Author: Tom Meyer

Tom Meyer is the Alliance's Membership Coordinator and Webmaster. His email address is tmeyer@thinkhomecare.org.

Follow the Conference on Twitter

Whether you’re with us in Sturbridge – or anywhere – you can follow the entire conference by following the #CSIMass hashtag on Twitter.

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2010 Membership eRenewals Available

It’s that time of year again!

For the second year in a row, agencies may renew their membership via our e-Renewal system.  If you are the CEO/President/Primary Contact of an agency member, just log-in to www.thinkhomecare.org, click to view your profile, access the company’s profile, complete the online form, and choose your payment option.

The process is easy, and generally takes less than 10 minutes.  I will email detailed instructions to CEOs/Presidents/Primary Contacts early next week.

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2010 Compensation & Surveys – Participation Open

For over fifteen years, the Alliance’s Compensation & Benefits Survey Reports have provided participating agencies reliable, comprehensive, local compensation data on a broad range of job titles in home care.

As we did last year, we are conducting two separate surveys: one for certified agencies, another for private agencies.  We are released the certified agency survey questions  on May 26, 2010, and will release the private care agency survey in June.  Agencies can submit data and receive reports for either or both sections of the survey.

To access the survey materials, visit the Survey Participation Page/Order Form.  Completed surveys must be returned to dwudyka@westminsterassociates.com by June 10, 2010.

The price structure is the same as last year: $149 for the certified survey; $79 for the private care survey; or $199 for both.  Note that these prices are for participating agencies only!  Agencies that do not submit data and payment by will be charged more than double the participant fees to receive the reports.

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Website Troubles are Fixed!

Please bear with us while we sort out some difficulties with our website.  We expect it to be operating properly by tomorrow.

Update 05/11/2010: The website has been completely restored.  If you encounter any problems, please call the Alliance office.

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HCA Welcomes New Member: Guardian Angel Senior Services, Inc.

The Alliance is pleased to welcome its newest member, Guardian Angel Senior Services, Inc., a private duty agency located in North Billerica, Massachusetts.

Search for a home care provider by town and/or service, visit our interactive Provider Search.

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HCA Welcomes New Member: Careproviders of Blackstone Valley

The Alliance is pleased to welcome its newest member, Careproviders of Blackstone Valley, LLC, a private duty agency located in Whitinsville, Massachusetts.

Search for a home care provider by town and/or service, visit our interactive Provider Search.

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HCA Welcomes 170th Member: Care From The Heart

The Alliance is pleased to welcome it’s 170th member, Care…From the Heart, a private duty agency located in Mashpee, Massachusetts.

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Follow the Alliance on Twitter and Save at Spring Conference

Spring Conference is just around the corner. If you`ve never attended, this is our biggest event of the year, and includes:

  • Workshops for your entire senior staff;
  • Can’t-miss keynote speakers like Secretary of Veterans Affairs Tom Kelley (a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient and the head of the Massachusetts VA system), and;
  • Exhibits from vendors offering the products and services you need.

In keeping with our technology-orientated Connect, Share, Innovate theme, we’re offering a special discount to our Twitter followers. Just sign in to Twitter, send us an @reply asking for the discount, and we`ll send you a coupon code good for $20 off each registration. It’s a simple and easy way to save on your registration fees and gives you a new way to follow the Alliance and its activities. Even if you’ve already registered for the conference, we`ll send you a refund for the difference.

Want to learn more about the Conference? Just visit its webpage and/or download a brochure. Don`t have a Twitter account or just new to it? It`s easy to use and free to set up. Just download the attached PDF and follow the instructions. Call me if you run into trouble.

How to Get the Discount:

  1. Sign-in to Twitter;
  2. If you’re not already following @thinkhomecare, do so;
  3. Send us an @reply requesting the discount such as “@thinkhomecare I`m attending the Spring Trade Show. Please send me the coupon code.”
  4. We’ll send you a direct message back with the coupon code.

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New OASIS-C Information on Wound Care

Medline’s recent article on Unraveling the Pressure Ulcer and Wound Care Sections of OASIS-C is available for download.  Other news & information regarding the new standards are available on our OASIS-C page.

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