BAYADA’s Government Affairs Office (GAO) offers employees and clients many ways to get involved in advocacy through our Hearts for Home Care program. One of the very easiest ways to get involved with advocacy right from your cell phone or desk is by taking action on an Action Alert. Generally, GAO will send out an action alert email to all employees, or employees in a certain state, when a piece of legislation requires support or opposition from our elected officials. Action alerts take two minutes to complete and most of the work is done for you—All you need to do is click a couple of buttons in order to send a pre-written email to your legislators to encourage their action!
During the previous quarter, GAO sent out two federal action alerts to all BAYADA office staff. The first alert was sent on February 14 and requested that employees take action to urge their officials to support a bill to counteract certain sections of the Patient Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) that would be harmful to our Home Health staff and clients. The second alert was sent on February 27, and asked that employees urge their federal legislators to support action to revise an outdated Medicare requirement to allow non-physician practitioners (NPPs), such as nurse practitioners and physician assistants, to certify a patient’s eligibility for coverage of home health services. You can still take action on this alert here.
See the results of both action alerts below. Congratulations to the Firewheel and Flame Lily divisions, which had the most participation in these two alerts! We are proud of your commitment to advocacy and your dedication to speaking to our many clients that do not have the voice to speak for themselves!
Thank you to the many employees that took action and encouraged their peers to do so as well. As you can see from the below charts, both alerts—which both impact our Home Health employees and clients the most—continue to see relatively low participation. It’s important that we share our voices wherever possible, and particularly for Action Alerts that are easy to complete. We are hoping that all BAYADA employees recommit to advocacy. During the next federal action alert we hope to see 50% or more office staff participation.
