Tag: home health

Opinion: NDP government puts seniors’ home care services at risk

See the website handsoffmyhomecare.ca and take action on preventing the costly disruption of home care services in B.C. The stories people tell these days about how they struggle to support an elderly loved one are heartbreaking. We often hear about family members sacrificing vacation time or taking sick days to look after an aging parent. […]

Home Health 101: Understanding how publicly-subsidized home care works in BC

With the controversy swirling around the BC government’s planned expropriation of home care staff into 3 health authorities in just over a year’s time, we have had a lot of questions about how publicly-subsidized home health works here today. The following provides a quick overview on this topic. What is home health care? Home health […]

BC Care Awards: Care Provider of the Year (Home Health) Agnes Trylinksi

Every year, the BC Care Awards celebrate care providers who go above and beyond delivering care to our seniors. In this profile, we feature Care Provider of the Year (Home Health) award winner Agnes Trylinksi from Care at Home Services. Here’s what Agnes’ colleague and nominator Rubylyn Engstrom had to say about her: Agnes has been working […]

The future of law and seniors care

Najeeb Hassan is a partner at the law corporation Roper Greyell. Given his lengthy and diverse history in labour, employment and human rights law in the workplace BCCPA has invited him to present on emerging issues to BCCPA’s home health members on June 26. Najeeb’s legal career includes serving as vice-chair of the BC Labour […]

Recap: Home health care content at #BCCPA2018

For the first time ever BCCPA’s annual conference included a content stream specific to home health care. “We know that home care and home support are growing areas of the continuing care sector and we were pleased to include a home health stream at our 41st Annual Conference. Along with the other work which BCCPA is […]

Are preventative home health visits the answer to better health for seniors?

Could B.C. reduce overall health care costs by providing home health care visits to seniors who may not need them yet? This sounds like a counter-intuitive solution, but it may be one way to help seniors age in place. BCCPA’s most recent policy paper Health Begins at Home makes eight recommendations along four key themes: […]

Quality assurance in home support survey now closed!

Last January BC Care Providers Association launched a project to explore the development of a voluntary “Quality Assurance Designation” program for home support providers. This April BCCPA released several surveys to hear from the public and the home health care sector about quality in home support. After hearing from almost 700 members of the public and […]

BCCPA to announce biggest development in home support yet

BC Care Providers Association is expected to make a landmark home health announcement on April 9th. While followers will need to wait until next week to hear the details, BCCPA is encouraging providers to stay tuned to hear more about a development which will bring changes to B.C.’s home support sector. “We are looking forward […]

Gevity selected to support BCCPA’s home support, quality assurance initiative

Gevity Inc. (“Gevity”) has been selected to conduct research and industry outreach for BC Care Providers Association in the development of a quality assurance program for privately run home support providers. Announced in January, the home support quality assurance initiative seeks to establish a QA model which is embraced by B.C.’s home support sector, that […]