To achieve our legislative priorities, we utilize a variety of tactics to ensure our legislators are educated about the obstacles our clients’ and employees’ face and the urgency of increasing funding for home care. We are grateful to our many Hearts for Home Care Ambassadors, and office employees who have participated in these important advocacy efforts; whether you’ve met with your legislator at a Legislative Day, helped organize a home visit or legislative round table, or taken the time to respond to one of our several action alerts this session, your continued advocacy is vital to achieving our goals.
Further, many of our clients have gone above and beyond in making advocacy a priority and have articulated the obstacles, challenges, and hardships they and their families must confront due to chronically low reimbursement. We have shared these powerful stories directly with legislators to educate them on the value of home care. It is important they recognized the need for adequately funding the Medicaid, including the Private Duty Nursing (PDN) and Personal Care Services (PCS) programs, and the various Community Alternative and Innovation Waivers. Introducing lawmakers to their constituents who are most directly affected by the decisions they make is an excellent way to share their stories and make an impact.
See below to meet several of our client advocates! If you are interested in becoming more involved in advocacy, or have a client who is interested in sharing their story, please contact [email protected].
NC Client Spotlight: Meet five BAYADA clients that have engaged in advocacy this quarter!
“Without access to home care, our family would be in a dire position of having to place her health and safety at risk or choose institutionalization. I will fight until I have no more breath to ensure that we never have to choose institutionalization!” – Crystal, Caitin’s mother 
Josh, a motivational speaker and staunch home care advocate, has educated many legislators at NC Legislative Days about the value of home care.
Lacy and her grandmother were the focus of several email outreach efforts to the NC Legislature this session. “I don’t know what I’d do without my nurses, says Lacy’s grandmother, “They’re my lifeline.” 
27-year-old Monterio depends on continuous, hands-on care in order to remain safely at home.
Without reliable, highly skilled nursing care, 1-year-old Cora would have never made it home from the hospital. “I am glad to say,” her mother says, “that with the help of the BAYADA team, Cora remains healthy at home.”
