Home Health Care Blog

Home care workers are on the road all the time. That’s how we get to our patients.Depending on the agency, workers can travel up to 40 to 70 miles miles a day seeing their patients with dedication. Already the reimbursement for Home care services by Medicare is under attack with possible cuts next year. So the agencies are handicapped to …

Again we have achieved the highest level of Patient Satisfaction, an award of Distinction. Very Proud of all the clinicians who work daily to provide care and the office staff who interact with patients over the phone making them feel valued and cared for. The Patient satisfaction survey  is conducted on behalf of Medicare for their  beneficiaries. On the Home …

Five  months into this COVID Pandemic and not being sure how much longer  it will last, one has to take stock of where the company is. I am thankful for all the workers who stuck it out and provided great care for all our patients. Having the right personal protective equipment available greatly impacted our ability to continue to provide …

The biggest challenge that most healthcare workers face is the fear of getting infected and passing the infection to either loved ones or other patients. From the beginning we had that as our priority to protect the staff. We made it mandatory early on to use a mask for all our visits. We had the challenge of being able to …

Home care workers have always had the role to keep patients at home and away from the Hospitals hence one of the measures of quality is Rehospitalization rates. This is especially important at this time with the COVID-19 crisis when the hospitals are past capacity with COVID-19 emergencies. At Acclaim, we have trained our staff with procedures for caring for …

Another new year and we at Acclaim keep going. It was a busy 2019 striving hard to learn all the new changes coming with the new Medicare PDGM method of billing and payment as well as getting used to ICD-10 coding. Through it all, the staff remained ever dedicated to Quality patient care. We were rewarded with announcement in October …

I know I have the best clinicians working at Acclaim Home Health Care! This was confirmed to me by the receipt of an email from FAZZI which administers our Medicare mandated and reported patient Satisfaction Survey HHCAHPS It read: Fazzi’s HHCAHPS Patient Satisfaction Award of Distinction Winner  Acclaim Home Health Care, Inc. – CCN: 227491 Congratulations, your agency is in …

As medical advances allow us to live longer, our generation is going to have to figure out an adequate social support structure to keep older people safe in their homes. Home care companies can either provide skilled care which is intermittent Nursing, Therapies and Home care Aides through insurance or privately paid Home care services. The fact is that most …

Much as I have shared my bio under the page About us on this website, I have rarely shared the challenges facing a new Entrepreneur which I was 12-13 years ago. I got the opportunity to hopefully inspire a new breed of Entrepreneurs during a Woostapreneur event on May 9th at Worcester State College, with me being a speaker on a panel. …

Margaret Gorham is both English and Spanish speaking. She started working as a Physical Therapy Assistant (PTA) for Acclaim Home Health Care in 2006. She has stayed dedicated and is the oldest continuous serving employee in the company. She has a great sense of humor,  great smile and attitude that puts her patients at ease. She was nominated by her peers …