During our Nurses Week 2019 celebration, BAYADA debuts our new podcast series for clinicians, "Healing on the Home Front."

In honor of National Nurses Week, May 6-12, BAYADA Home Health Care, a leading home health care provider and national nonprofit, has launched NursesWeek.com to offer dozens of exciting resources and events designed to recognize, reward and inspire nurses throughout the country as part of the organization’s Share. Care. Dare. campaign.

BAYADA Home Health Care recently announced the launch of a value-based PerformancePlus® collaboration with AmeriHealth Caritas, the Philadelphia region’s largest Medicaid and Medicare managed care company and an affiliate of Independence Blue Cross. The partnership marks the first performance-based contract between AmeriHealth Caritas and a home care provider. BAYADA serves people of all ages from more than 350 service offices in 23 states and from locations in Germany, India, New Zealand, and South Korea.

“This new payor relationship and partnership is an exciting and important milestone,” said BAYADA CEO David Baiada. “By leveraging insights from key metrics and working together to improve quality and efficiency, we will help support our community members to live healthier lives, right where they want to be – in their homes.”

This partnership will impact all AmeriHealth Caritas' full-risk managed care health plans in Delaware, Pennsylvania, and any potential future markets served by both organizations, and will span across all BAYADA’s services. This includes nursing and assistive care for children, adults, and seniors, as well as rehabilitation and hospice care.

With the PerformancePlus program, BAYADA will receive financial incentives for meeting quality-based goals that include potentially preventable hospital admissions, readmissions, and emergency room visits, among other key benchmarks.

“As one of the largest home care providers to managed care members in the country, our unique, multi-specialty home care capabilities provide critical services to the members of AmeriHealth Caritas' health plans," said Baiada. “We are excited to collaborate with AmeriHealth Caritas on improving client care and look forward to expanding this care model through additional payor partnerships.”

During Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month in March, BAYADA is committed to raising awareness and educating the community about this disorder of the developing brain that affects body movement, posture, and muscle coordination. The disorder, which affects thousands of children and adults worldwide, is caused by damage to one or more specific areas of the brain, usually occurring during fetal development; before, during, or shortly after birth; during infancy; or during early childhood.

Social workers confront some of the most challenging issues facing individuals, families, communities, and society and provide innovative solutions that help people reach their full potential. At BAYADA, we're proud of our social workers who take the time to understand clients and their families while improving their health and well-being. During March, BAYADA celebrates the nearly 700,000 professional social workers in the US—including our own medical social workers— and highlights important contributions they make to society. 

In partnership with Drexel University's College of Nursing and Health Professionals and in its 15^th year, the 2019 BAYADA Award applications are now underway!

The BAYADA Award for Technological Innovation in Health Care Education and Practice was established in 2004 by Mark and Ann Baiada in recognition of health care providers who have made significant contributions to education or practice through the development or adoption of new technologies.

Company founder Mark Baiada retires as president to focus on company’s unprecedented transition into a nonprofit organization

BAYADA Home Health Care appointed David Baiada as the company’s Chief Executive Officer, succeeding his father and company founder Mark Baiada, who will transition to the role of Chairman on his 70^th birthday today. Mark Baiada will celebrate the milestone by launching the process of gifting the company he established in 1975 into a newly created nonprofit organization. Believed to be the first transition of its kind in the home health care industry, this transition is designed to protect the company from sale and help to ensure that BAYADA’s mission, vision, values, and beliefs, codified as The BAYADA Way, will endure for generations to come.

As Father’s Day approaches, Practice President David Baiada shares 10 business and life lessons he learned from his father, Founder and President Mark Baiada. Read the full guest column from the Philadelphia Business Journal here: http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/news/2017/06/16/fathers-day-10-business-and-life-lessons-i-learned.html

On February 17, North Carolina state Representative Dean Arp visited a Union County man who relies on services to stay safe at home.

BAYADA office employees in Monroe, NC recently came together with family members and clients to pay tribute to three women who are so deserving of our Hero recognition. The Hero Program provides opportunities for office staff, field employees, and clients to honor BAYADA caregivers who go above and beyond to provide care with excellence, compassion, and reliability.