National Effort to Reduce Home Care Cuts for Medicare Services

Congress is proposing to drastically reduce Medicare reimbursement for home health services to the chronically sick and elderly. They plan on cutting $57 billion out of the Medicare home health benefit over 10 years. Home health represents only 4.5% of the total Medicare budget, but 11% of the proposed total cuts.

Home health is a key solution for lowering the cost of health care. It is the most cost effective way to care for the sick and elderly. More importantly, the sick and elderly want to stay in their home. They recover more quickly at home with family and friends. Without home health care, seniors will be readmitted into hospitals and transferred to nursing homes, both of which will put a greater financial burden on our Medicare system.

Many of you contract with Medicare Certified agencies or have family members on Medicare services. If you use this link below, you can send an automatic email signature to a national petition to stop cuts to home care. If you put in the comment section “HHSSANJ” they will know we participated. Medicare cuts today, who knows where they will cut tomorrow!

www.Wecansavehomehealth.com

Thank you and have a good day!

August ACCESS Newsletter

New Opportunities with ACCESS Nursing

In Maryland:

University of Maryland Medical Center has a ton of work for RNs of all specialties!  There are always plentiful shifts available and the cancellation rate is EXTREMELY LOW at UMMC! Complete the training below by August 17 and schedule yourself for your first shift at UMMS and we’ll give you a $50 Target Gift Card!  The training requirements are due to increase within the next few weeks, so act now to get working before the training gets more intense!”

GBMC is having their last orientation of the year in October. This will be your only chance to work in a friendly hospital with a beautiful campus and great payrates (between $39/hr – $44/hr based on specialty). They are looking for Med Surge and TELE RNs.

St. Agnes is approving profiles for work in their facility. They are looking for ER, TELE, and ICU nurses to work per diem. St. Agnes has minimum training to get started; simply signing off on their training handbook.

Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital is having a training class on August 11th from 8am to 4pm. They are looking for pediatric nurses that are comfortable floating to PEDS, PICU, and NICU.

Sinai and Northwest Hospital are having a training class on August 24th for ER, TELE, and ICU nurses. There is more than enough work to keep you busy.

In New Jersey:

We are happy to announce the NJ office’s contract with Brunswick Health Center providing Physical Therapists for the Center.  Special thanks to Steve Barody for working hand in hand with the NJ Sales Manager, Ralph Montalvo.

In New York:

We are looking for CNAs that are willing to cover 1;1 assignments  at NYU. We also need more aides that are flexible to do either day or night shifts in general at all sites. We also need HHA’s for Queens Area, Spanish Speaking HHAs, Fuganese Speaking HHA, Live in HHAs for all Boros, HHAs for Manhattan and Brooklyn Area Russian speaking LIVE Ins.

As always we have a need for Private Duty RNs for Hospital Nursing. At least one year of recent hospital floor experience is required.

Contact Steve at 646-346-1621 for info on all NY positions.

Employee News

Congratulations to Our July ‘Employees of the Month’!

Lenox Hill: Barbara Charles, CNA; Pauline George, RN

Mt. Sinai: France Moise, RN; Karen Bartley, CNA

MD: Willia Myers

HSS:  Shannon Lawrence, RN; Elsie Herard, CNA

New York: Myroslava Vashchuk; Bi Mei Lin

Jersey City: Isabel Gervacio

Newark: Sandra Peralta

NYU: Marjorie Ishmael, CNA

Westchester: Ndlovu Hlengiwe

Atta Girls & Atta Boys Awards

Atta Girl and Atta Boy awards are given to our in-office staff to recognize employees that go out of their way to facilitate the “Care beyond Compare” experience for our clients and co-workers. Each recipient is awarded with a certificate and a $25 gift check from American Express.

Here are the Atta Girl & Boy Awards for the month of July:

Leslie Kirk

Cristina Gelpi

Sonia Gutierrez

Ivonne DeLuco

Mercedes Nunez

Joelle Velasco

Christopher Gonzales

Sue Fong

Paula and Gail

Maxi

Bobby Rekka

Angelea Lawful

Virginia Thomas

Frances and Saba

Lisa Dickerson

Milka Peguero

Mercedes Cabrera

Carmen Medina

Michelle Billings

Polly Milan

Lorraine Bixler

Tamara Blagg

New York Home Care team

ACCESS Birthdays and Anniversaries

July Birthdays:

Janet Phelps

Robert Weiner

Joelle Velasco

Mercedes Cabrera

Carmen Figueroa

Eliza Agmana

Sandra Jimenez

Connie Vargas

Bradley Conway

Polly Millan

August Birthdays:

Christopher Ma

Liubov Brizhatiuk

Dena Ramirez

Gail Smith

Tamara Blaga

Tom Weadock

Jessica Davison

Angelea Lawful

Milka Pequero

Christina Gelpi

Congratulations to Everyone that Celebrated an Anniversary in July!

Start Date Employee Year Started

July 1^st Gissell Martinez 2002

July 5^th Shawndria Jackson 2008

July 8^th Connie Vargas 2008

July 9^th Mark Taggart 2009

July 13^th Angela Bragg 2009

July 16^th Michelle Manley 2007

July 25^th Lisa Dickerson 2005

July 26^th Bi Juan Huang 2004

July 28^th Cynthia Cruz 2008

Did you know?

Out of the 21 best Hospitals in the country (as rated by US News), Access Nursing Services works with 4 of them:

Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore,

New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell

And has offices in side two more of them:

NYU Medical Center, New York

Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York