FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 19, 2024
Media Contact: Susan Franklin
919-848-3450 sue@ahhcnc.org
Carolinas Foundation for Hospice & Home Care Awarded $50,000 Grant for New In-Home Aide Onboarding Program
Raleigh, NC, August 19, 2024 – The Carolinas Foundation for Hospice & Home Care announce they received a $50,000 grant from the CCME Foundation, a North Carolina-based non-profit Foundation sponsored by Constellation Quality Health, for their August 2024 – July 2025 grant cycle. The CCME Foundation received over 100 applications for this grant, and fourteen were awarded to nonprofit organizations in North and South Carolina. Awardees were selected based on each project’s impact on health care improvement and ability to provide access for individuals and communities, particularly those who are uninsured and underserved.
Left to right: The Carolinas Foundation for Hospice & Home Care Project Director, Susan Harmuth, Constellation Quality Health President & CEO, Steven Martin, MHA, CPHQ, FACHE, CCME Executive Director, Dori DeJong, MPA, and The Carolinas Foundation for Hospice & Home Care Executive Director, Judy Penn
This grant will be used to kick start several essential year one activities, as part of an overall 2.5 year envisioned project to develop an industry recommended, standardized training curriculum and onboarding program, for newly hired in-home aides that provide non-nurse aide level personal care services. A train-the-trainer program will also be developed to accompany the training curriculum, to help ensure the quality and consistency of training provided.
The Carolinas Foundation for Hospice and Home Care will be working with several key stakeholder groups, as well as seeking input from a cross-section of NC licensed home care agencies, as we develop the tools envisioned. Once the training curriculum, onboarding model, and train-the-trainer program have been developed, these products will be piloted in as many as 12 North Carolina licensed home care agencies. The broader project will also include development of a certificate to be issued to in-home aides who successfully complete the training and competency requirements. Certificates will be issued by participating licensed home care agencies, through the Association for Home and Hospice Care of North Carolina.
The Carolinas Foundation for Hospice and Home Care is currently working to secure the additional funding needed to fully implement this major in-home aide workforce initiative. Judy Penn, Executive Director stated, “We are extremely grateful for grant funding from the CCME Foundation to enable us to begin work on this important workforce project, which will ultimately benefit licensed home care agencies in both North and South Carolina.”
The Carolinas Foundation for Hospice & Home Care is a non-profit foundation that was established in 1998 by the Association for Home and Hospice Care of North Carolina.
The mission of the Foundation is to support innovation that improves access to quality hospice and home care services in North Carolina.
Key focus areas of the Foundation include:
- Building and supporting the retention of a quality workforce
- Determine and promote the economic impact of hospice and home care services on local communities and the State
- Develop partnerships with appropriate health care delivery systems to ensure hospice and home care are included as an essential component of the new emerging care models.
The Foundation is supported by individual and corporate donations, special fundraising events, and private and public grants. The Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and is made up of twelve trustees who are educated and experienced members of the hospice and home care community.
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