BAYADA Home Health Care, a leading provider of in-home health care and support services, and Visiting Nurse Association Health Group (VNAHG), a New Jersey-headquartered nonprofit provider for more than 107 years of home-based health services, today announced that VNAHG intends to join BAYADA to help serve more people and to grow their collective impact to support those in need of high-quality, home-based health care.

Will Chernets, 14, of Cherry Hill, NJ, was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy at age three, but that hasn’t stopped him from being an active rower, and a participant in the BAYADA Regatta, where he competes as part of a local adaptive rowing club.

In February 2019, Fire Warden Lt. Michael Geist – a patient of the BAYADA Hospice office in Boyertown, PA – lost his battle with brain cancer at the young age of 32.  He was a husband, father of four, and a Bushkill Township, PA volunteer firefighter who sacrificed for his family and his community. Now, with the help of BAYADA Hospice, his 9-year-old son is honoring his father by also giving back to others.

BAYADA has been named to the Forbes list of “America’s Best Employers by State 2019” in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Hawaii.

BAYADA CEO David Baiada has been honored with a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award, celebrating the top-rated CEOs in the United States in 2019. The Employees’ Choice Awards program, now in its 12th year, relies solely on the input of employees who elect to provide feedback on their jobs, work environments and companies via Glassdoor. Baiada is the only home health care CEO honored, and one of four Philadelphia-based CEOs on the list.

BAYADA Home Health Care Area Director of Government Affairs Louise Lindenmeier, RN, BSN, was recently honored with the Martha Esposito Award from the Home Care and Hospice Association of New Jersey. This award is presented annually to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the home care and hospice industry.

Lindsey van Gennep, RN, a nurse who provides pediatric home health care for the BAYADA office in Manchester, NH, recently published a Viewpoint piece in the American Journal of Nursing (AJN, volume 118, issue 9) titled Afraid to Notice: On Responding to Children with Visible Disabilities.

BAYADA Client Gabby reacts to her newly remodeled bedroom while marketing specialist Natalie Simmons, contractor Scott D'Antonio, and mom Sarah look on. 

On a sunny, winter afternoon, Gloucester County, NJ resident Sarah P. picked up her daughter Gabby from the school bus and drove a short distance to the home of her parents. While Gabby enjoyed Grandma and Grandpa’s love and attention, Sarah had ulterior motives for the unexpected mid-afternoon visit. She didn’t want Gabby to know that a team of electricians, painters, and contractors had literally taken over her home, adding beautiful aesthetic touches to her daughter’s bedroom and the hall bathroom and, most importantly, creating a safer environment.

BAYADA Home Health Care announced that it received the bronze-level 2019 LearningElite Award from Chief Learning Officer magazine for being one of the best companies in learning and development.  This is the second year in a row that BAYADA received this prestigious award.