Healthcare/Home Health Aide Provider Resources

Caring-Resources.com has compiled these reputable resources for professional healthcare and home care providers.
  Advance for Providers of Post-Acute Care – A magazine that gives readers information about post-acute care including sub acute, long-term, and home health care.

American Association for Respiratory Care – A non-profit, professional organization, consisting of 35,000 respiratory therapists, physicians, and other health care professionals. AARC is dedicated to assisting persons with respiratory diseases receive safe and effective respiratory care.

American College of Healthcare Administrators – A non-profit membership organization which provides educational programming and certification in a variety of positions and career development for its members.

American Health Care Association – An informational resource advocating quality in long term care.

American Hospital Association – National organization that represents and serves all types of hospitals, health care networks, and their patients and communities.

American Medical Informatics Association – This association improves the health of the nation through developments in health information technology.

The Center for Social Gerontology – A non-profit research, training, and social policy organization dedicated to promoting the individual autonomy of older persons and advancing their well-being in society.

Center for Telehealth & E-Health Law – A non-profit group that provides public policy analysis on telehealth, e-health, and emerging technology.

Corporation for Long Term Care Certification, Inc – The Corporation for Long-Term Care Certification (CLTCC) has created the long-term care insurance industry's only third party professional designation, "Certified in Long-Term Care" (CLTC). The quality of the program is evidenced in the granting of continuing education credits by all states and a recommendation for college credit by the American Council on Education.

Direct Care Alliance – A national, practitioner-based coalition of long-term care consumers, direct-care workers, and healthcare providers with the goal of broad-based reforms within public policy and healthcare industry practice.

DirectCare Workers of Color – A non-profit organization formed for and by nursing Assistants and other personal support services personnel who happen to be people of color. Dedicated to delivering quality care by developing programs to recruit, retain, and educate a qualified workforce.

Eyes on Elders – To improve the quality of life of the elderly, disabled, caregivers, and advocates through the use of technology and the dissemination of accurate information.

Healthcare Billing and Management Association – The only trade association representing third-party medical billers.  Members process physician and other provider claims integral to the health care delivery system.

Home Care Companion – Resources for professional and family caregivers.

Home Health Interactive – Creators of newsletters including Home Care Outcomes, Diagnosis Coding Pro for Home Health, and Private Duty Insider and the magazine SUCCESS In Home Care.

Home Care Magazine – Edited for suppliers of home health care products and services. Features provide practical management and operational ideas, extensive trend analysis, industry profiles, and timely regulatory and legislative news that will impact the industry. Includes coverage of new products, trade shows, equipment providers, Medicare, DMERC, OIG, and company, government, and state association news.

International Council on Active Aging – Dedicated to changing the way we age by uniting professionals in the retirement, assisted living, fitness, rehabilitation, and wellness fields to help dispel society's myths about aging.

International Society for Gerontechnology – Promoting cultural and scientific, international exchanges between researchers and engineers of all disciplines, designers and architects, related industries, organizations, and professionals in the field of comfort, welfare, and health for the ageing and aged.

Long Term Care Provider – Provides the latest information and resources in the long term care industry.

Massachusetts Extended Care Federation – Representing more than 500 skilled nursing facilities, assisted living residences, and continuing care retirement communities, MECF is the voice of the long term care provider community in Massachusetts.

McKnight's Long Term Care News & Assisted Living – A business news magazine serving the institutional long-term care field. It reports on the events that affect the way care is delivered across the entire long term care spectrum, ranging from the lower acuity assisted living setting, to the high acuity skilled nursing setting. Included also is coverage of care in Continuing Care Retirement Communities, Alzheimer's and Special Care Facilities, Post Acute Care Centers, and Hospital based long-term care units.

National Alliance for Hispanic Health – To improve the health and well being of Hispanics.

National Association of Boards of Examiners of Long Term Care Administrators – NAB strives to enhance the effectiveness of state boards of long term care administrators in meeting their statutory and regulatory duties and responsibilities to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the public.

National Clearinghouse on the Direct Care Workforce – A national online library for people in search of solutions to the direct-care staffing crisis in long-term care.

National Resource Center on Nutrition, Physical Activity & Aging – The Center promotes active healthy aging by working to reduce nutrition risk among older adults, especially minorities with health disparities. The goals are to support quality of life, improve functionality, promote independence, and decrease early nursing home admissions and hospitalizations, through better nutrition and fitness.
   
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