Community Health Care Services Foundation, Inc.

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the premier educational resource for home and community-based care.

The Spring issue of Focus is here with articles on how home care agencies have made good use of “member initiatives” and on customer service techniques.

Home Care Management Institute has everything you need to know to operate a licensed home care agency in New York's highly-regulated environment. It's coming to New York City in June. See Educational Seminars

Fingerprint training sessions are available now for home care providers who need to do background checks on new home care aides.

Home Care Community Forum has home care paraprofessional training available in Spanish and Russian as well as English. More than 35 audio conferences and workbooks on different topics can be found. New conferences and workbooks are produced six times a year. Home Care Community Forum.

Emergency Preparedness training for home care paraprofessionals and community volunteers is available thanks to a grant from the New York State Department of Health. Learn more

Thanks to a TANF grant from the New York State Department of Health, CHC developed interior bus advertisements (above) to attract individuals to the home care profession. The ads ran in three areas of New York State. Click here or on the image above if you would like to get started as a home care aide.

CHC has published the "Back Injury Prevention Guide for Home Care Providers." This is the only such guide designed and written specifically to help home care agencies prevent the number one cause of employee injuries and workers' compensation claims--back injury. Order Now! There are volume discounts as well as discounts for HCP members and participants in the Health Care Providers Self-Insurance Trust (HCPSIT)--the low-cost alternative for workers' compensation insurance.

Note to home care agency administrators: Providing CHC with some basic demographic information about your agency and staff will help us design suitable programs. Please complete this database update. It's a MS Word form that you can complete online, save to your computer and then email as an attachment to chc@chcforum.org. Thanks!

CHC, an affiliate of the New York State Association of Health Care Providers, Inc. (HCP), offers a wide variety of educational programming for the home care and hospice community of New York. Seminars are designed for administrators, clinicians and paraprofessionals.

Community Health Care Services Foundation, Inc.
99 Troy Rd, Suite 200 East Greenbush, NY 12061
518/463-1167 fax: 518/463-1606 chc@chcforum.org
Directions to CHC/HCP offices and the ELM Community Conference Center