At its Annual Conference on May 5, the Home Care Association of New York State (HCA) honored eight exceptional individuals and programs receiving HCA’s highest awards for excellence in home care and hospice.

Selfhelp Community Services provides a broad set of services to more than 25,000 elderly, frail, and vulnerable New Yorkers each year, while remaining the largest provider of comprehensive services to Holocaust survivors in North America. Selfhelp offers a complete network of home care and community-based services with the overarching goal of helping seniors live with dignity and independence and avoid institutionalization.

The state Department of Health has unveiled several changes to new staffing and spending rules for nursing homes, including the elimination of a minimum penalty for facilities that prove a mitigating circumstance prevented them from meeting the required nurse-staffing ratios.

Paulette Coley has worked for 20 years as a home care aid. A job that has become increasingly important and increasingly challenging during the pandemic.

It’s 6 a.m. As the sun rises in Rochester, senior home health aide Elaine Duckey mentally checks off the coronavirus symptoms she does not have this morning — no cough, shortness of breath or sore throat — and scrolls through the series of questions on her company-issued phone.

Over the years, training and “upskilling” in-home care workers has been a key strategy to improve retention for providers struggling with turnover.

At its 40th Anniversary Annual Conference in Saratoga Springs, NY on May 10, the Home Care Association of New York State (HCA) is presenting its 2018 annual awards to ten exceptional home care and hospice clinicians, caregivers, leaders in quality innovation, advocates, and physicians at the state and national levels.

When Lissette Marrero was 18, she dropped out of school in New York City to take care of her family. To make ends meet, she became a home health aide.

Fue un evento muy especial para Selfhelp cuando iniciamos nuestra primera clase de capacitación para ayudante de salud en el hogar, certificado en español, en 2007.