National Association for Home Care and Hospice (NAHC)

The National Association for Home Care and Hospice (NAHC) is the largest trade association in the nation. It represents the concerns and interests of hospices, home care aide organizations, home care agencies, and medical equipment providers. NAHC is an organization that is dedicated to making life easier on hospice and home care providers.

How NAHC Can Help You

NAHC also represents the interests of Americans who need in-home care, such as long-term, acute, and terminal care, and any caregiver who provides them with that care. NAHC strongly believes that home care can help keep families unified and is committed to helping seniors as well as other vulnerable groups get the home care services that they need to help them live independently at home, and for as long as possible—leaving institutionalization as a final resort.

Creating & Enforcing Regulation

NAHC knows all of the angles of both state and federal regulations and provides the latest information that affects home care and hospice. NAHC helps providers better serve their patients by fighting for better regulation and assisting with professional development.

NAHC Membership

Corporations involved in the home care industry, state home care associations, schools, and medical equipment providers are just some of the members who make up NAHC. Additionally, NAHC offers memberships on an individual basis.

NAHC is the largest and most highly regarded trade association in the health care industry. Presently, there are more than 6,000 members represented by NAHC. Nurses, home care aides, social workers, and others working in the home care industry are joining forums established by NAHC so that they are able to serve the specific needs of their field.

NAHC Mission

NAHC has a mission to reverse the current preconceived notion that places many chronically ill seniors, fragile children, the terminally ill, and disabled in hospitals or nursing homes, instead of giving them the opportunity to receive care and social services in the privacy of their own homes, where the care would be equal, if not better than in an institutionalized setting.

NAHC has many goals; however, its top priority is to remain assisting people who rely on home care by protecting the government programs that fund it, such as Medicare and Medicaid, from attrition. NAHC also moves to expand these programs as well as private health insurance to help provide better coverage for those who need it.

Increasing the qualifications and the number of individuals seeking employment opportunities in the home care field and providing support to others who are already working in the field is another goal that NAHC is committed to.