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Types of Membership
Membership Benefits
Application
Requests
 HOW TO BECOME A MEMBER
The
Connecticut Association for Home Care has four membership categories. Please
read the descriptions below to determine membership eligibility.
Membership
Categories, Applications & Benefits
Provider Agency
Membership: available to any licensed home health care agency, or
federal or state sponsored home care program, or staffing agencies, or
official public health nursing agency, or homemaker/home health aide agency,
or hospice agency, or agencies providing related home care services,
operating in the State of Connecticut. Annual dues are based upon agency
expenditures as reported in their Medicare Cost Report.
Affiliate Membership: available to a
sister subsidiary or a parent holding company which has a licensed home
health agency, or in its absence a homemaker/home health aide agency, within
its corporate structure, as long as the subsidiary licensed by the State of
Connecticut as a home health agency is an active member of the Connecticut
Association for Home Care, Inc. Annual dues are $867.
Associate Membership: available to an
organization whose services relate indirectly to community health and home
care, and is not a provider agency. Annual dues are $867.
Individual Membership: available only
to individuals who are on the staff or Board of a provider agency or
affiliate member, employed by an educational institution and not eligible in
any other category, employed by an official agency not providing direct home
care services, any individual who was previously associated with a member
agency, retired individuals, students not otherwise eligible, or any
individual practitioner not otherwise identified. Individuals associated with
the Board or staff, either through direct contract or direct employment of a
non-member agency or program shall be ineligible. Annual dues are $86.70
($40.80 for full-time students and retired individuals).
MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS
Here are some of the
benefits your organization may benefit from through a Connecticut Association
for Home Care, Inc. (CAHC) provider agency membership:
Legislative Tracking & Advocacy
· Advocacy to bring relief on regulatory as well as
reimbursement issues.
· Issues that affect home care on a state and federal
level are monitored and regular contact with legislators occurs.
· Representation at state, regional and national meetings
· Opportunity to influence the direction of advocacy by the association
Monthly Newsletter and Updates Subscription
Receive
up-to-the-minute information to help keep you informed of state and national
home care issues and events. Subscription includes
· Monthly Newsletter
· Bulletins
· Memos
· Legislative Alerts
· Access to Members-Only section of website
Educational Activities
Significant discount on a wide variety of CAHC clinical,
financial and management workshops and programs targeted for agency directors, clinical staff, human resource
staff, therapists, CFOs and home health aides.
Sample topics include
Documentation/Reimbursement for RNs, Home Health Nursing 101, Homemaker/Home
Health Aide Workshops on Substance Abuse in the Elderly and Ostomy Care,
Progressive Discipline, OASIS Auditing, New Technologies in Home Diabetic
Care, Care of the MS Patient, Lawful Interviewing and Hiring, etc.
Management Consultation
· Advice provided on management issues and identification of
resources.
· Annual Compensation & Benefit Survey
Networking, Information & Referral Services
· Opportunity is
available to network with other members.
· CAHC Membership and Referral Directory, updated annually and distributed to
members and over 150 referral sources throughout the state.
· Opportunity to collaborate with association-contracted attorneys on common
interests
· Annual Membership Meeting & Exhibit Show, November 5, 2003
· Job Bank advertising discount
Active Participation
Actively participate by joining and
benefit from the work of CAHC groups:
· Board of Directors
· Standing Committees:
Business
& Finance
Community
Awareness
Education
and Program Development
Government
Relations/Reimbursement
Nominating
Policy
Quality
Improvement
· Special Interest Groups (SIGs) - These are forums
for exchanging information and discussing issues common to certain
professionals employed by member agencies.
Agency Directors
Clinical
Nursing Supervisors/Psychiatric RN’s
Financial
Managers
Homemaker/Home
Health Aide Supervisors
Hospice
Directors and Coordinators
Human
Resource
Public
Relations
Quality
Management
Medical
Social Workers
Therapists & Therapy Supervisors
Promotion of Use of Home Care
CAHC promotes the use of home care on a variety of levels
including:
· producing an annual
membership/referral directory
· attending tradeshows
· speaking at meetings and conferences
· advertising
· publishing a quarterly Physicians'
Update
Group Purchasing Discount
Benefit from large group discounts on
a vast array of supplies, office equipment and services, including:
· Beacon Health
beaconhealth.org/
· Elm Press
elmpress.com
·
Outcome Concept Systems
OCS-OASIS and OCS-EPIC products
ocsys.com/
·
Home Health Line subscription discount
decisionhealth.com/
·
CHA’s Shared Services Program
chassp.com
·
CHAP accreditation discount
chapinc.org
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Fazzi Associates programs discount
fazzi.com
·
NAHC translating service discount
·
Practice Management Information Corporation (PMIC) discount
PMIC Profile.pdf
·
Discount on selected books
Monica Godbout,
Director of Membership Services
The
Connecticut Association for Home Care, Inc.
110
Barnes Road, P.O. Box 90
Wallingford,
CT 06492-0090
Telephone:
(203) 265-9931
Fax: (203) 949-0031
Email: godbout@chime.org
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