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We are excited to announce that Executive Director of Libertana Jonathan Istrin is serving on the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) new Technical Workgroup to examine health care providers’ renewal process for Home and Community-Based Alternatives (HCBA) waivers. With over three decades in the home health care industry, Istrin has been a consistent innovator, a champion for expanding…

A Holiday Season Unlike Any Other – How to Stay Safe and Healthy The holiday season is here, but the COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t gone anywhere. It is imperative that we all do our part to keep ourselves, our families, and our communities safe while we enjoy the holidays. We know how important the holidays are to lift spirits, eat delicious…

Libertana Home Health is dedicated to supporting the communities in which it works. Earlier this month, Executive Director Jonathan Istrin made a donation to the Tuskegee Airmen Scholarship Foundation (TASF) to create an annual scholarship fund to bring local students into the STEM disciplines The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African-American airmen and military pilots who served in World War…

Back in 2018, two parents contacted Libertana Home Health for help with their paraplegic, 9-year-old son. Without hesitation, Libertana social worker Dovid Goldenberg asked how he could be of assistance. “They really wanted to do anything they could to improve their son’s quality of care,” said Dovid. So, Dovid hopped on a plane and visited the family in Santa Clara…

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have worked tirelessly to improve patient outcomes. Now, we’ve introduced a new FDA-approved wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) program to detect COVID-19 in residential care facilities for the elderly (RCFEs). Why use WBE? When a COVID-19 outbreak occurs, the virus is often present in wastewater. WBE testing allows us to test pooled samples taken…