07/13/2009
The following excerpt was taken from Walgreens HemAware, Volume #10, Issue 3
Is Quality Care A Matter Of Choice?
New Life Homecare, based in Pittston, Pennsylvania, serves about 50 patients and was founded in 2000 by Father Greg Malia, an Episcopal priest who has severe hemophilia. Malia says he founded the company because he saw the need for an advocate between the patient and the HTC. “Service had declined so much, and there was no real service
provided for the life needs that those with hemophilia regularly experience, which accounts for the overwhelming numbers of those winding up on entitlement programs,” he says. New Life Homecare, which provides all standard services, also wants “to encourage people to try to be as independent as possible from the system and to create self-sustaining ways, like creating their own businesses,” Malia says. “It’s not really that complex to have a small business with two or three other family members. If they agree to do that, we help them.” With their own business, people with hemophilia can obtain community rates on their health insurance, he says.
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