Home Health Care

MARCH 12, 2025

These programs empower individuals to choose their own caregivers, addressing unique cultural needs and fostering personal connections that enhance mental well-being and the quality of care. These programs are earmarked for Medicaid recipients who require personal home care to live independently, according to Perrin.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

But the road to implementing effective pop health strategies is laden with challenges: monitoring chronic illness rates and preventing community transmission, triaging emergencies over routine health care circumstances, and executing preventive services all require providers to alter their traditional fee-for-service workflow.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 8, 2025

health care, which means that change management is crucial and may be the biggest challenge in expanding the HaH model. Overall, technological advancements will significantly enhance care delivery in the home, making it more sophisticated, robust and safe as we expand the types of support we offer.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In order to become less dependent on fee-for-service business, home health providers have begun to take on more risk. That has led to an emergence of risk-based home care models, many of which have given providers room to partake in upside and downside risk. Resilient Healthcare has used that trend to its advantage.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 15, 2021

ECH Dandelion, a care hotel operated by South Australia-based home care provider Enabling Confidence at Home, has been equipped with a technology platform for aged care communication and delivery from health IT provider Rauland Australia. WHAT IT'S ABOUT. ON THE RECORD.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 9, 2024

What You Should Know: – NTT DATA , a global leader in healthcare IT, and Duke Health , a world-class academic and healthcare system, are collaborating to create a highly interactive and technologically advanced model for augmented home care delivery.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 19, 2022

Lipitz Center for Integrated Health Care at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have launched the Coalition for Care Partners to strengthen healthcare's capacity to systematically identify, engage and support care partners effectively through existing patient portals. OpenNotes and The Roger C.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 14, 2025

What You Should Know: – Eir Partners (Eir), a middle market private equity firm focused on healthcare technology and tech-enabled services, today announced a growth investment in Porter, the only platform dedicated to connecting plan members with the resources, services, products, and education they need to live their best lives at home.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 14, 2024

GE HealthCare (Nasdaq: GEHC) announced at the end of May that Adam Holton – formerly of Amedisys (Nasdaq: AMED) – would be joining the company as chief people officer to lead the company’s human resources. GE HealthCare is a global medical technology, pharmaceutical diagnostics and digital solutions provider.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 3, 2024

On some days, Vesta Healthcare CEO Randy Klein’s job requires some preaching. I used to have a boss that referred to that as an ‘evangelical sale,’ because you actually have to evangelize what you’re doing,” he told Home Health Care News on the latest episode of the Disrupt podcast. “I My mom is a social worker.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This article is based on a Home Health Care News discussion with Lucas O’Connell, VP of Operations at AssuranceSD, Francesca Rinaldo, head of clinical strategy for home care at Sharecare, and Christina Andrews, senior director of professional services at Axxess. The article below has been edited for length and clarity.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Maxim Healthcare Group divides into two companies. Maxim Healthcare Group has divided the company’s two business units into independently operated companies: Maxim Healthcare Services and Maxim Healthcare Staffing. The company will retire the umbrella Maxim Healthcare Group brand.

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Home Health Care

JULY 18, 2024

New Day Healthcare has made Jeff Bonham its senior leadership executive and operations project specialist. He will head up the company’s strategic initiatives around Medicare Advantage (MA), and a virtual home health model to support MA business. McInnes currently serves as CEO of NVNA and Hospice.

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

Patients managing cardiology and vascular diseases expressed the highest praise for quality of care using videoconferencing (97%, virtually all patients polled, saying quality care was at least as good or better than face-to-face care. 45% in pharmaceutical companies, and 44% in large retail pharmacy chains.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 13, 2022

The yearlong study that collected information from over 1,000 agency sites found that home health agencies with registered nurse case manager caseloads under 25 have the highest star ratings for quality of care and patient satisfaction. It also focused on technology, palliative care, staffing and future care delivery models.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Rodgers has over 25 years of health care experience, including home care, insurance, consulting and employee benefits. He was also formerly CEO of OptumHealth Collaborative Care, a division of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) that owns, manages, and provides administrative and technology services to health care delivery systems.

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Briggs Healthcare

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Many aging veterans rely on nursing home care to meet their daily needs. billion for veteran nursing home care provided in state veterans homes. In fiscal year 2021, VA paid about $1.5 The Full Report is found here.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 7, 2024

Specifically, Enhabit President and CEO Barb Jacobsmeyer expressed the company’s support for the Preserving Access to Home Health Care Act , which would help stop payment cuts. We remain committed to providing our strong quality of care to United Healthcare members, if at some point they decide to contract with acceptable rates.”

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Briggs Healthcare

JUNE 28, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare This morning (Wednesday, June 28, 2023), CMS posted QSO-23-18-NH (3 pages) with the same title as this blog. CMS will publish the Nursing Home Affiliated Entity Performance Measures dataset on data.cms.com.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2022

But telehealth has also emerged as a preferred channel for routine health care services, we learn from J.D. Among people who had used virtual care in the past year, telehealth-as-healthcare is now part of mainstream Americans’ expectations as a normal part of their medical care.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Care Advantage Inc. has acquired the Reston, Virginia-based Lighthouse Healthcare Inc., a private-pay personal care company. Care Advantage CEO Tim Hanold told Home Health Care News that Lighthouse “complements” what the company is already accomplishing in Northern Virginia. “We’ve and North Carolina.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Now, being partners with the large MA plans and large hospital systems, via our Contessa acquisition, we can drive our risk-taking solutions into traditional home health and hospice, as well as increase our market size into high-acuity home care. Consumers expect health care to come to them. Nasdaq: AMED). * * *.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 23, 2022

Androscoggin announces Care & Comfort acquisition. The Maine-based Androscoggin Home Healthcare + Hospice has announced the acquisition of Care & Comfort, a home and behavioral health care company also based in Maine. It is the home-based care arm of the BayCare Health System. “We

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Training has quickly jumped to the forefront as a notable strategy for care providers to stand apart, especially as they look to other industries for talent they can recruit into care positions. Survey respondents included 97 professionals who work for organizations that provide home care.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 7, 2022

January 2022 marked two years since the outbreak of COVID-19, with the healthcare system still working to adjust to a very challenging new reality. However, these challenges have served as a catalyst for important shifts within the healthcare industry, some of which are poised to be a significant part of the 2022 infusion landscape.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 15, 2024

(NYSE: EHAB), for instance, grabbed the attention of home health providers everywhere last week when it announced that it had terminated its contract with UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE: UNH) UnitedHealthcare. Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc. That move fell in line with its overarching “payer innovation” strategy.

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Briggs Healthcare

APRIL 7, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. 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. High-quality research is needed to advance the quality of care in nursing homes.

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Briggs Healthcare

JUNE 10, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. PORTLAND, ME, June 9, 2022 – LeadingAge , the association of nonprofit providers of aging services, announces the release of the National Healthcare at Home Best Practices and Future Insights Study results. Initial top-line findings from the study include:?.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

2020 saw three factors combine to define the future of “Hospital at Home” care in a way that will become a new care reality over the coming years. The fear of contracting illnesses such as Healthcare Acquired Infections (HAIs), like sepsis, is a real and legitimate concern. Bringing Hospital-grade Equipment to the Home.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 25, 2021

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) first released its home health proposed payment rule for 2022, its nationwide expansion of the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) Model was recognized as a potential game-changer for the home health industry.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

Quality of care not as good as in-person (among 67% of older people). 45% of older people did not feel personally connected to the virtual health care provider. The study identified several key concerns about telehealth visits, shown in the graphic. 25% had difficult seeing or hearing the clinicians. 24% had privacy concerns.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 26, 2021

As legislation, engagement and positive results continue to push digital patient care solutions forward, many healthcare organizations are not yet prepared for the increased adoption of these technologies. As a healthcare provider, how can you best ensure that you’re well-equipped to handle expansions in remote care scenarios? .

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 29, 2022

IBPClin has conducted 160+ industry-sponsored research studies, enrolling over 7000 participants across 12 Brazilian states, and offers telemedicine, remote monitoring, and home care assistance for patients.

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Geek Doctor

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

2] They found that the home model met the quality of care standards comparable to those expected of in-hospital programs. Also, "On an intention-to-treat basis, patients treated in hospital-at-home had a shorter length of stay (3.2 3] Realizing the potential advantages of hospital-at-home programs, several large U.S.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

“One challenge is clarifying the distinction between HaH care and other in-home health care services like home health or skilled nursing facility (SNF) care,” Heather O’Sullivan, president of Mass General Brigham Healthcare at Home, told HHCN. This could be changing.

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Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 10, 2024

Sustainability of our healthcare system was an interesting topic at Day 2 of the 42 nd Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. Paul Markovich, CEO of Blue Shield of California, expressed the concern that “[T]he status quo is an existential threat to our healthcare system.”

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Doximity asked physicians an important question on trust: that is, whether telemedicine could bolster trust with patients, especially those who have long been under-served by the healthcare system. For the majority of patients, telemedicine is now a part of the new normal in healthcare,” the report asserts.

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