Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Telehealth has shown great promise to bridge gaps in the areas of rural health and access to specialized care since Regenstrief researcher-clinicians pioneered a decade ago the value of telephone-based care management delivered by nurses for cancer related pain and depression, said Tachinardi of Regenstrief Institute.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Home care executives are expecting a few separate things to shake up the market in the coming years. Consolidation in home care has lagged compared to home health care. One of the reasons why is that PE involvement in personal home care has also lagged. Sorrenti, CEO of Best Life Brands.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 17, 2023

Nearly 100,000 registered nurses left the field during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an analysis conducted by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN). Worse yet, the analysis suggested that nearly 800,000 more nurses could leave the field by 2027. nursing workforce moving forward.”

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 15, 2024

1 spot is Vytalize Health, an accountable care organization (ACO) and value-based care platform that works with physicians and primary care practices. The company touts in-home care as one of its key solutions. It owns Home Instead, one of the largest home care franchises in the country.

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Home Health Care

MAY 15, 2022

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) have considerably increased their home-based care arsenals over recent years. They’ve also diversified the types of home-based care they offer, and are finally finding ways for it to make economic sense in capitated models. Source: Institute for Accountable Care.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

In a lot of cases, the home-based care isn’t accountable. It doesn’t mean that we don’t care deeply about the outcomes for patients, just that the industry hasn’t matured to have accountable relationships. Certainly, there’s accountability to CMS for quality and those sorts of things.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Before other states start to consider minimum wage increases for home care workers, it would be beneficial for them to understand what has – and hasn’t – gone well in New York. In the spring of 2022, New York legislators passed a law that gave home care workers an extra $1 per hour above the state’s $15 minimum wage.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 3, 2021

But while a nationwide mandatory value-based reimbursement system would certainly cause disruption, some operators believe the best path forward is to simply stay focused on high-quality care in the present. “I’m HHCAHPS measures would account for 30% of an agency’s score. for a maximum bonus — or penalty — of 5%.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Medtech and connected applications drive value-based care initiatives and consist of many technologies, such as: Patient wearables: Interactive equipment allows real-time data collection for in-patient and in-home care. A smart strategy adopts the technology in vital areas, measures its success and accounts for future expansion.

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Briggs Healthcare

JUNE 28, 2023

CMS will publish the Nursing Home Affiliated Entity Performance Measures dataset on data.cms.com. Both the changes to Nursing Home Care Compare and the publishing of the Nursing Home Affiliated Entity Performance Measures dataset on data.cms.gov will take place on June 28, 2023.

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Home Health Care

MAY 31, 2022

But as the home health industry changed, he saw increased opportunity on the non-medical home care side. Emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic, Ballew hopes the private-duty home care provider grows more organically than it has in the previous two years. Now you’re in the non-medical home care world.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2021

with at least one investment in a Principal company account) are concerned about a recession, with most planning to making changes to their financial health due to the coronavirus. New data on mortality by health care profession reveals that nurses have been harder-hit, too, by COVID-19 than other professions.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 26, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership In a crowded home care ecosystem, companies are constantly looking for ways to stand out. For some that means putting innovative solutions in practice that will enhance operations and care services. We need more creativity around business models.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Home care providers are now required to be licensed by the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). As part of this new licensing requirement, home care agencies will pay an initial application fee of $500, rather than the previous $25 registration fee. These new regulations took effect on Aug.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 27, 2023

About a dozen years ago when Will Putman took over the business development side of Continuous Home Care, his dad — the co-founder of the company — had an unofficial benchmark nicknamed “blackjack.” Continuous Home Care is a Pennsylvania-based home health provider with about 350 employees.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Home-based care will account for the majority of an estimated 1.2 million new jobs in the direct care workforce sector from now until 2030. PHI’s annual snapshot of the direct care workforce came out on Tuesday. The report provides demographic and economic details on direct care workers and the people they serve.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 29, 2022

Companies such as connectRN, Entrusted Pediatric Home Care, BarbaraKares In-Home Care Services, Connect Pediatrics and Electronic Caregiver made an appearance in the top half of the list. One of these companies, connectRN, is a platform meant to aid nurses and other care professionals trying to find work.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 17, 2024

“What we’ve got to do is improve our margins,” Pinnacle Home Care CEO Shane Donaldson recently said at Home Health Care News’ FUTURE conference. Pinnacle Home Care, based in Oldsmar, Florida, is a Medicare-certified home health care company that delivers services across the state. “We

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Like so many providers that survived the COVID-19 pandemic, HCR Home Care feels like it is just getting its feet underneath it again. Founded in 1978, HCR Home Care is a provider of home care and health services across New York state. at the time and she was trying to find care for her father in Rochester.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 17, 2023

As home-based care continues to be the preferred care delivery method, it follows that companies delivering these services, as well as vendors in the space, would see growth as a result. The company touts in-home care as one of its key solutions. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing companies. 5000 ranks U.S.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 17, 2022

The proposed rule validated concerns that providers have had since the hospice proposed rule and skilled-nursing-facility proposed rules came out earlier this year. “We Dombi, the president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), wrote in a comment shared with Home Health Care News.

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Briggs Healthcare

APRIL 7, 2022

Nursing homes play a unique dual role in the long-term care continuum, serving as a place where people receive needed health care and a place they call home. The 1986 Institute of Medicine report Improving the Quality of Care in Nursing Homes identified a range of challenges to the quality of care in nursing homes.

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Home Health Care

MAY 24, 2024

Cutting funding year after year has only created turmoil in the very industry that is essential in providing stable, in-home care for vulnerable Americans. To put it into perspective: It costs $2,010 per month to care for a patient at home for 30 days under home health care.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Hourly pay rates for licensed practical nurses (LPNs) at home health agencies increased nearly 10% from 2021 to 2022, while turnover rates fell slightly from last year. That’s according to the latest Home Care Salary & Benefits report from Hospital & Healthcare Compensation Service. and $45.00, respectively.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The retrospective analysis – which details a truly unprecedented year in health care – was published online by Health Affairs on Wednesday. Much of the spending growth was linked to the government relief programs designed to keep health care providers afloat during the worst of the COVID-19 crisis. Medicare spending hit $829.5

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Home Health Care

MARCH 6, 2024

Home Health Care News recently caught up with four C-suite executives to find out which leaders they believe are driving home-based care forward and why. Last month, HHCN talked to five leaders in the home care space. Home-based care is extremely personal and private.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 13, 2022

With over 400,000 data points, a new study from LeadingAge could give home-based care providers a new roadmap on how to optimize performance. It also focused on technology, palliative care, staffing and future care delivery models. It also focused on technology, palliative care, staffing and future care delivery models.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 30, 2021

The health system’s home-based care arm CommonSpirit Health at Home is headquartered in Milford, Ohio. It offers specialized home care, home infusion, hospice and medical transportation services nationwide. There’s some sort of ability to feel like you’re in control of your care and your environment.”.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has stated its objective to enroll all of its Medicare beneficiaries in accountable care relationships by 2030. Amid the pandemic, the company approached CMS about expanding at-home care services, for instance. “We Currently, roughly 13.2 We have these conversations.”

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Home Health Care

JULY 8, 2024

Providers examining the 2025 home health proposed payment rule may be experiencing some déjà vu, according to William A. Dombi, the president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice’s (NAHC). is a creature of the annual inflation update of 3%, minus the productivity adjustment of 0.5, This number of 2.5%

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

nurses are at least “somewhat likely” to leave their professions through 2023, with 31% planning on leaving health care altogether. These figures, which don’t even account for non-medical home caregivers, are compelling. So too are the results of home-based care agencies using Home Care Pulse to combat them.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Temporary regulatory flexibilities implemented during the public health emergency have given health care organizations a chance to test new care delivery methods, including hospital-at-home programs and models that bring the skilled nursing facility (SNF) into the home setting.

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Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 29, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The Nursing Home Staffing Study Comprehensive Report – June 2023 was posted this afternoon. The study also explores potential implications for feasibility of increased staffing and costs to nursing homes. million nursing home residents nationwide.

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Briggs Healthcare

JULY 28, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Examination of Staffing Shortages at US Nursing Homes During the COVID-19 Pandemic was published in JAMA Network Open on July 27, 2023. Meaning : Findings from this study suggest that staffing shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic placed strain on nursing homes.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 13, 2024

A McKinsey report predicted that up to $265 billion worth of care services for Medicare and Medicare Advantage beneficiaries could shift to home care by 2025. It has notably reduced chronic condition care plan development time to just three minutes.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 25, 2024

“Several employers have asked for clarification regarding what it means to be a worker who provides ‘health care services’ or ‘services supporting the provision of health care,’” Carolina Schwalbach, partner and co-chair of CDF Labor Law LLP’s Healthcare Industry Employment Defense Practice Group, told Home Health Care News.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 5, 2022

Now, there’s a better recognition of the value at-home care provides, and the appropriate company – VillageMD – to help support that kind of model. VillageMD] has a huge desire to expand home-based primary care,” Cornwell said at the event. You’ll have this high readmission rate home with home health,” Cornwell said.

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