If you are looking for home care, you have come to the right place!  With nearly 140 members state-wide, the Home Care Alliance of Massachusetts can help you find the agency that will best meet your medical and non-medical needs.

While sections of this website are open only to our members, anyone may use it to:

• Learn how to choose and locate a home care agency near you
• Browse or post job openings in the home care industry
• Register for classes or seminars on the Calendar of Events
• Order publications, including our 2008 Resource Directory

To learn more about the Alliance and the benefits of membership, visit the About the Alliance tab.  If you have any questions about how to use this website or have lost your log-in information, e-mail webmaster Tom Meyer.  You may download step-by-step instructions about hwo to use the website by clicking here. 

Latest Website Updates:

Calendar of Events

• Oct 07 – Aide Supervisor & Trainer Meeting – Worcester (New!)
• Oct 09 – Monthly Clinical Directors' Meeting
• Oct 17 – Fall Membership Forum – Canton
• Oct 20 – Blue Print For Oasis Accuracy
• Oct 21 – Blue Print For Oasis Accuracy (Same program, different date)
• Oct 21 – Aide Supervisor & Trainer Meeting – Hyannis (New!)
• Oct 22 – Aide Supervisor & Trainer Meeting – Natick (New!)
• Oct 24 – Fall Membership Forum – Fall River
• Oct 27 – Connected Health Symposium
• Oct 28 – Aide Supervisor & Trainer Meeting – Holyoke (New!)
• Oct 29 – Aide Supervisor & Trainer Meeting – Wakefield (New!)
• Oct 30 – A Promise for Life
• Oct 30 – Fall Membership Forum – Lowell
• Oct 30 – Aide Supervisor & Trainer Meeting – Braintree (New!)
• Nov 05 – Fall Membership Forum – Boston
• Nov 06 – 2009 Joint Commission Standards
• Nov 20 – Coding 101
• Jan 29 – Northeast Home Health Leadership Summit

Web-Based Training

• HCIN brings Trish directly to your staff this a 90-minute seminar. The new and revised 2009 ICD-9-CM codes have been posted, and there are multiple additions, revisions, and deletions that may impact accurate home care coding and billing. (New!)
• This series provides the latest information concerning major changes related to preventing deadly infections due to multiple drug-resistant organisms (MDROs), central line-associated bloodstream infections, and surgical site infections in 2009. (New!)
• Fazzi Associates offers its Interdisciplinary Orientation Series to encourage cooperation between nurses or therapists

News & Publications

• Higher gasoline prices affect home care providers
• The Alliance's 2008 directories are available for purchase on our publications page
• The Oct 03 Update and the September Newsday are now available

Group Purchase Programs

• Click here to sign-up for our new office supply program with Staples Business Advantage™ (New!)

Job Bank

• As of Oct 03, there are 78 jobs in the job bank

Legislation & Policy

• Massachusetts Olmstead Plan - Released Sep. 12, 2008
• Pat Kelleher's Testimony on Fair Share Contributions
• New Materials about Falls Prevention is available on our Quality Inititiaves page
• Summary of the Nurse Staffing Bill Passed by MA Senate, July 17, 2008
• May 2 – Alliance Executive Director Pat Kelleher submitted testimony on the gray market in home care to Senator John Kerry, Chair of the Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship
• EOHHS Departments set out FY2009 Budget priorities to the Legislative Ways & Means Committee