The Maryland National Capital Homecare Association is the only trade association for the home care sector in Maryland. It represents both non-profit and for-profit health care in Maryland and DC including:

• Medicare-certified home health agencies,
• Private duty agencies and registries,
• Home medical equipment businesses, and related businesses that provide services to providers listed above, and
  
• Individuals with a vested interest in the homecare community.

We advocate for all home care in Maryland and DC, with the principles that:

1. Home care is patient and family preferred.
2. Home care is the lowest-cost post-acute Medicare service.
3. We are part of the solution to rising health care costs.
4. More home care = greater patient satisfaction and lower health system costs.
   

Scroll down this page to learn more about what MNCHA is doing, our upcoming events, and important resources. If you are looking for information about an Event or Training, click "Event List" on the left.

Special Announcements:

MNCHA's Annual Meeting will be September 27, 2012 at Turf Valley in Ellicott City, MD. Registration is now open. This year's theme centers around Health Reform and Technology - and how those major shifts in health care are intersecting in home care, home medical equipment and private duty.

Hear from national experts in home care and HME, network with our vendors, network with your peers in the industry and have a good time! Super Early Bird participant rates are good through June 1, 2012. Presentation abstracts are due June 1, 2012.

Click Here for sponsor registration, participant registration and call for presentations.

Download Flyer here.

LATEST UPDATE on Maryland "Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment"

Click Here to view the 9/23/11 transmittal from DHMH.

The proposed reglation requires that all patients admitted to a home health agency, hospice, dialysis center, nursing home, and assisted living facility must have a MOLST form completed.  Patients who are admitted to a hospital and being discharged to another hospital, a HHA, hospice, dialysis center, nursing home, or assisted living facility must have a MOLST form completed.  The MOLST order form is enduring and portable across the health care continuum, so the MOLST form is valid in all settings.  RSA employees need to know what a MOLST form is for and to give it to medics or send it to the hospital with the patient. Additional trainings are available. Go to dhmh.maryland.gov/marylandmolst for more information, or call the MNCHA office today.

MOLST Fact Sheet

Update Memo on MOLST Delay

MNCHA Feedback on MOLS

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