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

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

There are many areas that top home care leaders believe are untapped wells of business opportunities for the industry at large. As such, leaders at companies like Home Helpers, HCR Home Care and Help at Home are leaning in.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The Fairview, Texas-based company this week announced that Bill Dombi, former CEO of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), has joined its Board of Advisors. With this as the backdrop, Home Health Care News recently spoke with G. There was a significant gap in data collection and analysis.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 29, 2024

ADHA names nursing adviser The Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) has appointed Karen Booth as its first chief clinical adviser for nursing. "I have always been dedicated to enhancing health outcomes for Australians, especially in primary and preventative care settings.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Minneapolis-based Allina Health, working with Flare Capital Partners, has launched a new company, Inbound Health, designed to help health systems and payers design and build hospital-at-home and home-based skilled nursing programs. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Home care medicine has expanded significantly since the COVID-19 pandemic, with increasing demand from patients and improved payment models – in some cases. Home health organizations have begun creating their own nursing pipelines due to this issue.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 20, 2022

Utilizing telehealth technology helps alleviate overburdened and short-staffed clinicians as much as it helps them care for their patients. Telehealth solutions also can be used to share knowledge from experienced nurses. Hybrid care is about combining personal encounters with virtual engagements.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 3, 2025

Highmark, AHN and Contessa in 2020 announced a partnership to launch a home-based acute care model for Highmark health plan members. Since then, the model has adapted to offer hospitalized patients an alternative to skilled nursing and rehabilitation facilities following their discharge.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Integrated healthcare provider Apollo Hospitals is now rolling out its connected care programme across its entire network in India. The system also allows remote monitoring from a central command centre, nurse stations, and mobile devices.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 29, 2024

Home care leaders are not just operating in their own individual bubbles. These leaders are part of a larger ecosystem of organizations that make up the home-based care space. In a sea of providers, the best leaders are the ones who are able to recognize which of their home-based care peers are standouts.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

As the home care industry embraces technological advancements and strives to enhance patient outcomes, Right at Home is poised to tackle ongoing challenges. Right at Home is one of the largest providers of personal home care in the United States, with more than 700 franchise locations in the U.S.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Delivered by the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network and Hunter New England Local Health District (HNELHD), the free virtualKIDS service connects families with a clinical nurse who helps determine the best care pathway for their children and their non-life-threatening health concerns.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Based on a media release, doctors and nurses at Hervey Bay Hospital are being prepared for the Queensland Telestroke Service pilot happening in the coming weeks. From October, residential aged care providers could start offering verbal or written monthly care statements voluntarily to their residents.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 28, 2023

A "BedSense" App provides insights into the needs of memory care and nursing home residents. A digital triage and consultation platform for use across primary and emergency care. A platform that integrates siloed data and automates manual workflows and employs analytics. Hypercare. Rose Health.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 7, 2023

While home care providers are working to mitigate headwinds – such as the rising cost of delivering care and staffing challenges – they also have their eye on where the industry goes from here. As 2024 approaches, home care leaders are embracing AI, alternative payer sources, employee-centric solutions and much more.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Home care provider Devoted Guardians has implemented a patient care navigation program in collaboration with health system Banner Health. The program employs a multi-specialty approach, incorporating certified navigators and nurse navigators to assess and address clients clinical and social needs.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

SeniorBridge is a home-based care organization that offers complex chronic care management for seniors. The organization’s care management team includes nurse practitioners, nurses, social workers and caregivers. (NYSE: HUM) plans to close shop at most of its SeniorBridge locations before the end of year.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 16, 2023

Luke's Health System, an 11-hospital network based in Kansas City, Missouri, initiated its Hospital In Your Home care model in July 2022 to reduce costs, improve outcomes and enhance the patient experience. THE PROBLEM Saint Luke’s historically has had positive patient experience scores, but continuously strives to improve.

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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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NASHP

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) published a critical report during the pandemic , finding that “the way the United States finances, delivers, and regulates care in nursing home settings is ineffective, inefficient, fragmented, and unsustainable.”

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Home Health Care

MAY 17, 2024

Pennant also acquired the Corpus Christi, Texas-based Nurses on Wheels, a provider of hospice services. “We Family Resource Home Care acquires Specialty Service Solutions The Liberty Lake, Washington-based Family Resource Home Care has acquired Specialty Service Solutions. It has over 3,000 team members.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Gracepoint Home Care has acquired the assets of Touching Hearts Senior Care. The acquisition includes the full transition of Mobile, Alabama-based Touching Hearts Senior Cares assets, which encompasses client relationships and staff.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Comfort Keepers, a division of Sodexo, is an in-home care franchise that has over 700 locations across the world. Prior to being named the CEO of Comfort Keepers, Abdine served as the global head of corporate development and asset management with Sodexo Worldwide Home Care. The organization is an affiliate of St.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 15, 2024

This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Despite the rising cost of home care services, some high-end and concierge home care agencies have been able to maintain their market footholds. After years of increasing costs, the services costs across many senior care sectors have begun to stabilize.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 12, 2024

What You Should Know: – MEDITECH , a provider of Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems, is taking a significant step towards reducing clinician documentation burden by integrating ambient listening technology into its Expanse EHR platform. Integrations with Augmedix and Nuance DAX™ Copilot are currently under development.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 3, 2022

For the longest time, home care providers were just trying to gain a foothold in the broader health care sector. Now times have changed, as home care services have proven to be an integral part of the overall system, especially during the public health emergency. Michael Slupecki, CEO of Griswold Home Care.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The acquisition of Accentra Home Health will significantly bolster Choice’s Oklahoma footprint. Following integration, it will be able to cover 90% of the state’s urban and rural geographies, according to the company. Accentra will also eventually rebrand to Choice Health at Home.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 8, 2025

During the last 50 years, we have built a health care system focused on facilities, primarily bringing patients to these locations to receive the care they need. However, we have not achieved true integration. We need to move beyond the standard pill box that most people associate with home medication management.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

It is not enough to urge someone to see a primary care provider; we have to be certain they have transportation to get to the appointment and that their work schedule or other responsibilities and circumstances do not interfere, making it difficult or impossible to attend an in-person medical appointment. This is really the future of care.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 3, 2023

" The company says the HIPAA-compliant system can help patients avoid the skyrocketing costs of assisted living and in-home care and help address caregiver shortages, and claims the virtual caregiver offers better oversight and care coordination. "It's kind of like an extra person in the house. THE LARGER TREND.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 17, 2022

starting with Choose Home. Potential cost-saving is what is attracting bipartisan support for this legislation,” Bill Dombi, president of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), told Home Health Care News during a recent HHCN+ TALKS episode. How NAHC views the in-home care workforce situation.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 21, 2023

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing and behavioral health. If you could change one thing with an eye toward the future of home care, what would it be? Transformative.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 25, 2023

The in-home care provider, which specifically serves complex behavioral health patients, has opened up shop in Colorado. Those patients are more likely to be high utilizers of services compared to traditional Medicare home health beneficiaries. It also leverages a cloud-based infrastructure and a fully integrated EMR.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Hero — a digital home-based care medication management platform — has teamed up with Henry Ford Health System. Through the partnership, Henry Ford’s in-home care patients will have access to Hero’s platform to help with their medication regimens. Additional reporting by Andrew Donlan.

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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 19, 2022

What started out as a very segmented industry is becoming more integrated, as larger companies acquire smaller ones in hopes to have more pieces of the care continuum puzzle in house. McCauley said the specialization of health care in the U.S. has actually helped the home-based care industry. “A

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Hospital systems are now making a greater effort to collaborate with senior care providers – including those in home-based care – to elevate care delivery. Key players in this larger move to work more closely with senior care providers, or to integrate that care directly, are Kaiser Permanente and Trinity Health.

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