Regional Digest
Regional Digest
• A state Senate committee in Wisconsin will vote soon on increasing funding for a program that helps elderly people stay in their homes, but Sen. Rodney Moen (Whitehall) said he doesn’t think the measure will win approval in the assembly. Without the Legislature’s approval, Moen told the Associated Press, there will be less funding for the program, which is in need of more money. Besides forcing some people to leave their homes, Moen said, inadequate funding leaves others without home assistance.
• Sentara Home Care Services (Suffolk, VA), a new home healthcare services provider, has opened. Residents of Suffolk, Portsmouth, Smithfield, Franklin, Surry, and Southampton and Isle of Wight counties can receive visits from nurses and other medical professionals through the new branch, reported the Virginian-Pilot and Ledger-Star of Norfolk, VA. Thirty home health staff members and 35 private-duty professionals are available.
• Gateway Health Enterprises (Martinsburg, VA), a sister company of Martinburg’s City Hospital, is going retail. Company officials told the State Journal that by April, Gateway Home Care will be providing home medical equipment and supplies to Eastern Panhandle patients from its storefront location in downtown Martinsburg. Gateway Health, a subsidiary of Gateway Regional Health System, has joined Valley Home Care, an affiliate of Valley Health System (Winchester, VA), to make Gateway Home Care possible, the Journal reported. The store will also offer equipment and supplies for medical professionals.
• A new pharmacy serving the home health needs of Spanish-speaking patients has opened in Ontario, CA. CPS National plans to provide a full range of drugs and disposable supplies, such as wound care and respiratory items, reported the Business Press of Ontario, CA. The company also offers durable medical equipment.
• Families and advocates have been working with Louisiana policy makers since 1991 pursuing the adoption of the Tax Equity Fiscal Responsibility Act for children with developmental disabilities under the age of 19 to receive care at home. But the funding has been canceled, re-implemented, and canceled again in December, reported the New Orleans Times-Picayune. And it seems the Legislature is again going to balance Louisiana’s budget on the backs of the most needy, the Times-Picayune reported.
• Canadian Health Minister Allan Rock has proposed an expanded national home care program in a letter to officials in the nation’s top 10 provinces. Rock cited overcrowding in Canada’s hospitals in the past year as one reason to expand the nation’s home care program, according to Reuters.
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