Visiting Nurses’ CEO goes to Washington

Judith A. Bellome, chief executive officer for Douglas County Visiting Nurses, Rehabilitation and Hospice Care, joined other home health care professionals in Washington, D.C., last month to emphasize their opposition to proposed legislative and regulatory cuts in Medicare home health payments.

Bellome, who is a board member for the National Association for Home Care and Hospice, visited with U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan.