Healthcare It News

JUNE 24, 2024

OSF HealthCare, a health system that serves Illinois and Michigan, had a big challenge: Managing the high rate of patient readmissions from hospitals to skilled nursing facilities and eventually to home care. THE PROBLEM This issue stemmed largely from gaps in continuous care during transitions between these settings.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The aim of the partnership was to enhance care transitions. One takeaway for home health providers is the importance of working with SNFs to further strengthen SNF-to-home transitions. A big part of the reason for this is poor preparation when it comes to care transitions, according to the report.

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Home Health Care

JULY 13, 2023

Grant Avenue has strategically cemented Fortis’ position as a high-integrity, experienced provider of choice for patients and families and as a partner of choice for our talented Fortis team,” Radics said in a statement. “I Caring Senior Service is a San Antonio-based home care provider with over 50 locations throughout the U.S.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 21, 2023

Today, the landscape is crappy,” Bruce Greenstein, chief strategy and innovation officer at LHC Group, said on a panel during the Home Care Innovation + Investment Conference in Chicago earlier this month. “We’re naviHealth – now Care Transitions – is also owned by Optum. It’s not just Greenstein.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 9, 2022

The shift to value-based care. Connecting training with outcomes serves patients and staff, but the shift to value-based care means attention to outcomes is imperative as home-based care transitions to rewarding providers for the quality of the care they deliver.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) merger took another step forward this week as the two associations announced the creation of a transitional board that will usher in a combined organization.

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NASHP

OCTOBER 22, 2021

People with serious and life-threatening health conditions experience care needs that drive costs, including hospital admissions , emergency department utilization , and nursing home care. Rhode Island is another state that has invested in coordinated care for complex populations enrolled in Medicaid. The state and U.S.

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