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New HCAOA Executive Director Vicki Hoak Profiled in Home Health Care News
 In an interview with Home Health Care News, new HCAOA Executive Director Vicki Hoak outlined her immediate priorities for the Association. Hoak described the importance of connecting caregivers at the state level in addition to providing advocacy support at the federal level.
Hoak also discussed some of the issues related to caregiver shortages, identifying attraction and retention as key issues to address for home care providers.
Finally, while talking about the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)’s efforts to incorporate home care as part of Medicare coverage, Hoak described the importance of having data to demonstrate home care’s value in keeping people at home.
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Guest Contribution: Refuel Your Caregivers with These Engaging, Re-Energizing Strategies
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Recognizing and addressing the challenges faced by professional caregivers can mean the difference between engaging those staff members and allowing them to drift out the door to another job. Their role and typical duties may vary in different settings, but they are always important in helping client satisfaction and referrals flowing. Effective leaders will find ways to refuel their caregivers by showing them they care. Consider these five strategies for fueling caregiver engagement.
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It’s Open Enrollment Season—Have You Looked at Our Member Health Plan?
We’ve partnered with OneDigital and Benefit Indemnity Corporation to offer a health insurance plan to our members. The plan includes the following benefits:
- Valuable Group risk assessment report
- Association rate advantages
- Multiple options for Groups of 5 or more
- Standard benefits across state lines
- Preferred rates for Qualified Groups
If you have questions, please contact:
Erik Olafsson, OneDigtal Health and Benefits
703-429-1034
eolafsson@onedigital.com
Program Brought to You By:
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Help Us Recognize Exceptional Caregivers with The Faces of Caregiving
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The heartbeat of our industry lies in our caregivers—the people who are on the ground, working with clients to help them to their best possible quality of life. With that in mind, we have created Faces of Caregiving – a storytelling project focused on showing the incredible work professional caregivers do every day. The campaign will feature profiles of exemplary caregivers, which are posted monthly on the HCAOA website.
The newest caregivers featured include our 2019 Caregiver of the Year, Jeff Huitt of Comfort Keepers in Bremerton, Wa., and Eva Coleman of Martha’s Hands in St. Louis, Mo.
If you have a special caregiver at your organization whom you would like to see recognized, please use our online form to submit them; submissions to past Caregiver of the Year Award nominations are also considered.
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Save the Date for the 2020 Annual Leadership Conference!
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Looking To Become More Involved In the HCAOA? Now Is Your Chance!
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Are you looking for an opportunity to become more involved in the HCAOA? Now is your chance! The Conference Committee has two (2) openings available for HCAOA Members. The Conference Committee will begin to plan the Annual Leadership Conference in bi-weekly meetings beginning in January. The Conference will be held on October 4-5 at the Hilton Orlando Hotel in Orlando, FL. Some of the benefits of joining this Committee are:
- FREE Conference registration to the 2020 Annual Leadership Conference
- Networking with other HCAOA Members & Board Members
- Opportunity to share thoughts and ideas to improve future conferences
If you are interested in joining this Committee that shapes the Annual Leadership Conference, please click here to complete the 2020 Conference Committee Interest Form. Please submit the completed form by Friday, November 29, 2019.
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Webinar Call for Speakers
HCAOA Wants to Hear From You!
Do you have topic or speaker suggestions for the HCAOA Webinar Program? If so, we want to hear from you! We are currently seeking topics and speakers for the 2020 webinar program line-up.
Please complete the Webinar Program Call for Speaker form HERE and it will be reviewed by HCAOA. Please contact Andrea Liford-Martinez at andrea@hcaoa.org with any questions.
Thank you for your submissions!
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HCAOA Georgia
Join Us TOMORROW at the Georgian Terrace Hotel
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Don't miss out on the opportunity to network with your colleagues in the home care industry, receive an update on the latest legislative happenings, and discuss recent developments in the industry.
The Meeting Agenda is as follows:
- Meeting Compliance Requirements with Fingerprinting: Elaine Wright, Director of State Licensure Programs, DCH
- State Medicaid Budget Challenges: Rep. Butch Parrish (invited)
- Top 10 Private Care Licensure Violations Cited: Michele Robinson, Director of Private Homecare HFRD
- Legislative Committee Agenda: Dave Lamb, Legislative Chair, HCAOA Georgia
- Federal HCAOA Legislative Update: Patrick Cooney, The Federal Group, HCAOA National Lobbyist.
- State Legislative Update: Rusty Paul, HCAOA Georgia Lobbyist and Rep. Jesse Petrae
- Election for Vacant Board Seat
Date/Time: Thursday, November 14, 10am - 2pm
Location: Georgian Terrace Hotel
659 Peachtree Street NE | Atlanta, GA 30308
Cost: $75 members/$150 non-members (lunch is included)
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 Click here to register
SPONSORED BY ALAYACARE
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HCAOA Illinois
6th Annual Private Duty Symposium a Resounding Success
Early this morning staff and volunteers from HCAOA Illinois, LeadingAge Illinois, and the Illinois Homecare and Hospice Council arrived at the Naperville campus of Northern Illinois University (NIU), to staff the 6th Annual Private Duty Symposium. The Symposium is a joint venture of all three organizations aimed at bringing the best educational content for providers of home care and hospice in Illinois. HCAOA Illinois Chapter Chair Katie Fielmann delivered welcoming remarks to the Symposium’s attendees. The keynote speaker, Dr. William Rhoades of Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, opened the educational sessions with interesting predictions about the future of health care, and how changes to care delivery will impact home care providers.
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Dr. Rhoades delivering the keynote presentation at the Private Duty Symposium
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Following Dr. Rhoades was Margaret Fitzpatrick, a nurse and author, who discussed how home care providers can help their clients to avoid the “ER boomerang.”
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Fitzpatrick presenting to a packed auditorium at NIU
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In addition to the excellent educational content, attendees were also able to interact with 15 exhibitors and sponsors offering useful products and services from software to insurance.
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More than 100 PDS attendees interacting with exhibitors and sponsors
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We would like to thank our two sponsors, AlayaCare and Honor Care Network, for their support.
The day continued with two separate breakouts, each with three tracks to help guide best practices in private duty care. Track A focused on dementia, track B was focused on business operations, and track C focused on legal issues.
The last speaker of the day was Jack Fleeharty of the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) who provided an update on key IDPH policies, helping attendees to stay informed of policy changes.
The day ended with a raffle with fabulous prizes provided by our exhibitors; winners received gifts ranging from an Echo Dot to a $100 gift card.
Nataly Schwartz, Director of Programs and Operations for HCAOA, closed the Symposium and thanked LeadingAge Illinois and the Illinois Homecare and Hospice Council for their support in planning the Symposium.
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Volunteers Needed for May Annual Meeting Planning
HCAOA Illinois needs you to help us plan the Annual Chapter Meeting in May. Please reach out to Nataly Schwartz (nataly@hcaoa.org, 202-508-3872) if you are interested in joining the Chapter’s Meeting Planning Committee.
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HCAOA Michigan
Join us on December 5th for an HCAOA Michigan chapter meeting at the Anderson House Office Building in Lansing from 9:00 a.m. to noon. Lunch will follow the meeting. Click here to register.
Date: Thursday, December 5
Time: 9:00 a.m. – noon CST
Location: Anderson House Office Building
124 North Capitol Avenue
Lansing, MI 48933
Mackinac Room
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Congress to Push Spending Fight to End of December
Congress plans to extend government funding through Dec. 20, averting the risk of a shutdown next week but setting up a potential spending fight amid likely impeachment votes before the end of the year.
Democratic House Appropriations Chairwoman Nita Lowey and Republican Senate Appropriations Chairman Richard Shelby settled on the time frame for the short-term spending measure in a meeting Tuesday.
Lowey and Shelby in recent weeks also discussed an extension into January or beyond, but leaders in both parties wanted a shorter stopgap to keep the pressure on for a full-year spending deal.
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Hearing on Caring for Aging Americans
House Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal announced that the Committee will hold a hearing entitled “Caring for Aging Americans” on Thursday, November 14, 2019. HCAOA has been engaged with the Committee on the role that Medigap plans might play in the future to offer coverage for home care services to Medicare beneficiaries. HCAOA plans to submit a statement for the record of this hearing and will be in attendance on Thursday to hear from the Committee and witnesses.
The hearing is an opportunity for HCAOA to also highlight its support for the Credit for Caring Act (S.1443/H.R2730). This Act is sponsored by Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA), Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO), Senator Shelley Capito (R-WV), Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) in the Senate, and Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-CA) and Rep. Tom Reed (R-NY) in the House of Representatives. This legislation begins to address concerns with access to home care and other long-term care services in the U.S. by authorizing a non-refundable tax credit for family caregivers.
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Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY)
Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee
Nita Lowey is the first woman to lead the House Appropriations Committee, claiming the gavel after Democrats took the majority in the 2018 midterm elections. Lowey had been ranking member since 2013. She also has the distinction of leading the panel alongside Rep. Kay Granger of Texas, the first Republican woman to serve as the ranking member. After 31 years in Congress, Lowey announced on Oct. 10, 2019, that she would not seek reelection in 2020.
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Nita Lowey is the first woman to lead the House Appropriations Committee, claiming the gavel after Democrats took the majority in the 2018 midterm elections. Lowey had been ranking member since 2013. She also has the distinction of leading the panel alongside Rep. Kay Granger of Texas, the first Republican woman to serve as the ranking member. After 31 years in Congress, Lowey announced on Oct. 10, 2019, that she would not seek reelection in 2020.
Lowey has a close relationship with Democratic leaders including Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Dennis said. She served on the Appropriations Committee with Pelosi, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (Md.) and Whip James Clyburn (S.C.) earlier in their careers.
A native of the Bronx and a graduate of Mount Holyoke College, Lowey was raising three children in Queens when she got into politics by helping out the political campaign of a neighbor, Mario Cuomo. While he lost his bid for lieutenant governor, he hired Lowey when he became secretary of state before he went on to become governor.
Lowey was New York’s assistant secretary of state from 1985 to 1987 before being elected to the House of Representatives in 1988.
After deciding not to run for Senate in 2000, her name was floated to take over Clinton’s Senate seat upon her being named secretary of state by President Obama. But she once again turned down the opportunity.
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Home Care Association of America
444 N. Capitol Street NW, Suite 397, Washington, DC 20001
Phone: 800-22-HCAOA Email: info@hcaoa.org Website: www.hcaoa.org
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