home care workers, filed a motion with U.S. District Court to hold the State in contempt for illegally cutting the wages of In-Home Supportive S...

Health Integrated Hosts Industry Collaborative Focused on the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH)

TAMPA, Fla., July 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Integrated, a leading provider of Health Management Solutions, has formally launched a collaborative focused on the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH), an emerging healthcare delivery model focused on improving care while reducing healthca...

Boca Raton, FL Becomes Home of Dale Buchanan's Supreme Ultimate Fitness

BOCA RATON, Fla., July 6 /PRNewswire/ -- After 25 years in the fitness industry teaching martial arts, T'ai Chi, personal training, and other fitness classes, Dale Buchanan, a Washington, DC native, has created an entirely new fitness system and will be teaching it to South Florida in his new stud...

Armed Forces Retirement Home Selects Millennium's Pharmacy Services

CHICAGO, July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Millennium Pharmacy Systems, a leading provider of pharmacy services to the long-term care industry, today announced that the Armed Forces Retirement Home (AFRH) selected Millennium as its pharmacy service provider. Selected as a replacement to its existing pha...

New Assisted Living at Home (assistedlivingathome.com) Database Locates Ideal Retirement Communities for Your Loved One

LOS ANGELES, June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Assisted Living At Home just launched a country-wide database of retirement homes with extensive ratings and reviews. Finding a quality retirement community is a tough task. There are few services and resources out there dedicated to assisting famil...

THCA on 2009 Legislative Session: Seniors' Medicaid-Financed Nursing Home Care Requires Substantially More Investment as Population Ages, Care Needs Grow

$60 Million Medicaid Funding Boost Merely Scratches Surface in Terms of Meeting Seniors' Realistic Needs AUSTIN, Texas, June 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In summing up the 2009 session of the Texas Legislature prior to the initiation of the special session called by Governor Rick Perry, the ...

Eight Miami-Area Residents Charged in $22 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme Involving Home Health Care Agencies

Medicare Fraud Strike Force Charges Individuals, Freezes Assets WASHINGTON, June 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Eight Miami-Dade County, Fla., residents have been indicted in connection with an alleged $22 million Medicare fraud scheme operated out of Miami businesses purporting to specialize...

In Response to SEIU Lawsuit... Judge Orders State to Halt Wage Cut For California Home Care Workers

OAKLAND, Calif., June 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A U.S. District Court judge issued an injunction Thursday afternoon ordering the state of California to halt a proposed $2 cut in wages for the state's 400,000 home care workers. The injunction has the effect of stopping pay cuts in all Califor...

Women's Sexual Health Issues Hit Home

U.S. survey finds two-thirds have had sex-related stress, anxiety THURSDAY, June 25 (HealthDay News) -- A new survey finds that 70 percent of American women have experienced a sexual health issue, and 22 percent felt very or extremely concerned about it. The survey defined a sexual ...

Gentiva(R) Health Services Acquires Louisiana Home Health Agency

ATLANTA, June 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Gentiva Health Services, Inc. (Nasdaq: GTIV ), a leading provider of comprehensive home health services, announced today that it has acquired Mid-State Home Health, one of central Louisiana's top-three home healthcare providers. Established in 1991...

Englewood Hospital Home Health and Hospice Services Selects Cardiocom Telehealth Technology

MINNEAPOLIS, June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Englewood Hospital Home Health and Hospice Services, the oldest homecare agency in Bergen County NJ, announced that it has entered into a business relationship with Cardiocom (R) to provide advanced home telehealth technology to patients with chronic illness. ...

Ovu-Trac(R) Home Test Kit From OvumOptics Predicts Ovulation with 96.2% Accuracy

Ovu-Trac®, an Ovulation Predictor Kit now available in the United States for the first time, has been found to predict ovulation with 96.2% accuracy. This fertility predictor has been used successfully by tens of thousands of women throughout Canada, and has recently passed Food and Drug Adm...

Slugs a home run with NIH

VIRGINIA KEY, Fla. -- The National Resource for Aplysia at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science has had its resources grant with the National Institute for Health (NIH) extended for an additional five years. The National Resource for Aplysia is the only f...

Registered Nurses of ProMedica Home Care to Hold Election

TOLEDO, Ohio, June 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On June 10, 2009 ProMedica Continuing Care Services and the Ohio Nurses Association (ONA) signed a Stipulated Election Agreement which allows the Registered Nurses of ProMedica Home Care to hold an election to determine if they want union represen...

New Online Home Health Service Launched in California to Expand Direct Patient Care Time While Lowering Costs

Today, HealthCare California announces that it is the first home health agency in California to implement an online service that answers the call from national leaders to utilize technology to improve health care. This home health software service equips all HealthCare California nursing and adm...

Excell Home Care & Hospice, Inc. Selects Cardiocom Telehealth Technology

MINNEAPOLIS, June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Excell Home Care & Hospice, Inc., a leading provider of home care and hospice services in Oklahoma, announced it has entered into a business relationship with Cardiocom(R) to provide advanced home telehealth technology to patients with chronic illness. Car...

American Red Cross and National Swimming Pool Foundation Promote Water Safety and Good Home Pool Maintenance With New Online Course

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., June 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Red Cross and National Swimming Pool Foundation(R) announced today the premiere of the online Home Pool Essentials(TM): Maintenance and Safety course. Home Pool Essentials teaches pool care and water safety techniques to help home pool ...

Neutral Factfinder Rules That Fresno County Home Care Wage Cuts Should Be Stopped

FRESNO, Calif., June 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An independent factfinder jointly hired by Fresno County and SEIU UHW to resolve the on-going dispute over the County's plan to cut the wages and benefits of 10,000 home care workers in the Fresno area, ruled against the County today and ordered t...

New Home Drug Hair Test Kit Now Available from Bartell Drugs; HairConfirm Detects 90-Day Drug Use & Usage Frequency

HairConfirm, a new home drug hair test kit designed to help parents combat teen drug use, is now available from Bartell Drugs Seattle, CA (Vocus) June 11, 2009 -- HairConfirm, a new home drug hair test kit designed to help parents combat teen drug use, is now available ...

Want to Learn How to Testify? New Home Study Course by Practicing Physician Teaches Medical Malpractice Defendants and Physicians How to be Effective in Court

"Medical Malpractice Expert Witnessing: Introductory Guide for Physicians and Medical Professionals" (Potomac Press, ISBN-10: 1420058959, 592 pages) with a complete CD-ROM by Perry Hookman MD can be purchased at http://www.MedMalBook.com . Rockville, MD (PRWE...

Families, Consumers of Home Care Impacted by Budget Cuts to Hold Noon Vigil Outside Fresno Board of Supervisors Meeting as Clock Ticks Down to July 1st Deadline

FRESNO, Calif., June 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --Representatives and supporters, including SEIU UHW, of the more than 12,000 families who rely on In-Home Support Services to care for elderly or disabled loved ones will hold a vigil on Tuesday at noon outside of the Fresno Board of Supervisors meet...